<s>
In	O
computing	O
,	O
CloudTran	B-Application
,	O
a	O
transaction	O
management	O
product	O
,	O
enables	O
applications	O
running	O
in	O
distributed	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
and	O
cloud	B-General_Concept
computing	I-General_Concept
architectures	I-General_Concept
to	O
embed	O
logical	O
business	O
transactions	O
that	O
adhere	O
to	O
the	O
properties	O
of	O
ACID	B-Operating_System
transactions	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
Specifically	O
,	O
CloudTran	B-Application
coordinates	O
ACID	O
transactionality	O
for	O
data	O
stored	O
within	O
in-memory	O
data	O
grids	O
(	O
e.g.	O
,	O
Oracle	B-Application
Coherence	I-Application
,	O
GigaSpaces	O
,	O
and	O
Gemfire	O
)	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
from	O
the	O
data	O
grid	O
to	O
persistent	O
storage	O
systems	O
(	O
e.g.	O
,	O
Oracle	B-General_Concept
,	O
MySQL	B-Application
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
SQL	I-Application
Server	I-Application
,	O
MongoDB	B-Application
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Distributed	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
has	O
traditionally	O
relied	O
on	O
a	O
technology	O
called	O
distributed	B-General_Concept
transactions	I-General_Concept
which	O
is	O
an	O
algorithm	O
used	O
to	O
coordinate	O
the	O
storing	O
of	O
a	O
logically	O
related	O
set	O
of	O
data	O
within	O
more	O
than	O
one	O
database	O
or	O
computer	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
CloudTran	B-Application
is	O
aimed	O
at	O
addressing	O
issues	O
with	O
this	O
approach	O
to	O
improve	O
on	O
performance	O
,	O
scalability	O
,	O
and	O
ease	O
of	O
implementation	O
for	O
application	O
developers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
doing	O
so	O
,	O
CloudTran	B-Application
enables	O
a	O
broad	O
range	O
of	O
developers	O
to	O
implement	O
highly	O
scalable	O
applications	O
that	O
run	O
in	O
cloud	O
computing	O
environments	O
and	O
distributed	O
architectures	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
addition	O
,	O
CloudTran	B-Application
is	O
a	O
manifestation	O
of	O
“	O
Cloud	O
Transaction	B-General_Concept
Processing	I-General_Concept
,	O
or	O
,	O
“	O
CloudTP	O
”	O
.	O
</s>
