<s>
JumpSoft	B-Protocol
Inc	O
is	O
an	O
American	O
software	O
company	O
that	O
provides	O
application	O
performance	O
management	O
(	O
APM	O
)	O
software	B-Application
.	I-Application
</s>
<s>
JumpSoft	B-Protocol
is	O
a	O
committee	O
member	O
for	O
several	O
industry	O
web	O
services	O
standards	O
including	O
web	O
services	O
interoperability	O
and	O
cloud	O
application	O
management	O
for	O
platforms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2012	O
JumpSoft	B-Protocol
co-proposed	O
a	O
new	O
industry	O
web	O
services	O
standard	O
for	O
managing	O
cloud	O
applications	O
on	O
PaaS	B-Application
environments	O
called	O
CAMP	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2012	O
JumpSoft	B-Protocol
co-proposed	O
CAMP	O
through	O
the	O
Organization	O
for	O
the	O
Advancement	O
of	O
Structured	O
Information	O
Standards	O
(	O
OASIS	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
CAMP	O
leveraged	O
similarities	O
between	O
commercial	O
and	O
open-source	O
PaaS	B-Application
products	O
to	O
attempt	O
a	O
simple	O
API	O
that	O
is	O
language-	O
,	O
framework-	O
,	O
and	O
platform-agnostic	O
as	O
an	O
alternative	O
to	O
closed	O
APIs	O
from	O
cloud	O
services	O
vendors	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Using	O
CAMP	O
,	O
companies	O
can	O
migrate	O
their	O
cloud	O
applications	O
from	O
one	O
PaaS	B-Application
vendor	O
to	O
another	O
by	O
mapping	O
the	O
requirements	O
of	O
applications	O
to	O
the	O
specific	O
capabilities	O
of	O
the	O
underlying	O
platform	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Joab	O
Jackson	O
of	O
IDG	O
News	O
Service	O
said	O
"	O
CAMP	O
is	O
the	O
first	O
attempt	O
,	O
as	O
far	O
as	O
the	O
development	O
team	O
knows	O
,	O
to	O
standardize	O
PaaS	B-Application
control	O
commands	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Although	O
the	O
use	O
of	O
PaaS	B-Application
services	O
has	O
grown	O
dramatically	O
in	O
the	O
past	O
few	O
years	O
,	O
through	O
services	O
like	O
Amazon	O
's	O
Elastic	O
Cloud	O
Compute	O
(	O
EC2	O
)	O
and	O
Microsoft	O
Azure	O
,	O
each	O
vendor	O
offers	O
its	O
own	O
console	O
to	O
users	O
,	O
making	O
the	O
migration	O
of	O
workloads	O
from	O
one	O
service	O
to	O
the	O
next	O
difficult.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
other	O
organizations	O
that	O
proposed	O
CAMP	O
include	O
Oracle	B-Application
,	O
Redhat	O
,	O
Software	O
AG	O
and	O
the	O
US	O
Department	O
of	O
Defense	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
JumpSoft	B-Protocol
is	O
a	O
sponsor	O
member	O
for	O
the	O
OASIS	O
Web	O
Services	O
Interoperability	O
(	O
WS-I	O
)	O
technical	O
committee	O
.	O
</s>
