<s>
Kaavo	B-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
cloud	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
management	O
company	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kaavo	B-General_Concept
was	O
founded	O
in	O
November	O
2007	O
in	O
the	O
U.S.	O
Kaavo	B-General_Concept
pioneered	O
top-down	O
application-centric	O
management	O
of	O
cloud	O
infrastructure	O
across	O
public	O
,	O
private	O
,	O
and	O
hybrid	O
clouds	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
is	O
a	O
tightly	O
coupled	O
model	O
and	O
according	O
to	O
experts	O
leaves	O
very	O
little	O
room	O
to	O
address	O
the	O
dynamic	O
nature	O
of	O
a	O
virtual	O
infrastructure	O
such	O
as	O
those	O
most	O
often	O
seen	O
in	O
cloud	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
models	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Subject	O
matter	O
experts	O
supporting	O
Kaavo	B-General_Concept
's	O
approach	O
claims	O
that	O
in	B-Architecture
the	I-Architecture
cloud	I-Architecture
when	O
applications	O
are	O
decoupled	O
from	O
the	O
servers	O
on	O
which	O
they	O
are	O
deployed	O
and	O
the	O
network	O
infrastructure	O
that	O
supports	O
and	O
delivers	O
them	O
,	O
they	O
cannot	O
be	O
effectively	O
managed	O
unless	O
they	O
are	O
recognized	O
as	O
individual	O
components	O
themselves	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kaavo	B-General_Concept
provides	O
a	O
framework	O
to	O
automate	O
the	O
deployment	O
and	O
run-time	O
management	O
(	O
production	O
support	O
)	O
of	O
applications	O
and	O
workloads	O
on	O
multiple	O
clouds	O
(	O
Infrastructure-as-a-Service	O
Layer	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kaavo	B-General_Concept
claims	O
that	O
the	O
bottom-up	O
approach	O
of	O
traditional	O
data	O
center	O
management	O
tools	O
makes	O
it	O
harder	O
to	O
manage	O
the	O
infrastructure	O
,	O
especially	O
when	O
dealing	O
with	O
the	O
scale	O
and	O
distributed	O
nature	O
of	O
the	O
cloud	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kaavo	B-General_Concept
takes	O
a	O
top-down	O
application-centric	O
approach	O
for	O
deploying	O
and	O
managing	O
applications	O
in	B-Architecture
the	I-Architecture
cloud	I-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
One	O
of	O
the	O
key	O
innovations	O
by	O
Kaavo	B-General_Concept
is	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
capture	O
the	O
deployment	O
and	O
run-time	O
management	O
behavior	O
of	O
any	O
complex	O
application	O
or	O
workload	O
in	O
a	O
single	O
XML	O
document(Kaavo System Definition )	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kaavo	B-General_Concept
has	O
published	O
the	O
XSD	O
for	O
the	O
System	O
Definition	O
file	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kaavo	B-General_Concept
's	O
IMOD	O
product	O
uses	O
patented	O
technology	O
and	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
Kaavo	B-General_Concept
's	O
top-down	O
application-centric	O
management	O
philosophy	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kaavo	B-General_Concept
uses	O
its	O
technology	O
to	O
deliver	O
two	O
Cloud	O
Management	O
products	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Delivered	O
as	O
a	O
web	B-Application
based	I-Application
product	O
and	O
is	O
hosted	O
on	O
Amazon	B-General_Concept
EC2	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
integrated	O
with	O
the	O
following	O
public	O
cloud	O
providers	O
:	O
Amazon	B-General_Concept
EC2	I-General_Concept
,	O
IBM	B-General_Concept
SmartCloud	I-General_Concept
,	O
,	O
Rackspace	B-Application
Cloud	I-Application
,	O
Terremark	O
Cloud	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
integrated	O
with	O
the	O
following	O
private	O
cloud	O
platforms	O
:	O
Cloud.com	O
CloudStack	O
,	O
Eucalyptus	O
,	O
IBM	B-General_Concept
SmartCloud	I-General_Concept
,	O
OpenStack	B-Application
,	O
VMware	O
vCloud	O
Director	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kaavo	B-General_Concept
Web	O
Services	O
use	O
document/literal	O
wrapped	O
style	O
SOAP	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Following	O
are	O
registered	O
trademarks	O
of	O
Kaavo	B-General_Concept
:	O
</s>
