ATLANTA, USA: StarPound Technologies, an open source solution provider has announced its deployment of the complete StarPound CORE open source platform in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

The move to Amazon EC2 allows StarPound to offer its customers significant economies of scale and faster deployment of enterprise telephony and BPM technology. The principles of open source and free continue to be the focus of StarPound’s solution strategy.

"For several years now, we've had the view that voice applications and BPM are the next frontier in the cloud computing space,” said Scott Burkett, chief operating officer, StarPound Technologies.

Any business or call center searching for non-traditional, PBX, call center or BPM software that offers high-performance coupled with significant cost savings, will find that solution with StarPound by deploying its solutions in the Amazon EC2 environment.

“Businesses turn to StarPound for our dedication to open source platforms and our commitment to driving key infrastructure costs as close to zero as possible,” added Burkett.

Further he added, by leveraging Amazon Web Services, we gain access to a flexible, scalable and reliable cloud computing environment that furthers our mission in the marketplace.

“We are pleased that StarPound is able to extend the functionality of Amazon Web Services to their customers,” said Steve Rabuchin, director of Developer Relations and Business Development for Amazon Web Services. “We’ve created Amazon Web Services for companies like StarPound to extend highly scalable, reliable and cost effective options to their customers.”

Alan Taetle, partner with Noro-Moseley Partners, an investor in StarPound Technologies, agrees. “From our perspective, the combination of on-demand cloud computing, open source software, and multi-media distribution of voice and data offers some compelling advantages over traditional business technology approaches. We continue to be excited about StarPound’s positioning, as it sits in the center of this convergence."