BANGALORE, INDIA: Informatica Corporation, a provider of data integration software, announced the beta release of Informatica PowerCenter Cloud Edition, an innovative cloud computing data integration product running on Amazon EC2.

Complementing this new product is the latest Informatica On Demand offering, PowerCenter Service, to enable IT and business users to remotely execute and manage data integration jobs on Amazon EC2, simply by using an Internet browser.

Girish Pancha, executive vice president and general manager, Data Integration, Informatica, said: “Informatica was an early believer in cloud computing and pioneered both cross-enterprise data integration with remote connectivity for software-as-a-service vendors and integration-as-a-service with Informatica On Demand services.

The Informatica PowerCenter Cloud Edition on Amazon EC2 is offered as both pay-as-you-use pricing starting at $24.95 per hour and traditional perpetual license pricing. The PowerCenter Cloud Edition is available on Amazon EC2 as a beta release, with production release planned for September 2009.

The PowerCenter Service is available immediately as part of the Informatica On Demand Summer 2009 release.