The immediate availability of its new development environment called Tilana Cloud was annnouncd by Tilana Systems Corporation (http://www.tilana.com) announced. New tools enable developers to build desktop and mobile applications powered by the cloud based Tilana online CDP, storage, data protection, and synchronization SaaS platform.

Joe Austin, Tilana CEO said: "Tilana Cloud offers developers the complete control needed to build full featured applications that access Tilana real time CDP, versioning, and sync functionality that uses cloud storage independent of us as the OEM". "We believe that this approach to cloud storage presents an entirely new value proposition that can propel a whole new set of SaaS business models, as well as a variety of internal corporate business systems."

Only to companies with advanced internal development capabilities is available currently the Tilana Cloud development environment. Qualified applicants should visit the Tilana Cloud web site (http://cloud.tilana.com ).

Tilana provides functionality and developers provide UI and Storage.

To quickly roll out sophisticated real time CDP functionality in custom applications and systems needing cloud (WAN) based hosted data protection and remote archive storage, developers can use Tilana Cloud APIs, as well as automated content synchronization between multiple PCs.

Direct access to different features available in either the client (PC/Mac/Mobile) or server side (data center) components of the Tilana CDP system is allowed by Specific APIs.

The Tilana Cloud Web API contains a development interface to remote storage management functionality for file upload/download, remote directory creation, remote version history access, and end-user account management.

The Full Client API in Tilana Cloud lets developers build robust data management applications for mobile devices, PC and Mac desktops and web browsers, all with fully customized UIs and feature sets that make the fullest use of functionality offered by the Tilana CDP platform. Simple applications with fewer UI capabilities are also easily produced with Tilana Cloud. The depth of integration in custom built applications that use Tilana Cloud is left completely up to the developer.

The Tilana Cloud Storage API is a way for custom applications to talk directly to data center servers enabled with the server side of the Tilana platform called Tilana TrueCDP™, which uses Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and installs on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2000.