Symantec has made its new O3 cloud identity and access control suite available as an Amazon Machine Image (AMIs), the company's first foray into selling software as a hosted virtual machine.
AMIs are virtual machines that are listed in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) marketplace and can be deployed to AWS' EC2 cloud computing service. Often named “virtual appliances” because they can be dropped into a virtualised environment and switched on as if they were physical appliances, this mode of software deployment has become quite common among vendors. Several offer their wares for sale on the marketplace in this way.
