OpenLogic, the provider of ultra-agnostic PaaS CloudSwing, announced the release of several critical improvements to its still-emerging but popular platform.

The first addition, which the company says is unique to its solution, is native load balancing on multiple clouds: there’s support for Amazon Web Services and Rackspace for now. This feature comes with application-level monitoring across all deployments, and the ability to run different pools of instances.

It seems that OpenLogic has managed to do a good job at fleshing out CloudSwing’s Rackspace support, which was announced not two months ago.  Also new to the platform, is the ability to scale application and database tiers independently from each other, just as it is with storage and compute. This is particularly significant when coupled with the added support for remotely hosted MySQL databases such as Amazon RDS.

“It [the cloud DB functionality] includes two new LAMP stacks out-of-the-box: one that uses Amazon RDS for the data store and another that works with hosted or remote MySQL instances.  These new stacks enable CloudSwing users to easily use Amazon RDS and other hosted MySQL services in their own customized technology stacks.”

We’ve noted how OpenLogic’s vision of an open-source and fully configurable PaaS seems to be working well for the company. The progress OpenLogic has made so far is rather positive: sales increased by 45 percent in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011.

CloudSwing was launched late last year and has already gained momentum. In addition to the figures its operator posted, the amount of updates and tweaks rolled out so far provide another indication of OpenLogic’s willingness to invest – and the reason behind this motive. This latest boost directly addresses the two biggest drivers in IT today.