Cloud computing is gaining widespread adoption, and for good reason. Lower costs, increased flexibility and the ability to scale IT resources up or down as needed are among the primary benefits that have a majority of CIOs are leveraging cloud. This paper highlights companies’ confidence level in deploying custom Java applications in the cloud. Learn how to accelerate application deployment and transition to cloud computing by virtualizing applications, implementing a lightweight development framework for quickly building modern applications and deploying them in a lightweight runtime environment that is ideally suited for virtual environments.