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List of Cloud Platforms, Providers, and Enablers 2010

Here is another list of cloud players that we’ve come across…

Cloud computing infrastructure tech&solution provider:

  • 3TeraAppLogic grid OS used as cloud computing platform by service providers and enterprises
  • Appistry – Cloud computing middleware - Enables easily scalable cloud computing in the enterprise.
  • Cassatt – Cassatt Active Response platform enables administrators to set policies to power physical and virtual servers safely on and off and pool their computing resources.
  • CloudHan - Cloud tech and infrastructure consultant, in China.
  • CloudScale Networks – Cloud enabler.  Currently in private ALPHA only
  • Joyent – Cloud Infrastructure (Accelerators), and consulting for developers and enterprise.
  • nScaled, Inc – Cloud related services such as Migrations, Deployment, Planning, Consulting
  • Q-layerprovides software for data centers that enables cloud computing, support VSAN, VLAN, VPDC, currently support VMware ESX.
  • SkytapIaaS service optimized for QA, Training, Demo, and Ops Testing. Supports VMware, Xen hypervisors & Windows, Linux & Solaris OS guests.
  • Webscale Solutions – IT Strategy and Consulting on Cloud computing. Specialize in ROI investigations of CC. a CC provider evaluation framework and Enterprise Cloud Roadmap development.


Cloud computing infrastructure provider:

  • Agathon Group – Cloud provider. Services include highly available VPS, virtual private datacenters and ready-to-use LAMP stacks. Self-service ordering. Custom development and managed services available.
  • Amazon Web Services – Amazon EC2/S3 (Hardware-a-a-S & Cloud Storage)
  • CohesiveFT – CohesiveFT Elastic Server Factory – Webservice for assembling full application stacks (contextualization, custom apps, middleware, on top of base configs) with deployment to many virtual and cloud environs.
  • ElasticHosts – UK-based instant, on-demand servers in the cloud
  • Flexiscale – Another instant provisioner of web servers with some advanced features like auto-scaling coming soon.
  • GoGrid – instant, on-demand servers offering “control in the cloud”. Deploy Windows/Linux servers via web-interface in minutes
  • GridLayer – Cloud Provider.  A service by Layered Technologies that delivers Virtual Private Datacenters and virtual private servers from grids of commodity servers
  • LayeredTechnologies - Cloud Provider. provider of on-demand hosting and cloud and utility computing solutions through its brand GridLayer
  • ReliaCloud – Deployed within a robust and resilient virtualization environment and architected to maximize uptime and performance. Free benefits include high availability, load balancing, robust APIs, and persistent servers.
  • Mosso – Rackspace’s cloud hosting service
  • Newservers – Instant provisioning of web servers either Windows or Linux
  • Plura Processing – On-demand infrastructure for high-performance computing


Cloud computing Paas provider:

  • Aptana CloudElastic Elastic Application Cloud™ featuring fully stacked and integrated PHP app engines, Ajax/Jaxer app engines, and soon Ruby on Rails app engines — ready to use and ready to scale as you need it.
  • Bungee ConnectProvides end to end tools and systems required to develop, deploy and host web applications (Platform as a Service)
  • Coherence – Oracle Coherence Data Grid for EC2 and other cloud platforms
  • Force.com – Salesforce.com’s application development platform (PaaS)
  • GigaSpaces – middleware for the cloud, “cloudware”
  • Google AppEngine(PaaS)Now support python
  • Heroku – Ruby on Rails in their Cloud
  • Morph LabsFully managed, open, elastically-scalable, end-to-end deployment and delivery platform for Ruby on Rails and Java (Jetty, JRuby, Groovy and Grails) web applications. Leverages AWS, but completely abstracts details and complexities from developers.
  • Intuit Partner Platform (IPP) – Platform as a Service (PaaS) from Intuit.
  • Qrimp – An AJAX based PaaS
  • RightScale – RightScale provides a platform and expertise that enable companies to create scalable web applications running on Amazon’s Web Services that are reliable, easy to manage, and cost less
  • Stax – Java Platform as a Service


Cloud computing based service provider:

  • CAM Solutions – Monitoring-as-a-Service(TM)
  • CloudStatus- CloudEnabler. Real-time performance trending of cloud infrastructure (currently AWS).
  • DATASiSAR – Cloud Computing technology based consulting & IT Services provider
  • Kaavo’s IMOD is an easy to use online application.  Cloud Computing Made Easy.
  • Microsoft Mesh
  • Nasstar -  SaaS provider.  Business grade Hosted Desktop service, UK market leaders.
  • Nirvanix – Cloud Storage
  • TrustSaaS – uptime monitoring and alerting service (’SaaS Weather Report’) for Software as a Service (SaaS) run by an independent third party.
  • UtilityStatus - Utility Computing Platform for SaaS charged in elapsed CPU time running on EC2.


Semantic computing Cloud service provider:

  • ThoughtExpress – Generic Enterprise Management Service based in semantics supported by semantic computing cloud to perform enterprise information processing to deliver: BPM, BI, enterprise modelling & semantic human interface without the need to program.


Cloud Security Consultants and Overlay Network Providers

    CohesiveFT – CohesiveFT’s VPN-Cubed products are virtual firewallls, switches, hubs, and routers that are used to build overlay networks in clouds, across clouds, and to connect enterprise data centers to public clouds.


Cloud End-Points:

  • XPack - a dedicated cloud end-point from Moderro Technologies.  A solid-state, power-saving, VESA mountable desktop appliance with custom desktop environment designed for web applications.

Source – Google Groups

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10 Popular “Cloud Computing” articles this last year!

Here are some of the most tweeted cloud computing articles in the past year.

Cloud Computing in Plain English – Common Craft

Gartner: Brace yourself for cloud computing | Deep Tech – CNET News

Government to set up its own cloud computing system | Technology | guardian.co.uk

A trip into the secret, online ‘cloud’ – CNN.com

BBC News – Intel unveils 48-core cloud computing silicon chip

Interesting: “Clash of the Clouds” via economist.com

Cloud Computing Ecosystem Map – Appirio

Amazon Web Services Blog: Up, Up, and Away – Cloud Computing Reaches for the Sky

Official Google Blog: The state of cloud computing

The Internet Industry Is on a Cloud — Whatever That May Mean – WSJ.com

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10 Benefits of Cloud Computing for Small Businesses

Lowered Costs – Cloud Computing offers tremendous advantages to small and medium size business in terms of reduced costs. You pay for what you use.

Scalable Storage Options – You can scale your companies storage needs seamlessly rather than having to go out and purchase expensive hardware.

Automatic Updates – There is no need for IT to worry about paying for future updates in terms of software and hardware.

Remote Access – Employees can access information wherever they are, rather than having to remain stationary much of the time.

Green Computing  - Cloud Computing uses less energy than traditional data centers which is important to many in this day and age.

Ease of Implementation – Without the need for implementation of hardware and various other components which can take several hours.  You can be running your business in almost as much time as it takes to setup a facebook account.

Skilled Vendors - Would you rather these guys manage and protect your data – Microsoft, Google, IBM, Yahoo, Sales Force and Amazon or an incompetent over paid IT staff?

Response time – Cloud computing accomplishes a better response time in most cases than your standard server hardware.

Even playing field for small startups – This allows small companies to compete more effectively with some of the larger businesses. This balances the playing field.

Performance and Durability - Run your websites and saas applications at a much faster rate with the benefits of using a much more durable service.

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Private Cloud Computing Companies to Watch: MIT

Yet another cloud computing list. This time by MIT

Name: 10gen, www.10gen.com
Year Founded: 2008
Number of Employees: 8
Major Investors: Union Square Ventures
Total Invested: $1.5 million
Key Product: MongoDB
Technology: Sponsors an open-source database that makes cloud applications easier to build.

Name: 3Tera, www.3tera.com
Year Founded: 2004
Number of Employees: 30
Major Investors: Undisclosed
Total Invested: Undisclosed
Key Product: AppLogic
Technology: Allows customers to move data and applications easily between its cloud platform and private data centers.
Name: Appistry, www.appistry.com
Year Founded: 2001
Number of Employees: 35
Major Investors: Stuart Mill Venture Partners
Total Invested:
$23 million
Key Product: Appistry CloudIQ
Technology:
Makes it possible to move business functions to a cloud while keeping existing
systems.
Name: Elastra, www.elastra.com
Year Founded: 2007
Number of Employees: 35
Major Investors: Amazon, Bay Partners, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Total Invested: $14.6 million
Key Product: Elastra Enterprise Cloud Server
Technology: Helps businesses use public clouds in concert with their internal IT setups.
Name: Enomaly, www.enomaly.com
Year Founded: 2004
Number of Employees: 20
Major Investors: Intel
Total Invested: Undisclosed
Key Product: Elastic Computing Platform
Technology:Creates tools that give customers the freedom to change cloud providers.
Name: XCalibre, www.flexiscale.com
Year Founded: 1997
Number of Employees: 26
Major Investors: Funded by revenue
Total Invested: N/A
Key Product: FlexiScale
Technology:
Helps European startups comply with data protection and export regulations.
Name: Heroku, www.heroku.com
Year Founded: 2007
Number of Employees: 11
Major Investors: Redpoint Ventures, Y Combinator
Total Invested: $3 million
Key Product: Heroku
Technology: Allows rapid deployment of systems based on Ruby on Rails, a popular way of building Web applications.
Name: RightScale, www.rightscale.com
Year Founded: 2006
Number of Employees: 100
Major Investors: Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures
Total Invested: $22.2 million
Key Product: RightScale Cloud Management ­Platform
Technology: Provides essential hand-holding for companies wanting to run applications on a variety of public and private clouds.
Name: Joyent, www.joyent.com
Year Founded: 2004
Number of Employees: 25
Major Investors: Seed investment from PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel
Total Invested: Undisclosed
Key Product: Accelerator, ­Connector
Technology: Provides on-demand storage and computing services for Web-application developers.

Name: ServePath, www.gogrid.com
Year Founded: 1994
Number of Employees: 100+
Major Investors: Funded by revenue
Total Invested: N/A
Key Product: GoGrid
Technology: Hopes to beat Amazon by wooing IT administrators with management software that behaves more like the tools they are already familiar with.

Source

'10gen - MongoDB Commercial Support, Training, and Services' - www_10gen_com

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