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List of Cloud Platforms, Providers, and Enablers 2010

Feb 25th

Posted by cloudtweaks in Blogs

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

Cloud computing infrastructure tech&solution provider:

  • 3Tera – AppLogic 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-layer – provides software for data centers that enables cloud computing, support VSAN, VLAN, VPDC, currently support VMware ESX.
  • Skytap – IaaS 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 Cloud – Elastic 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 Connect – Provides 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 Labs – Fully 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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Microsoft and the National Science Foundation Enable Research in the Cloud

Feb 5th

Posted by cloudtweaks in Business

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Agreement will offer free access to new computational and collaborative services to accelerate scientific discovery for research communities.

REDMOND, Wash., and ARLINGTON, Va. — Feb. 4, 2010

Microsoft Corp. and the National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced an agreement that will offer individual researchers and research groups selected through NSF’s merit review process free access to advanced cloud computing resources. By extending the capabilities of powerful, easy-to-use PC applications via Microsoft cloud services, the program is designed to help broaden researcher capabilities, foster collaborative research communities, and accelerate scientific discovery. Projects will be awarded and managed by NSF. More details about funding opportunities are available at http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=CISE.

Microsoft will provide cloud computing research projects identified by NSF with access to Windows Azure for a three-year period, along with a support team to help researchers quickly integrate cloud technology into their research. Windows Azure provides on-demand compute and storage to host, scale and manage Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft datacenters. Microsoft researchers and developers will work with grant recipients to equip them with a set of common tools, applications and data collections that can be shared with the broad academic community, and also provide its expertise in research, science and cloud computing.

“Cloud computing can transform how research is conducted, accelerating scientific exploration, discovery and results,” said Dan Reed, corporate vice president, Technology Strategy and Policy and eXtreme Computing at Microsoft. “These grants will also help researchers explore rich and diverse multidisciplinary data on a large scale.”

Today, scientists are operating in a world dominated by data, thanks to increasingly inexpensive sensors and a growing trend toward collaborative data projects. Analyzing and synthesizing this mass of data remain a challenge. The goal of the new program is to make simple yet powerful tools available that any researcher can use to extract insights by mining and combining diverse data sets.

“We’ve entered a new era of science — one based on data-driven exploration — and each new generation of computing technology, such as cloud computing, creates unprecedented opportunities for discovery,” said Jeannette M. Wing, assistant director for the NSF Computer and Information Science directorate. “We are working with Microsoft to provide the academic community a novel cloud computing service with which to experiment and explore, with the grander goal of advancing the frontiers of science and engineering as we tackle societal grand challenges.”

About the National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. In fiscal year (FY) 2010, its budget is about $6.9 billion. NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 universities and institutions. Each year, NSF receives over 45,000 competitive requests for funding, and makes over 11,500 new funding awards. NSF also awards over $400 million in professional and service contracts yearly.

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