What new cloud technologies are upcoming over the horizon? Which vendors are energetic the most Enterprise-related innovation? SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Journal expands its register of most active players in the firmly-emerging Cloud Ecosystem.
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3PAR
3Tera – Offering what it calls “Cloud Computing Without Compromise,” 3Tera enables the provision and deployment of “scalable clustered applications in record from wherever in the world.” The interest currently has partners and is running in datacenters in seven countries (United States, Japan, Singapore, Argentina, United Kingdom, Netherlands and Serbia) on four continents (North America, South America, Asia, and Europe), with additional means in South America and Australia soon to be existing as well.
10Gen
Agathon Group – A committed grid environment that allows charitable and nonprofit campaigns to magnitude on order.
Akamai
Amazon – When Amazon introduced its virtual computing environment, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud or EC2, “to enable you to rise or reduce position within action, not hours or being,” it singlehandedly brought Cloud Computing to the very forefront of communal awareness by using Web military to present what it called resizable nickname position in the cloud.” EC2 runs within Amazon’s proven network infrastructure and datacenters and allows customers to pay only for what they use (there is no smallest fee).
Apache Hadoop
Appirio – Offers army and yield to accelerate the adoption of on-plea solutions, and newly open $5.6 million of financing in a Series B around led by Sequoia Capital.
Appistry – As a band that positions itself valiantly “At the convergence of Grid Computing, Virtualization and SOA” Appistry offers a grid-based application platform that makes it very relaxed to climb-out CPU- and facts-intensive applications across a virtualized grid of commodity servers. Unlike traditional grid goods based on heritage scheduler technology, the band’s robust “fabric″ architecture has no only point of breakdown and “is well right for severe transaction processing (XTP), software-as-a-mass (SaaS), cloud computing, and other numbers- and CPU-intensive applications.”
AppNexus
Apprenda – The sincere warrant of software-based computing was realized when software developers could halt focusing on interfacing frankly with hardware, and instead focus on the skill of their software, say the founders of Apprenda – the circle behind SaaSGrid, an operating usage for shop and deploying Software as the Service applications, and a platform for conducting Software as a Service custom.
Aptana – Aptana has lately beta-free Aptana Cloud, which it says “is architected to compliment Cloud infrastructure providers like Amazon, Google, Joyent and others.” Targeted at brisk development, in particular web applications that essential to dimension hastily (think Facebook applications etc.), Aptana cloud plugs into the Aptana IDE.
AT&T – AT&T bankrupt into the cloud affair in August 2008 with the universal launch of what it calls AT&T Synaptic Hosting – described as “a next-generation advantage computing sacrament with managed networking, wellbeing and storeroom for businesses.”
Bluewolf – An important giver of on-exact software deployment military, Bluewolf offers remote catalog management and recently announced its “Arcade” cloud storage offering that allows users economically to deposit a near unlimited number of stores of all sizes through the Salesforce interface.
Boomi
Box-Net
Cassatt – As early as 2004 Cassatt, led by prophetic CEO Bill Coleman (the ‘B’ in BEA Systems), was outlining a roadmap to convey on the promise of automating IT operations for on-need computing. Currently its slant, Cloud Computing-shrewd, is to focus not on municipal or outdoor clouds but on ‘Internal Clouds′ since exterior cloud computing but may be ruled out due to lack of SLA restrict, security, and compliance, where Cassatt contends there is an alternative: a domestic Utility Computing architecture springy the same simplicity and economies-of-ascend as an outside PaaS cloud. Definitely a circle to survey.
Cisco – By advantage of its topical acquisitions, most significantly WebEx and PostPath, Cisco is firmly on its way to joining the Cloud Crowd. “We are believers in the cloud-based method ensign for certain types of navy in particular inter-group collaboration army, and that is why we got WebEx and now PostPath,” Charles Carmel, Cisco’s associate leader of corporate development, told Red Herring in August 2008.
Citrix
Clouϱ Analytics – Offers what calls “the trade’s first genuinely on-request analytics platform” – the brainchild of CTO Scott Weiner, who views the Cloud as the decisive figures warehouse in the sky.
Cloudera – Recently co-founded by previous Googler Christophe Bisciglia and others, Cloudera help its customers induct, configure and run Hadoop for large-scale numbers processing and scrutiny.
Cloudscale – Cloudscale’s matchless patent-pending cloud dataflow technology “automatically provides the parallelism and scalability vital to name anything from one-off special analytics agents up to the most demanding live analytics applications required by the world′s primary organizations in business, web, skill and government.”
Cloudworks – The goal of Cloudworks is to allocate small and mid-bazaar companies to outsource all their computers, software, and figures. Completely web-based, it workings like Salesforce or Hotmail – a circle’s employees can log in through a web browser to reach their desktop, server, software, files, message…Everything.
Coghead
CohesiveFT – As the giver of what it calls ‘Elastic Server On-Demand′ – designed at “enabling customers to figure and supervise applications for virtualized infrastructure and cloud computing,” CohesiveFT’s Elastic Server Platform allows users to assemble and position servers to Cloud Computing Platforms “in record.” The troupe likes to think of Elastic Server as a Great Enabler, “allowing you to packet your apps for prepare time, and do it all by manually.”
Cordys – The Process Factory by Cordys is an austere, steadfast and assured emulsion for any one to establish MashApps industry processes from the Cloud – purely by addition and matching standard business applications such as Google apps and commercially unfilled services. MashApps can be made in report, without any coding. This tool can do for cloud application development environments what Visual Basic did for Windows – steady, easy, and efficient to polish and position adapted applications.
Dataline – Provides cloud computing opinion and expertise to the superior FSIs (i.e. Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, etc) and bundles commercial cloud computing offerings in a way that meets Federal patron requirements. Although not a product vendor, the role the business fills as a mid-level Federal System Integrator is crucial to the adoption of these technologies by the broadcast sector.
Dell
Desktoptwo – This “Cloud desktop” offering from Sun Global Partner Sapotek describes itself as “your home in the cloud” and already claims to have users in 120 countries and a vibrant commune.
ElasticHosts
Elastic Drive – see Enomaly
Elastra – Styling itself as a source of “Elastic Computing,” Elastra offers to “target, arrange & supervise database and application infrastructure in the Cloud in minutes – all with the click of a knob.” Dedicated to provide companies house applications with a way radically to innovate the way they result their goods and deliver them on IT infrastructure, Elastra′s aim is to help the guests “unlock the rate of cloud computing by using virtualized hardware environments with cloud-provisioned database and infrastructure software that are clearly configurable and do not compel scripting, retort elastically to altering cargo and are delivered in the cloud with meter-based pricing.”
EMC – When creating a Cloud Computing rupture within the circle in February 2008, EMC CEO Joe Tucci delared that 85 percent of data will be managed in what he called “big, safe information repositories in the Internet ’sky,’ so to talk. We’re [chatting] cloud computing…”
Engine Yard – As a group fanatical to “furthering innovation in Ruby, Rails and cloud computing,” Engine Yard offers Rails-alert 24/7 operations backing on top of great infrastructure to companies in search of a silky route from 100 users to 100,000 users. In July 2008 the company closed $15 million of Series B financing led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), which included participation from Amazon.com.
ENKI – The company aim is “to tolerate you to focus on delivering your application to your customers while we handle the operations area: providing computing as a steadfast tune.”
Enomaly – see Enomalism
Enomalism – Founded in November 2005 by Enomaly Inc, Enomalism – a so-called “Elastic Computing″ platform – focuses on “solving the detriment and complexity for enterprises that run large official attendant infrastructures.” Enomalism’s essence of cloud computing simplifies IT management as well as increases efficiencies of order assets. “IT administrators no longer basic to mount software and manually set up all the systems, but may instead use management software do this. Resources are worn more efficiently because computers can be consolidated to achieve more tasks. The ensures that underutilized systems do not sit idle.”
EucalyptusSLA@SOI
FlexiScale – The brainchild of CEO Tony Lucas, FlexiScale is a bendy, scalable, automated hosting platform (”Cloud Computing On-Demand″).
Force.com – see Salesforce.com
Fortress ITX
G.ho.st
GigaSpaces – Founded in 2000, with offices in the US, Europe and Asia, GigaSpaces allows businesses and developers “to predictably degree on-line systems under any height petition, wellbeing honestly-time performance under any figures processing charge and seamlessly pull the economies of degree presented by virtual computing environments such as clouds and grids.”
Google – Without a misgiving ‘the elephant in the cloud’ – According to this well-researched piece, Google filed as long ago as February 2006 a provisional patent application with 91 different numbered claims that arguably makes it fair that Google has a multi-year shock in cloud computing.
Hadoop – See Apache Hadoop
Heroku – According to the San Francisco-based troupe’s founders, “Heroku means never belief about hosting or servers again.” In May 2008 they raised a $3 million round of funding for their online deployment practice for Ruby on Rails apps. Heroku is a Y Combinator start-up.
Hosting.com
HP
Hyperic – Founded in 2004, Hyperic provides broad, relaxed-to-use monitoring and management software for all types of web applications, counting hosting it in the cloud via its CloudStatus console presently in beta.
IBM – IBM approaches cloud computing “from the inside out″ as it describes it. This means that Big Blue’s focus is on building the most locked, effective and pliant infrastructure for nowadays’s organizations, and building the cloud experience as part of that infrastructure. With more than a dozen Blue Cloud Computing Centers worldwide, IBM provides cloud army, ready for use, planned to help organizations in proving a cloud experience for their constituents. In addition, IBM is the ruler troupe to help encourage an organization’s concealed cloud, or influence any of the many, IT military that are nowadays provided by IBM through cloud computing, like Capacity on Demand, or the IBM Information Protection Services.
ICloud
IMOD
Interoute – Europe’s principal and most later fibre optic interact, the Interoute platform operates as effectively Europe’s core privately owned cloud.
ITricity
Joyent – The Joyent platform, which “enables teams effectively to communicate and collaborate with message, calendaring, contacts, troop division, and other common applications,” already serves billions of Web pages every month and helped LinkedIn range to 1 billion page views per month. Self-described as an “On-Demand Computing” source, Joyent has urbanized, built and scaled some of the first Ruby on Rails applications – and as an answer, urbanized a world-order infrastructure, a methodology around how to organize and climb (both up and down) Rails applications.
Kaavo – provides a platform for operation distributed applications in the clouds. Kaavo’s middle effect, Infrastructure and Middleware on Demand (IMOD), “makes it easier for individuals and businesses to employ on-call infrastructure and middleware and run lock and scalable web army and applications.”
Keynote Systems – Long a player in the SaaS distance, Keynote lately announced the chance of its cloud infrastructure and is gift any Web group nervous with their end users’ experience unbound access to KITE (Keynote Internet Testing Environment), its significance for hard and analyzing the performance of Web applications across the Internet cloud. With a Web application’s performance depending on a form of clouds’ infrastructures, ad servers and other third bash please, probable pitfalls grow exponentially and Keynote contends understandably that “it’s more important than ever for Internet companies to analyze and degree applications to guarantee a greater end consumer experience.” With KITE, companies have liberated access to Keynote’s cloud infrastructure and a tool to check and supervise their applications from cities all over the world, portion dull performance issues.
Layered Technologies – Offers virtualization and cloud computing systems.
LongJump – The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) blend that LongJump the group described offers as “an on-exact platform for creating and delivering contract applications to survive facts, streamline collaborative processes and impart actionable breakdown.” The circle claims that the LongJump platform has “large skin around security access, records scrutiny and visualization, and means automation – all on the web.”
Meeza – Qatar-based, Meeza is the only Cloud Services Provider within Middle East North Africa region.
Microsoft – According to this recent section – “Microsoft’s Cloud Vision is Coming Together” – Redmond’s Cloud Platform sight is impending together. “Look for more information at PDC2008!” writes Microsoft Developer & Platform Evangelist John C. Stame.
MorphExchange
Ning
Nirvanix – Provider of an enterprise cloud gift that offers companies with more than 5TBs of data a warmly scalable storeroom and release platform, Nirvanix has already raised more than $18 million in funding from world-rank investors with Intel Capital. The troupe’s customers contain Fortune 50, media and entertainment and innovative Web 2.0 customers.
OpSource – Delivers a perfect Web operations mixture for software as a benefit and web companies.
OTOY
Parallels – Founded in 1999, Parallels optimizes computing by providing virtualization and automation software to businesses and repair providers across all chief hardware, running systems, and virtualization platforms. Parallels is working strongly with a group of ISVs and examine providers to allocate them to erect their cloud computing and software-as-a-overhaul offerings, summit the desires of end-user organizations of all volume. Parallels technology is also worn by large enterprises creating their own in-house clouds.
ParaScale – “Cloud storeroom” involves clustering tens to hundreds of servers together to act as one giant profile repository with colossal amount and match throughput for a range of applications. ParaScale’s software “enables the enterprise or advantage giver to body vast storage pools on commodity hardware at an affordable charge.”
Platform Computing – Founded in 1992, Platform is a start and generally cranium in HPC (high-performance computing) and takes the landscape that there is an intersection between grid computing and cloud computing in that both cloud and grid offer an architecture that masks the complexity of running thousands of commodity servers from their users.
Q-layer
Qrimp
Quantivo – Claims to be “revolutionizing the Business Intelligence (BI) world by combining Cloud Computing with an innovative and unproved ‘Affinity Analytics’ technology.” Company lately won the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal’s prestigious Emerging Technology Award in the Cloud Computing kind.
Quickbase
SalesForce.com – has a toolkit for cloud computing development, Force.com.
Rackspace
Reservoir
RightScale – The guests’s main present is an automated cloud computing management approach that helps companies construct scalable web applications running on Amazon‘s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Through its platform and consulting military it “enables companies to create scalable web solutions running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that are unfailing, cool to direct, and detriment excluding.”
Rollbase
rPath – Founded in 2005, rPath is pioneering a loom for application distribution and management known as “virtual appliances” – which in jaunt are a key enabler of cloud computing. “Virtual appliances eliminate the hassles of the common object operating system and boundless vendors and customers to focus on application merit instead of technology management,” says the band. Virtual appliances eliminate the time-consuming mission of installing, configuring and maintaining neurosis application environments.
Salesforce.com
ServePath/GoGrid – Launched in 2006 as ServePath’s hottest progress opportunity, GoGrid, claims the business, “delivers factual ‘Control in the Cloud′ by combining many of the typical skins of committed attendant or managed hosting with the flexibility and scalability of cloud attendant hosting.” In other language, with GoGrid customers can grow production servers in frank time to converge pressuring lacking touching their uptime. Provisioning and de-provisioning of servers is all done via the Internet.
SIMtone – Durham, NC based SIMtone has developed and commercialized a ‘Universal Cloud Computing Platform’ that allows group operators and businesses “to hoard, manage and instantly provision any cloud-hosted navy, and ubiquitously serve them to nought-stir terminals that can be standalone, low sacrifice hardware appliances, or software terminals usable via browsers or on PCs, slight clients and movable devices.”
Skytap – Seattle-based Skytap’s goal is “to make quota up virtual machinery over the internet as ubiquitous as delivering HTML to a browser.” Its initial effect present, Skytap Virtual Lab, is a hosted, on-order mass for virtual lab automation and management.
SmugMug – Founded 5 days ago, SmuMug calls itself “the best in photosharing” since it offers unlimited storage and supplies backing copies of each photo in various datacenters. With more than 315,000 paying customers already, and 288,000,000 photos, SmugMug is a QED of cloud computing.
SOASTA – No one who heard SOASTA lecture at AJAXWorld in 2007 about best practices in AJAX hard will be startled to examine that Web testing is also at the feeling of its CloudTest offering, a Cloud-based testing blend “built on the cloud to permit application testing in the cloud.”
StrikeIron IronCloud
Sun – In July 2008, David Douglas was named Senior Vice President of Network.com, Sun’s offering based on the Sun Grid shoot. Douglas is now the head of Sun’s overall cloud computing initiative and his group now newscast promptly to Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz. “”We persist to see vast potential in the cloud legroom,” commented Douglas as the news of his appointment was announced.
Terremark – Offering ‘Enterprise Cloud’ services that “let you regulate a reserve pond of processing, storage and networking and allow you to deploy server volume on exact,” Terremark as time of experience running knotty, mission crucial infrastructures and applications for primary companies around the world.
The GridLayer – see Layered Technologies
Virtual Workspaces
VMware – A virtualization guide and pioneer, VMware has effectively delivered the technology that makes nowadays’s clouds viable. With the invasive presence of VMware in many accounts, enterprises are leveraging their virtualization infrastructure to build home clouds, and leverage technology like VMotion to loosen resources for DR or hardship and development to outer clouds, as wanted. Its vCloud initiative, says the company, “offers users of all sizes this robust and reliable platform, brace for any application on or off spot, and worthy from over 100 service providers worldwide who cede the cloud on VMware.”
