Author: Rene Buest

Description

Founded in 2005, SoftLayer provides global, on-demand data center and hosting services from facilities across the U.S. We leverage best-in-class connectivity and technology to innovate industry-leading, fully automated solutions that empower enterprises with complete access, control, security, and scalability. With this insightful strategy and our peerless technical execution, they have created the truly virtual data center—and made traditional hosting and managed/unmanaged services obsolete.

Category

• Infrastructure as a Service

Products

• CloudLayer
• CloudLayer Computing
• CloudLayer CDN
• CloudLayer Storage

Website

• http://www.softlayer.com

Description

AppZero™ leads the next wave of virtualization in which applications are decoupled from operating systems.

Encapsulating an application and its dependencies in a pre-integrated, self-contained virtual application appliance (VAA), AppZero makes it possible to deliver any application on any server, in time that approaches zero.

VAAs require zero operating system (zeOS) to run optimally on: industry standard hardware (typically a server); in a virtual machine; or in the cloud. This approach dramatically simplifies software deployment, operation, and management by freeing IT from the need to resolve complex OS and VM compatibility issues, library dependencies, or undesirable interactions with other applications.

Application lifecycle automation also becomes far more flexible, less prone to error, and workloads can be provisioned to scale or de-scale to any machine, anywhere. The resultant elastic datacenter is able to seamlessly utilize any cloud, eliminating cloud service lock-in.

Pioneer of the virtual application appliance, AppZero software creates, controls, and maintains VAAs.

The company envisions a world in which VAAs are the standard for frictionless, real-time automation of software distribution and on-going application maintenance. Driving management complexity and the costs associated with that complexity toward zero, the VAA approach makes a compelling argument for our enterprise and ISV clients in this economic environment.

Category

• Infrastructure as a Service

Products

• Virtual Application Appliances (VAA) Management

Website

• http://www.appzero.com/

Description

Google Apps offers simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools for any size business – all hosted by Google to streamline setup, minimize maintenance, and reduce IT costs.

It’s providing independently customizable versions of several Google products under a custom domain name. It features several Web applications with similar functionality to traditional office suites, including: Gmail, Google Groups, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs and Sites. (source: Wikipedia)

Category

• Software as a Service

Products

• Google Apps (Free)
• Google Apps for Business
• Google Apps for Education
• Google Apps for Government
• Google Apps for Nonprofit

Website

• http://www.google.com/apps

Description

RightScale is the leader in cloud computing management. Founded in 2006, the company offers a fully automated management platform that delivers the scalable, cost-effective, on-demand power of cloud computing, while providing complete IT control and transparency. The web-based RightScale Cloud Management Platform is available in a range of editions and solution packs. To date, thousands of deployments and over 1,000,000 servers have been launched on RightScale for leading companies such as Animoto, Playfish, Sling Media and TC3. RightScale is based in beautiful Santa Barbara, California.

Category

• Cloud Computing Management

Products

• Cloud Management Platform

Website

• http://www.rightscale.com

Description

The Cloud.com approach to cloud computing is to help organizations quickly and easily build, manage, and deploy private and public clouds. Extending beyond individual virtual machine images running on commodity hardware, the Cloud.com CloudStack provides an integrated software solution for delivering virtual data centers as a service – delivering all of the essential components used to build, deploy, and manage multi-tier and multi-tenant cloud applications in a simple to install software package. Because Cloud.com focuses on removing the complexity of cloud infrastructure by integrating all of the key components, customers realize instant efficiencies and without the overhead of integration, professional services, and complex deployment schedules. With the CloudStack as the foundation for infrastructure clouds, data center operators can quickly and easily build cloud services within their existing infrastructure to offer on-demand, elastic cloud services. Cloud.com believes that cloud computing is a major shift and an entirely new paradigm in data center computing. Cloud computing delivers higher efficiency, limitless scale and faster deployment of new services and systems to the end-user, thereby changing the economics of the data center by shifting the delivery of IT resources to an on-demand model.

Category

• Infrastructure as a Service

Products

• CloudStack Community Edition
• CloudStack Enterprise Edition
• CloudStack Service Provider Edition

Website

• http://cloud.com

Description

Salesforce.com is an enterprise cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco, USA that distributes business software on a subscription basis. Salesforce.com hosts the applications offsite. It is best known for its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) products and, through acquisition, has expanded into the “social enterprise arena.” (source: Wikipedia)

Category

• Software as a Service
• Platform as a Service

Products

• Sales Cloud
• Service Cloud
• Chatter
• Jigsaw
• Database.com
• Heroku
• Remedyforce
• Force.com

Website

• http://www.salesforce.com

Description

GoGrid is the world’s largest pure-play Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider specializing in Cloud Infrastructure solutions. Currently powering over ten thousand customers globally, they make complex infrastructure easy by enabling businesses to revolutionize their IT environments with the Cloud. In just minutes, GoGrid customers can deploy and begin managing existing or new applications and workloads on their proven, secure and reliable hosted cloud platform.

GoGrid has a long history of managing IT infrastructure and introduced one of the world’s first cloud computing platforms in March of 2008. With a proven track record of innovation, GoGrid offers one of the highest performing, standards-based, flexible and robust cloud solutions in the market. their agile product development process allows us to quickly respond to market opportunities, deliver innovation and address customer requests with market disruptive technology.

A core part of GoGrid’s customer experience is providing a world class platform for infrastructure management. They believe that deploying and managing infrastructure should be a familiar and seamless process. With their award-winning, fully-automated management tools, there are no new or proprietary standards that require migration or training. Their comprehensive management capabilities enable customers to intuitively manage and operate their infrastructure services from either a powerful web-based interface or their programmatic API. Whether their customers need virtual servers, physical servers, software-based solutions or any hybrid combination, GoGrid provides on-demand access to the best infrastructure tools and solutions.

Category

• Infrastructure as a Service

Products

• Cloud Servers
• Dedicated Servers
• Load Balancers
• Cloud Storage

Website

• http://www.gogrid.com

Description

Enomaly is the leader in empowering telecom, IDC and managed hosting operators to deliver the benefits of Cloud Computing to their customers. As one of the earliest pioneers of cloud computing, Enomaly has the experience to help you monetize the cloud.

Their Elastic Computing Platform (Enomaly ECP) has often been described as the world’s first true IaaS platform.

Their v1 and v2 product generations were deployed over 15,000 times around the world.

Enomaly ECP 3, our current-generation technology, has benefited from our 6+ years of cloud computing leadership, and today is used by telecom and IDC operators in North America, the UK, Europe, and Asia to deliver cloud computing services to their customers.

Enomaly ECP 3, available in the core Service Provider Edition and the security-enhanced High Assurance Edition, is the only third-generation platform of its kind, and the most massively scalable, highly reliable, lightweight, and feature-packed IaaS platform in the industry.

Enomaly is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with additional team members on the West Coast of North America, in Europe, and Asia.

Category

• Infrastructure as a Service

Products

• Elastic Computing Platform

Website

• http://www.enomaly.com

Description

Rackspace delivers enterprise-level hosting services to businesses of all sizes and kinds around the world. They started in 1998 and since they grown to serve more than 99,000 customers, including over 80,000 cloud computing customers. Rackspace integrates the industry’s best technologies for each customer’s specific need and delivers it as a service via the company’s commitment to Fanatical Support. Their core products include Rackspace Managed Hosting, The Rackspace Cloud™ and Rackspace Email & Apps. There are currently over 2,900 Rackers around the world serving their customers.

Category

• Infrastructure as a Service

Products

• Cloud Servers
• Cloud Files
• Cloud Sites

Website

• http://www.rackspacecloud.com