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Cloud Vendors A to Z (Revised)
By John | April 13, 2008
This list contains most of the vendors that have a presence in the cloud:
| Cloud Vendor | Level | Type | Status | Cloud Provider | Notes |
| 3Tera | 3 | Server | Provider | Backbone | 3Teras host solutions and provides software for other host providers |
| Adobe Air | 1 | Application | Not a Provider | Backbone | Desktop play |
| Akamai | 0 | Server | Not a Provider | Software Based | CDN |
| Amazon EC2 | 2 | Server | Provider | Backbone | |
| Amazon S3 | 2 | Storage | Provider | Backbone | |
| Amazon SimpleDB | 2 | Database | Provider | Backbone | |
| Apache CouchDB | 2 | Database | Not a Provider | Software Based | IBM is involved |
| Apache Hadoop | 2 | Database | Not a Provider | Software Based | Hadoop is white-hot OSS enterprise search technology. |
| Areti Internet | 0 | Application | Provider | 3Tera | |
| Box-Net | 1 | Storage | Provider | Backbone | |
| Cassatt | 0 | Server | Not a Provider | Software Based | Utility based computing. Provides a very strong provisioning play along with robust power management. Utility providers can worth within clouds or outside of clouds (e.g., enterprise infrastructures). |
| Citrix (XenSource) | 0 | Utility | Not a Provider | Software Based | |
| CohesiveFT/ESOD | 1 | Utility | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | Sort of like of like a cloud factory. ESOD is Elastic Server on Demand that can be used to create EC2 running images along with other platform images (e.g., Zen, VMWare, Parallels). |
| Dell DCS | 2 | Server | Provider | Backbone | |
| EC2onRails | 1 | Utility | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | A project offering that claims to allow deployment of a Ruby on Rails app on EC2 in five minutes |
| Elastra | 1 | Server | Provider | Amazon EC2 | Primarily a MySQL/PostGreSQL play right now. |
| EMC Mozy | 1 | Storage | Provider | Backbone | Cloud Services Play |
| Enki | 1 | Server | Not a Provider | 3Tera | Heavier as a services player |
| Enomaly | 1 | Server | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | Heavier as a services player. Also creates other platform images (e.g., Xen,KVM,Qemu,OpenVZ,VMware, EC2 and Hyper-v) |
| Enomoly ElastcDrive | 1 | Storage | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | |
| EnterpriseDB | 1 | Database | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | Have a cloud offering |
| Flexiscale | 2 | Server | Provider | Backbone | UK Based cloud provider |
| Fortress ITX | 1 | Server | Not a Provider | 3Tera | |
| Google App Engine | 2 | Server | Provider | Backbone | Closed framework cloud. Is based on Python, Django and others. The primary point is that it does not support frameworks based on PHP or Rails. |
| Google Apps | 1 | Application | Provider | Backbone | Desktop play |
| Heroku | 1 | Utility | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | Ruby on Rails cloud |
| HP AiaaS | 2 | Server | Provider | Backbone | |
| IBM Blue Cloud | 0 | Server | Provider | Backbone | Provisioning play |
| iCloud | 1 | Application | Provider | Backbone | Desktop Cloud |
| Intridea/Scalr | 1 | Utility | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | Scalr is an open source project designed to offer true elasticity and recovery for EC2. |
| Joyent | 2 | Server | Provider | Backbone | Solaris based cloud |
| JungleDisk | 1 | Storage | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | Low cost utility for S3 |
| Layered Technology | 1 | Server | Provider | 3Tera | A 3Tera mega partner |
| LongJump | 1 | Database | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | |
| Microsoft SSDS | 1 | Database | Provider | Backbone | Competes w/Amazon SimpleDB |
| MorphExchange | 1 | Utility | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | Ruby on Rails cloud |
| Mosso | 2 | Server | Provider | Rackspace | Owned by by Rackspce |
| Nirvanix | 1 | Storage | Provider | Backbone | Interesting hybrid of Cloud and CDN |
| Rackspace | 0 | Server | Provider | Amazon EC2 | |
| Rightscale | 1 | Server | Provider | Amazon EC2 | |
| Rpath/Rbuilder | 1 | Utility | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | Similar to ESOD and Enomoly. Creates stack images. |
| Salesforce.com | 0 | Application | Provider | SaaS | |
| Sun Caroline | 2 | Server | Provider | Backbone | |
| Sun MySQL | 1 | Database | Provider | Backbone | Not sure of plans |
| Terremark | 0 | Server | Provider | Backbone | |
| VMWare | 0 | Utility | Not a Provider | Software Based | |
| Weoceo | 1 | Utility | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 |
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| Level | Description |
| 0 | Cloud Look-Alike |
| 1 | Cloud Guests |
| 2 | Cloud Hosts |
| 3 | Cloud Disruptor |
Notes:
- All vendor solutions based on Amazon’s AWS are classified as Beta because EC2, S3, and SimpleDB are all in Beta.
- RightScale has the potential to be a Level 3 provider due to their architecture
Also See … Demystifying Clouds
Topics: cloud computing, cloudt10 | 38 Comments »
April 14th, 2008 at 1:21 am
John – You’ve put in quite a bit of work to categorize this fast changing space, and it shows. May I point out that the comment “3Tera hosts solutions and provides software for other host providers” could be misunderstood to imply we have a data center in which we provide hosting. In fact, we don’t own a server, and rely on our partners – many of whom you’ve included in the chart.
Thanks for thinking of us again.
BXL
3tera
April 14th, 2008 at 5:10 am
What do you think on adding Google Web Toolkit as a technologie for cloud computing : a Google Web Toolkit application is just a set of Javascript and HTML files that dialog with a server using JSON or REST.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
This is a very exhaustive and informative list.
There is another player in this space, in2apps.
Similar in nature to Salesforce.com they too are an Application/Provider/SaaS. If you have the time, familiarize yourself with the website, and please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
April 15th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Absolutely…
Thanks for the input.
John
April 16th, 2008 at 7:32 am
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May 28th, 2008 at 8:58 am
disclaimer: I am the VP of Engineering for Caringo, Inc.
Wow! Suddenly everybody’s in the cloud. Please take a look at CAStor, a commercial cloud storage infrastructure. Probably the fastest and simplest to administer clustered storage out there. Nice work compiling this list John.
May 30th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Hi John – we launched on Apr 10, and according to your taxonomy would be classified as follows:
Skytap – 3 – Server – Provider – Backbone –
Skytap provides a cloud computing infrastructure for virtual lab management, including test, training and demo use. It’s hypervisor agnostic and can run any x86 system on its virtualization platform
June 17th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Hi John,
We are a UK-based cloud provider, launching in July.
ElasticHosts – 2 – Server – Provider – Backbone – UK-based cloud provider
We support all operating systems for PC hardware, and provide a simple web interface, enabling customers to instantly scale their servers and to make snapshots of the entire running machine state for backup.
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July 30th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
One additional category I would add here is whether the vendor offers “internal” or “enterprise” management software. e.g. Cassatt makes software that operates existing infrastructure (multi-platform HW, SW, VMs) as if it were a cloud… but within an enterprise firewall. My guess is that enterprises will realize that “public” cloud vendors (esp. PaaS) have massive economies-of-scale and can deliver a CPU’s-worth of power with 1/5th the cost of how internal IT is doing it now. They’ll want to do this themselves, and therefore want “cloud management” software to run their IT.
September 7th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
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September 30th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Missing from your list of Cloud Vendors is Blue Lock, a provider of infrastructure as a service, with data centers in Salt lake and Indianapolis.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:31 am
Here is a list of the Top U.S. IaaS/Cloud Providers. One this list are some companies not included in this list, including BlueLock (see comment above)
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/american-business-confidently-shifting-tech/story.aspx?guid={9F962961-F0FC-49DD-A363-49282E06D758}&dist=hppr
October 1st, 2008 at 11:35 am
I’m not sure why the link isn’t entirely active but if you past it in the browser it will take you to the article
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October 21st, 2008 at 4:58 pm
I would also like to offer my company, AppNexus, as a complete cloud computing solution. We have two datacenters (NY, LA), dedicated physical servers with a hypervisor that can run any operating system, F5 local and global load balancing, Isilon NAS, and 100% SLA among other services. Please check out wiki.appnexus.com for more info.
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:50 am
Another interesting player is Wolf. A 100% RIA & XML based Web Application Designing & Development Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for creating mashable & interoperable SaaS Business Applications on the internet.
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December 9th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
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May 5th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Great list. My firm, VMOps, provides software for service providers and enterprises to create computing clouds using commodity servers, storage and networking. What we’ve built is a fully integrated stack, including a Multitenant Hypervisor that installs on the computing servers and Cloud Server for controlling and managing the cloud.
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October 27th, 2009 at 7:46 am
Are you working on updating your (super/great)list. If so I would love to read it. It would really help my research for the site that I’m building !!!
Thanx
G.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Thanks for starting this process. We’ve put together our own list of cloud-based email providers for business called http://www.cloudemail101.org. We compare all of the big providers including: Microsoft BPOS, Google Apps Premier, Intermedia, Cisco, Zimbra and a bunch of the hosted Exchange providers. For those looking to stick their big toe ito the cloud with email, this is a great resource to understand their options.
-C
December 16th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Any plans to update this list? I suspect things have changed a lot since last year…
http://www.CloudShare.com launch, for example
January 7th, 2010 at 9:31 am
If you are updating the list, you may wish to include SymetriQ who are an IaaS proider. I think they are a relatively new company but we have tested extensively on other platforms and found theirs to be amongst the most intuitive and stable.
http://www.symetriq.com
January 14th, 2010 at 5:32 am
Great list and I look forward to future updates. There is one service provider that should be on the list. Softlayer with both cloud computing and cloud storage. Mezeo Software provides a deployable cloud storage platform should also be on the list with over a dozen deployments world wide.
Walt
March 21st, 2010 at 5:22 am
John,
i like the way you categorized the vendors.
I published also a list, with some more categories in a blogpost here:
http://abraham.taherivand.net/2010/03/yet-another-list-of-cloud-computing-providers/
Looking forward for feedback and opinions.
Abraham
March 24th, 2010 at 3:21 am
Quantix are another one to add to the list; http://www.quantix-uk.com & cloud-dr.com . We specialise in Oracle centric cloud deployments and Business Continuity. Cheers.
June 17th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Hi — is it possible to add ReliaCloud to the mix? You can learn more about us at http://www.reliacloud.com.