Introducing Company Profiles: Highlighting Today's Cloud Computing Leaders
Cloud computing is defined as much by the companies delivering these new services, as it is by technology or anything else. Our company profiles highlight the leaders in this emerging market, with new ones added weekly.
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Company Profiles
3Tera
3Tera is a developer of system software for utility and cloud computing and was one of the first cloud vendors in the market to deliver a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. 3Tera's AppLogic integrates the user interface, grid operating system, metering, and billing into one complete platform...
Canonical
Canonical is the commercial enterprise behind Ubuntu, one of the most popular open source distributions of the Linux operating system. The company provides support, engineering and professional services, as well as, hardware and software certification for Ubuntu. When it comes to Ubuntu, things...
Cisco
Cisco, well-known for its success in supplying the bits and pieces that form a company's network backbone, does not lack for ambition. It has built its router and switch business into a $36 billion behemoth, allowing it to invest in related markets, such as consumer products, unified communications...
Citrix
Citrix executed a strategic acquisition of XenSource in 2007 that allowed it to challenge for leadership in virtualization. And while one of it's main rivals, VMware, holds sway in the enterprise business market, Citrix leads the way with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud vendors since Xen...
Engine Yard
Engine Yard has evolved from a managed hosting provider of Ruby on Rails applications to a full-fledged platform for Ruby on Rails application development, deployment and mangement. Their Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings can leverage the Amazon EC2 public cloud or, can be run on the Engine...
Enomaly
Enomaly provides a programmable virtual cloud infrastructure for businesses to host and manage applications either in a public or private cloud within the customer's data center; they also deliver a solution customized for carriers and service providers. Solutions are targeted at bringing the...
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus Systems delivers open source software that enables organizations to build on-premise private and hybrid clouds utilizing the software and hardware already in place within the enterprise's datacenter. Their Platform as a Service (PaaS) is billed as "the leading open source private cloud...
Force.com
Force.com is Salesforce.com's Platform as a Service (PaaS) that not only underpins their CRM solutions, it also enables customers, developers, and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to build their own Software as a Service (SaaS) applications without the need to invest in the infrastructure to do...
Google App Engine
Google entered the cloud platform arena with a bang after several years of speculation. In April 2008, they launched Google App Engine and, while the news wasn't unexpected, it did serve notice to the industry that one of the giants of computing was ready to put its vast resources behind a concept...
Heroku
Geva Perry, in his blog Thinking Out Cloud, made an interesting observation that "...Ruby developers are the cloud generation." The Ruby language and Ruby on Rails, the application framework, are very popular among those building next-generation web sites and web services. It shouldn't come as much...
IBM
IBM has the breadth and depth from across it's business units -- software, hardware, and services -- to allow it to play a significant role in the advent of cloud computing. They have a wide range of cloud computing offerings across each pillar -- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a...
LongJump
LongJump, part of Relational Networks, provides both Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) to enterprises, independent software vendors (ISVs), and service providers (SPs). The LongJump Business Application Platform helps companies speed application design, deployment, and...
Microsoft
When Ray Ozzie announced Microsoft's formal entry into cloud computing with the Azure Services Platform he stated, "We have introduced a game-changing set of technologies that will bring new opportunities to Web developers and business developers alike. The Azure Services Platform...gives our...
OpSource
OpSource was built to serve the needs of organizations of all types looking to leverage cloud computing, whether as a consumer or a provider of cloud-based services. Enterprise customers can tap into their infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings via a "virtual private cloud within the public...
Oracle
In September 2008, Larry Ellison said, "The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can't think of anything that isn't cloud computing with all of these announcements." Before finishing, he pulled back a little and...
Sun Microsystems
Sun has a vast arsenal of hardware and software assets it's brought together to create compelling cloud computing services, whether as a direct provider of those services, as a partner to service providers, or as a supplier to organizations that are looking to launch their own private clouds. It...
Terremark
Terremark built its business around managed hosting, co-location, network and security services before formally entering the cloud computing market last year. They built their Enterprise Cloud offering on their Infinistructure utility computing Web-based platform, which includes an integrated...
TIBCO Silver
TIBCO is well-known for its business integration software used to help organizations create a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and improve business process management (BPM). So, it was only a matter of time before it would formally get into the cloud computing market. In June 2009, they did just...
Ubuntu
Canonical is the commercial enterprise behind Ubuntu, one of the most popular open source distributions of the Linux operating system. The company provides support, engineering and professional services, as well as, hardware and software certification for Ubuntu. When it comes to Ubuntu, things...
Unisys
Unisys is a company to watch in the cloud computing market. Perhaps not known as an industry leader, even with a history that stretches over 100 years, this latest evolution of computing might be the wave that raises their profile and unlocks the company's true potential. In more recent years,...
VMware
VMware's CEO Paul Maritz explained how virtualization lies at the heart of the evolution of the data center during his kenote at VMworld 2009. He called it an evolution that would lead to the emerging cloud paradigm, but he knows VMware will have its work cut out for itself if it is become the...
