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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:

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1. All vendor solutions based on Amazon’s AWS are classified as Beta because EC2, S3, and SimpleDB are all in Beta.
2. RightScale has the potential to be a Level 3 provider due to their architecture

Also See … Demystifying Clouds

Topics: cloud computing, cloudt10 | 37 Comments »

37 Responses to “Cloud Vendors A to Z (Revised)”

1. Barry X Lynn Says:
   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

2. dgirard Says:
   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.

3. pmcbride Says:
   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.

4. John Says:
   April 15th, 2008 at 2:45 pm

   Absolutely…

   Thanks for the input.
   John

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11. duttonator Says:
    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.

12. IanK Says:
    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

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    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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