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By Vincent Capasso
The cloud is drawing much attention from both Chief Information Officers and Chief Investment Officers as well as VC firms worldwide.
The following list represents some of the brightest
prospects among relatively new companies competing in some aspect of cloud
computing. Some of these companies are likely to be serious IT influencers in
the months and years to come, others will go out of business. Can you spot the winners?
Following are brief descriptions of some of
the most impressive Cloud solution provider companies including their headquarters locations
and links to their Websites. This partial list was derived by judges from a recent Dealmaker Media's Under the Radar conference, held April 28 in Mountain View, California.
1. Abiquo,
Redwood City, Calif., has an open-source management platform for
private, public and hybrid clouds using a globally deployed computing
infrastructure that can be accessed through a single control dashboard.
Abiquo says its customers are able to decrease the cost/complexity of
managing their virtual IT environments while maintaining control of the
physical infrastructure and increasing agility to change hypervisors
as needed.
2. AppDirect,
San Francisco, offers companies a free, private business application
network to find, buy and manage Web-based applications. It allows
businesses to use and manage all their Web-based applications in one
secure site. It also offers a marketplace giving businesses direct
access to the latest tools.
3. AppFirst,
New York, is a MAAS (mobility as a service)-based, application-aware
infrastructure performance management product. It provides application
architects and IT managers with visibility into the behavior and
performance of applications across an entire application
stack—regardless of language, application type or location (cloud,
physical or virtual servers).
4. CloudPassage,
Menlo Park, Calif., is a security SAAS (software as a service) company
offering the industry's first and only server security and compliance
product purpose-built for elastic cloud environments. The company
addresses the technical challenges of securing highly dynamic
cloud-hosting environments where consistent physical location, network
control and perimeter security are not guaranteed. The company's early
product feature set includes server vulnerability and compliance
management, and centralized management of host-based firewalls.
CloudPassage operates across infrastructure models and seamlessly
handles cloud server bursting, cloning and migration.
5. DotCloud,
San Francisco, is a second-generation PAAS (platform as a service)
technology. It makes it simple for developers to deploy and scale their
applications, while delivering the flexibility and robustness required
by critical business software. Developers can mix and match from a
large choice of languages, databases, caching and messaging components,
leaving them in full control of their IT stack.
6. GoodData,
San Francisco, offers a powerful cloud-based business-intelligence
platform, which provides users with operational dashboards, advanced
reporting and data warehousing at a fraction of the cost and complexity
of other approaches. GoodData customers include Enterasys Networks,
Pandora Media and Software AG, and its platform is embedded into
offerings from cloud innovators such as Zendesk, Aurix and Brightidea.
7. Hadapt, New
Haven, Conn., transforms Yahoo's Hadoop into a cloud-based
data-warehousing analytics platform, allowing customers to store and
rapidly analyze structured and unstructured data in one infinitely
scalable system. Using a hybrid database architecture to combine the
high performance of relational DBMSes with the scalability of Hadoop,
Hadapt claims to perform SQL queries 50 times faster than Hadoop while
running on inexpensive commodity hardware or in a cloud environment.
8. SalesCrunch,
New York, has a social-selling platform—not unlike Salesforce.com—that
it says takes selling from "fuzzy art to repeatable process" by
capturing, measuring, training and tracking sales across a company and
its customers. The company's presentation and training packages are
called CrunchConnect, CrunchTrainer and SalesSchool.
9. ScaleXtreme,
Palo Alto, Calif., is building new systems management products
delivered as a cloud service. Built in-house to be simple, scalable and
social, ScaleXtreme's product aims to transform the way IT
administrators manage their Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), VMware
virtual machine and physical server deployments. ScaleXtreme was
founded by a team with expertise in enterprise software and systems
management, including Bladelogic and VMware.
10. Versly, San
Francisco, has a new cloud-based collaborative content aggregator that
integrates with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, the Web and mobile devices so
groups can stay organized from anywhere, at any time. Versly's team
consists of some of the original Java team from Sun Microsystems and
former architects at WebLogic, Apache and Zimbra.
Do you know of any other interesting cloud startups?
Cross posted from myITview.com
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