Cloud ecosystem

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Contents 1 Overview 2 Cloud Providers 2.1 Big Players 2.2 PaaS 2.3 IaaS 3 Technology, Cloud Brokers and Value-add Services

Overview

Cloud Providers

Big Players

• Amazon
• Google
• IBM
• Microsoft
• Open Cirrus

However, there are many more players in the market:

PaaS

Platform as a Service (PaaS) Providers

Google App Engine Salesforce Force.com Microsoft Live Mesh Microsoft Azure Facebook Platform Google OpenSocial

IBM Cloud (private Cloud) Bungee Connect 10gen Zoho NetSuite SuiteFlex Oracle SaaS Platform

Apprenda SaaSGrid Etelos LongJump Coghead (acquired by SAP AG) Engine Yard Sun Cloud Computing

PaaS offers cloud computing customers a scalable platform for their Web development endeavors. The term "platform" refers to a runtime environment that operates on a higher level of abstraction than IaaS services. Compare to Marc Andreessen: Web as Platform.

IaaS

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Providers and Enablers

Amazon Web Services OpenCirrus (HP, Intel, Yahoo) Joyent Flexiscale Skytap

Rackspace's Mosso Nirvanix (storage cloud) terremark f5 ServePath's GoGrid

Enki (using 3tera AppLogic) Bluelock Verio AppNexus Q-Layer (enabler for VPDC)

Vaultscape Voxel's SilverLining

It makes sense to distinguish between IaaS providers that serve compute storage, processing power and bandwidth and Iaas enablers, like 3tera, that primarily provide for technology solutions but not for "bare metal".

Technology, Cloud Brokers and Value-add Services

Aptana Cloud (Joyent) CohesiveFT (Skytap,flexiscale) Enomaly (AWS) Elastra (AWS) Zimory Cassatt AppZero Citrix (IaaS enabler)

RightScale (AWS) Heroku (AWS) Engine Yard (AWS) Fortress ITX (3tera) Cloudera (Hadoop) 3tera (IaaS enabler) Scalr (AWS) Elasticfox (AWS)

S3Fox (AWS) Cloud Studio (AWS) Cloud Tools (AWS) JetS3t (AWS) Bucket Explorer (AWS) Ylastic (AWS) rPath Dell Cloud Computing Solutions

Jollat (AWS) PersistentFS (AWS) mor.ph (AWS) XCalibre (FlexiScale) b-hive (VMWare) Coghead appirio enStratus

Different from PaaS providers, brokers use third party IaaS services in order to provide higher-level services (PaaS, tools and frameworks) to cloud computing customers.