In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1–4, 2010)
being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time
to give my earlier list a complete overhaul.
Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the
Cloud Ecosystem.
I have increased it from the 'mere' 150 I identified back in January of this
year, to 250, testimony – as if any were needed! – to the fierce and
continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of
enterprise computing.
Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various
services and solutions in this round-up are in every case taken from the Web
sites of the companies themselves. Omissions to this Top 250 list should be
sent to me via Twitter (twitter.com/jg21) and I will endeavor to include them
in any future revision of this newly expanded rou... (more)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 04/30/12 --
WHAT: Chris Pinkham, Co-Founder and CEO of Nimbula, will talk about what it
takes to build the next generation infrastructure cloud at Silicon Valley
Cloud Computing Group's IaaS Series. Nimbula was recently named a cool vendor
in cloud management by Gartner for being innovative, impactful and
intriguing. Before founding Nimbula, Chris conceived and developed the
industry-leading public cloud Amazon EC2.
WHERE: Yahoo! Campus - Building C, 2nd Floor, Classroom 5
701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA
WHEN: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 6:30 p.m... (more)
The 9th Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium today announced ten companies for its
2012 Innovation Showcase which represent cutting edge B2B solutions that
combine the strongest value and innovation to enterprise IT. The finalists
will receive key exposure to many of the world’s most creative and
influential IT executives at the Symposium on May 22, 2012.
After careful consideration, the Innovation Showcase Judges, (consisting of
MIT faculty, entrepreneurs, and early-stage investors) chose these ten
companies because they:
Are start-ups with less than $10 million in 2011 revenue Are se... (more)
As we are in the early stages of the transformation offered by cloud
computing, there is lot of confusion around how various solutions and
offerings fit in the overall picture for enterprise customers and the
benefits of various offerings. Whether you have to deliver SaaS, PaaS, or
Custom Apps there are three building blocks you need to deliver them,
datacenter with virtualization, IaaS layer on top of virtualization, and
application/workload management for efficient deployment and management. It
can be argued that you don’t need virtualization or IaaS to deliver the
Sa... (more)
Nimbula, the so-called cloud operating system start-up put in train by a
couple of the boys credited with creating Amazon’s EC2 service, has gotten
a $15 million B round.
Accel Partners led the check-signing. Sequoia Capital also pulled out a pen.
Sequoia and VMware, oddly enough, staked Nimbula to its $5.75 million first
round.
Accel, like Sequoia, gets a board seat. VMware’s ex-CEO Diane Greene – in
another small world moment – also sits on the board but is not an investor.
The money is supposed to go into developing hybrid cloud computing
technologies and pushing out Nimbula’... (more)
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