Cloud Computing Company Watch List

Cloud Computing is one of the biggest forces driving change in data centers and it has one of the biggest potentials to green the data center.

I had previously written on how there are a lack of cloud computing review information.

Well at least MIT’s Technology Review has a list of the top Cloud Computing companies to watch.

JULY/AUGUST 2009

BRIEFING: CLOUD COMPUTING

Companies to Watch: Private Companies

Name: 10gen, www.10gen.com
Year Founded: 2008
Number of Employees: 8
Major Investors: Union Square Ventures
Total Invested: $1.5 million
Key Product: MongoDB
Technology: Sponsors an open-source database that makes cloud applications easier to build.

Name: 3Tera, www.3tera.com
Year Founded: 2004
Number of Employees: 30
Major Investors: Undisclosed
Total Invested: Undisclosed
Key Product: AppLogic
Technology: Allows customers to move data and applications easily between its cloud platform and private data centers.

Name: Appistry, www.appistry.com
Year Founded: 2001
Number of Employees: 35
Major Investors: Stuart Mill Venture Partners
Total Invested: $23 million
Key Product: Appistry CloudIQ
Technology: Makes it possible to move business functions to a cloud while keeping existing
systems.

Name: Elastra, www.elastra.com
Year Founded: 2007
Number of Employees: 35
Major Investors: Amazon, Bay Partners, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Total Invested: $14.6 million
Key Product: Elastra Enterprise Cloud Server
Technology: Helps businesses use public clouds in concert with their internal IT setups.

Name: Enomaly, www.enomaly.com
Year Founded: 2004
Number of Employees: 20
Major Investors: Intel
Total Invested: Undisclosed
Key Product: Elastic Computing Platform
Technology:Creates tools that give customers the freedom to change cloud providers.

Name: XCalibre, www.flexiscale.com
Year Founded: 1997
Number of Employees: 26
Major Investors: Funded by revenue
Total Invested: N/A
Key Product: FlexiScale
Technology: Helps European startups comply with data protection and export regulations.

Name: Heroku, www.heroku.com
Year Founded: 2007
Number of Employees: 11
Major Investors: Redpoint Ventures, Y Combinator
Total Invested: $3 million
Key Product: Heroku
Technology: Allows rapid deployment of systems based on Ruby on Rails, a popular way of building Web applications.

Name: RightScale, www.rightscale.com
Year Founded: 2006
Number of Employees: 100
Major Investors: Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures
Total Invested: $22.2 million
Key Product: RightScale Cloud Management Platform
Technology: Provides essential hand-holding for companies wanting to run applications on a variety of public and private clouds.

Name: Joyent, www.joyent.com
Year Founded: 2004
Number of Employees: 25
Major Investors: Seed investment from PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel
Total Invested: Undisclosed
Key Product: Accelerator, Connector
Technology: Provides on-demand storage and computing services for Web-application developers.

Name: ServePath, www.gogrid.com
Year Founded: 1994
Number of Employees: 100+
Major Investors: Funded by revenue
Total Invested: N/A
Key Product: GoGrid
Technology: Hopes to beat Amazon by wooing IT administrators with management software that behaves more like the tools they are already familiar with.

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