Top 10 Cloud Service Providers

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Cloud Computing Defined

Dynamically scalable shared resources accessed over a network

• Only pay for what you use• Shared internally or with other customers• Resources = storage, computing, services, etc.• Internal network or InternetNotes• Similar to Timesharing• Rent IT resources vs. buy• New term – definition still being developed

1. Amazon Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service thatprovides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain andconfigure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with completecontrol of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’sproven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the timerequired to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowingyou to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computingrequirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics ofcomputing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actuallyuse. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilientapplications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios.

2. VerizonCloud computing from Verizon and Terremark, a Verizon company, deliverson-demand functionality, helping you accelerate IT innovation and control Costs for your business.vCloudTM Express:vCloud Express is a flexible, high-performance, pay-as-you-go, computing-ondemand service from Terremark, a Verizon company. Key features include:• Persistent storage (so you don’t lose your server if you power it down).• Fully integrated network, security, and load-balancing features.• An intuitive web console that lets you build and manage your virtual network

in just minutes—on-demand and at the click of a button.• The ability to create your own system on blank servers with over 450

compatible operating systems to choose from or use one of our preloaded templates—pricing starts at just 3.7 cents per hour.

3.IBM

IBM Smart Cloud:Cloud computing changes the way we think about technology. Cloud isa computing model providing web-based software, middleware andcomputing resources on demand.• Architecture for Private & Hybrid Cloud

( IBM SmartCloud Foundation) • Cloud Computing as Service for IT

(IBM SmartCloud Services)• Software as a service (SaaS) business solutions

(IBM SmartCloud Solutions)

4. SalesForce.com

Salesforce is India's world class cloud technologycompany that builds your business faster, moresecurely, with greater reliability and constant upgradeability.

5. CSC

CSC provides a full life cycle of cloud offerings as part ofits portfolio of extensive professional and outsourced services. These offerings are designed to help enterprises transform and migrate traditional applicationenvironments to work in cloud-based environments aswell as enable provisioning of cloud services as a set of "on-demand" capabilities. These services can support afull range of application environments from database toWeb, mobile, and enterprise applications.

6. Rackspace

The cloud can quickly scale to thousands of servers to make resources available as they're needed. Rackspace Cloudhosting customers never need to worry about buying new hardware to meet increasing traffic demands or huge traffic spikes. Rackspace Cloud offers four hosting products: • Cloud Servers™ for on-demand computing Power • Cloud Sites™ for robust web hosting • Cloud Load Balancers for easy, on-demand load

balancing and high availability• Cloud Files™ for elastic online file storage and CDN.

7. Google

Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office bringscollaborative multi-person editing to the familiar MicrosoftOffice experience. You can share, backup and simultaneouslyedit Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documentswith coworkers.Google Apps Key features are:• Security first• Stay connected from anywhere• Work better together• Get stuff done faster• Invisible IT that just works• Go Green

8.BluelockBluelock Virtual Datacenters—A cloud hosting solutionWith Bluelock, you’ll find a cloud computing provider who sees your challenges. Clearly. Challenges like needing to move quickly. Not knowing exactly what you’ll need and when. And needing to be able to change your mind later if things don’t go quite as planned–because let’s face it, they never do. Bluelock understands what public cloud hosting is really about, and can help you begin to take steps forward from today’s datacenter toward a logical public or hybrid cloud business model.Through our deep experience in cloud hosting, we’re proving that big challenges can be transformed into real opportunities. As a well established VMware Service Provider, most recently earning the prestigiousVmware provider certification, create secure, reliable Virtual Datacenters (VDCs) that give businesses like yours newfound agility in today’s market.

9. MicrosoftWindows Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment. Key Features:• Always up, Always on• Open• Unlimited servers, Unlimited storage• Powerful Capabilities

10.Joyent

SmartMachinesSmartMachines run applications very, very well. SmartMachines come with four very powerful characteristics which collectively set them apart from all other cloud computing services today, regardless of the operating system you choose to run.• Reliability and Resiliency• Performance and Scale• Observability• Security

Flavors of Cloud Computing

• SaaS – Software as a Service: Network-hosted application• DaaS – Data as a Service: Customer queries against provider’s

database• PaaS– Platform as a Service: Network-hosted software

development platform• IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service: Provider hosts customer VMs or

provides network storage• IPMaaS – Identity and Policy Management as a Service: Provider

manages identity and/or access control policy for customer• NaaS – Network as a Service: Provider offers virtualized networks

Some Service providers forSaaS – Software as a Service

Some Service providers for DaaS – Data as a Service

Some Service providers for PaaS– Platform as a Service

Some Service providers for IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service

Some Service providers for NaaS – Network as a Service

Some Service providers forIPMaaS – Identity and Policy Management as a Service

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