8 Cool Cloud Platform and Development Vendors 2014

So many clouds, where do we start.  Let’s start with some of the called coolest Cloud Platform and Development vendors as recognized by CRN at www.crn.com.

Each year the folks at CRN put together the Top 100 cloud service providers across the spectrum of cloud offerings including infrastructure, platforms/development, storage, software and security.  This is an outstanding way to view the market landscape and to assist you with honing into your key cloud service focus areas.  Let’s get this party started with 8 Cool Cloud Platform and Development Vendors.  This is also referred to as a Platform-As-A-Service solution.

1. Apprenda (www.apprenda.com) posted a 225 percent sales growth in 2014, with 13 leading financial institutions now using the platform, including JPMorgan Chase. The JPMorgan Chase return on investment: a 300 percent increase in infrastructure utilization and a 700 percent increase in developer productivity.
2. Cloudbees (www.cloudbees.com) is a visionary in researcher Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platforms as a Service. Founder Sacha Labourey hit it out of the park as one of the core contributors of JBoss — acquired by Red Hat. Now he’s leading the PaaS paradigm shift.
3. CumuLogic  (www.cumulogic.com) The CumuLogic platform integrates with your existing compute, storage and networking infrastructure empowering you to deliver “everything-as-a-service” inside your data center. With the CumuLogic platform, you can rapidly build a private cloud based on AWS architecture.
4. Docker  (www.docker.io) just completed $15 million in Series B funding led by Greylock Partners. Docker is an open-source project to easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale, in production, on VMs, bare metal, OpenStack clusters, public clouds and more.
5. Engine Yard (www.engineyard.com) Backed by, among others, Amazon and Oracle, Engine Yard is taking business-critical Platform-as-a-Service security to a new level. Engine Yard uses open source technologies to automate and orchestrate the deployment, configuration and management of your apps on the underlying infrastructure.
6. Eucalyptus (www.eucalyptus.com) Eucalyptus is open source private cloud software for building private and hybrid clouds that are compatible with AWS APIs. With AWS-compatibility, the open source software pools together existing virtualized infrastructure to create private or hybrid cloud resources for compute, network, and storage.
7. GigaSpaces (www.gigaspaces.com) makes OpenStack deployment as simple as click-and-go with its Cloudify open-source application management platform. The company recently launched Cloudify Application Catalog on the OpenStack-based HP public cloud, pledging “single click deployment” for nearly any app.
8. Parallels (www.parallels.com) offers a breakthrough platform for hosters looking to deploy and manage Microsoft’s latest and greatest software, including Hyper-V on Windows Azure. More than 9,000 service providers now use Parallels cloud services enablement. The company has seen a more than 400 percent increase in partners using the Parallels PartnerNet portal.

Original article can be found at https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/240165700/the-20-coolest-cloud-platforms-and-development-vendors-of-the-2014-cloud-100.htm