{"id":132,"date":"2014-02-11T14:25:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T19:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/?p=132"},"modified":"2016-10-19T10:16:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T14:16:10","slug":"20-coolest-cloud-platform-and-development-vendors-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/20-coolest-cloud-platform-and-development-vendors-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Cool Cloud Platform and Development Vendors 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"8<\/a>So many clouds, where do we start. \u00a0Let’s start with some of the called coolest Cloud Platform and Development vendors as recognized by CRN at www.crn.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Each year the folks at CRN put together the Top 100 cloud service<\/a> providers across the spectrum of cloud offerings including infrastructure, platforms\/development, storage, software and security. \u00a0This is an outstanding way to view the market landscape and to assist you with honing into your key cloud service focus areas. \u00a0Let’s get this party started with 8 Cool\u00a0Cloud Platform<\/a> and Development Vendors. \u00a0This is also referred to as a Platform-As-A-Service solution.<\/p>\n

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  1. Apprenda<\/strong> (www.apprenda.com<\/a>) 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.<\/li>\n
  2. Cloudbees<\/strong>\u00a0(www.cloudbees.com<\/a>) is a visionary in researcher Gartner’s Magic Quadrant<\/a> for Enterprise Application Platforms as a Service. Founder Sacha Labourey<\/a> hit it out of the park as one of the core contributors of JBoss<\/a> — acquired by Red Hat. Now he’s leading the PaaS<\/a> paradigm shift.<\/li>\n
  3. CumuLogic\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0(www.cumulogic.com<\/a>)\u00a0The CumuLogic<\/a> platform integrates with your existing compute, storage and networking infrastructure empowering you to deliver \u201ceverything-as-a-service\u201d inside your data center. With the CumuLogic platform, you can rapidly\u00a0build a private cloud based on AWS<\/a> architecture.<\/li>\n
  4. Docker<\/strong> \u00a0(www.docker.io<\/span><\/a>) just completed $15 million in Series B funding led by Greylock Partners<\/a>.\u00a0Docker 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<\/a> clusters, public clouds and more.<\/li>\n
  5. Engine Yard<\/strong> (www.engineyard.com<\/a>)\u00a0Backed by, among others, Amazon and Oracle, Engine Yard is taking business-critical Platform-as-a-Service security to a new level. Engine Yard\u00a0uses open source technologies to automate and orchestrate the deployment, configuration and management of your apps on the underlying infrastructure.<\/li>\n
  6. Eucalyptus<\/strong> (www.eucalyptus.com<\/a>)\u00a0Eucalyptus is\u00a0open source private cloud software<\/strong>\u00a0for building private and hybrid clouds that are compatible with\u00a0AWS APIs<\/strong>. With AWS-compatibility, the open source software pools together existing virtualized infrastructure to create private or hybrid cloud resources for compute, network, and storage.<\/li>\n
  7. GigaSpaces<\/strong> (www.gigaspaces.com<\/a>) 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<\/a> public cloud, pledging “single click deployment” for nearly any app.<\/li>\n
  8. Parallels<\/strong>\u00a0(www.parallels.com<\/a>) 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<\/a> portal.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Original article can be found at\u00a0https:\/\/www.crn.com\/slide-shows\/cloud\/240165700\/the-20-coolest-cloud-platforms-and-development-vendors-of-the-2014-cloud-100.htm<\/a><\/p>\n
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    So many clouds, where do we start. \u00a0Let’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. \u00a0This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n8 Cool Cloud Platform and Development Vendors 2014 - Best Enterprise Cloud Strategy Tools, Vendors, Managed Service Providers, MSP and Solutions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"CRN put together the Top 100 cloud service providers. Here are 8 of the coolest Cloud Platform and Development Vendors. 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