Top cloud computing companies list. Posted by MOHAMMED ABDUL HAMEED on 12:37 PM

Top cloud computing companies list.

Amazon - Amazon Web Services (IaaS)

The cloud computing company of Amazon.com : Amazon Web Service(AWS) provide Infrastructure-as-a-service(IaaS) offerings in the cloud for organizations requiring computing power,storage, and other services.

• Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2)

EC2 is a web service that allow resizable compute capacity in the cloud.The customers can create virtual machines (VMs)-that is ,server instances called Amazon Machine Image (AMI)- on which the customer can load any softaware of his choice.They follow pay-by-the hour system.

• Simple Storage Service(S3)

S3 provide a web service interface that can be used to store and retrived unlimited amounts of dat, at any time, from anywhere thru the Internet.

Google Cloud Computing Unit : App Engine

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Google (SaaS,PaaS)

Google App Engine is Google's platform-as-a-service(Paas) offers building and hosting web applications on the Google Infrastructure.Currently Python and Java are the supported programming languages.App Engine is free up to a certain level of resource used.Fee is charged for additional storage, bandwidth, or CPU cycles required by the application.

Software-as-a-servive (SaaS) offers business email and collaboration.Its similar to the traditional office suits, includin Gmail, Calendar, Talk, Docs and Sites.

Microsoft Azure Service Platform(PaaS)

Azure Service Platform is Microsoft's PaaS offering an operating system called Windows Azure that serves as a runtime for the applications and provides a set of services such as:

.NET Services, SQL Services, Live Services

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Rackspace (Cloud Hosting)

Is one of the premier cloud computing companies that leads cloud hosting. They serve over 10000 companies and many of the Fortune 100 companies come under this huge list. Their unique customer service strategy named - Fanatic support have helped them in gaining the trust of their clients. With the huge client commitment and state-of- the art technology. Rackspace is one good cloud computing company to invest in.

Proofpoint (SaaS,IaaS)

Proofpoint provides SaaS and IaaS services in the cloud related to securing the enterprise email infrastruture, with solutions .Proofpoint's solutions are priced on a per-user, per-year basis,depending on the product features.

RightScale(IaaS)

RightScale provides IaaS-Related services in the cloud to assist organizations in managing cloud deployments offered by other CSPs, including vendors such as AWS,FlexiScale, and GoGrid.The Rightscale Cloud Management Platform allows organizations to manage and maintain their cloud deployment through one web-based management platform.

Salesforce.com(SaaS,PaaS)

Salesforce is a provider of SaaS-based products, as well as having a PaaS offering, Force.com.

Sun Open Cloud Platform

According to Sun, the Open Cloud Platform is an open architecture and infrastructure encompassing technologies such as Java, MySQL,OpenSolaris, and Open Storage software.

Workday (SaaS)

Workday is a provider of SaaS-based hum resources and financial management products.Workday pricing is on a per-user basis and functionality.Workday's solutions are divided into serveral modules like Human Capital Management, Payroll, Worker Spend Management, Financial Management et cetra.In the collection of such companies the ones which provide Cloud Compuing in IaaS cloud are the most On-demand in the market today!

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Cloud Computing: Acronyms (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) Posted by MOHAMMED ABDUL HAMEED on 12:28 AM

SaaS – Software As A Service

Essentially based on the concept of renting application functionality from a service provider rather than buying, installing and running software yourself. Offerings within this range from services such as Salesforce.com at one end, delivering the equivalent of a complete application suite, to players like MessageLabs at the other, whose services are designed to complement your operational infrastructure.

PaaS – Platform As A Service

Platform as a service (PaaS), which is all about providing, a platform in the cloud, upon which applications can be developed and executed. Players like Google, again Salesforce.com (this time with Force.com), and Microsoft (with Azure) exist in this space. Facilities provided include things like database management, security, workflow management, application serving, and so on.

IaaS – Infrastructure As A Service

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS). The proposition here is the offering of compute power and storage space on demand.

The difference between this and the other two categories of cloud is that the software that executes is essentially yours. In practical terms, the model is based on the same principles of virtualisation that we are all familiar with in the context of server partitioning or flexible storage. Rather than running a virtual image on a partition existing on a physical server in your data centre, you spin it up on a virtual machine that you have created in the cloud. Virtual disks can be created in a similar manner, to deal with the storage side of things.

Cloud Computing Posted by MOHAMMED ABDUL HAMEED on 6:48 AM

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network (typically the Internet).

Cloud computing provides computation, software applications, data access,data management and storage resources without requiring cloud users to know the location and other details of the computing infrastructure.

End users access cloud based applications through aweb browser or a light weight desktop or mobile app while the business software and data are stored on servers at a remote location. Cloud application providers strive to give the same or better service and performance than if the software programs were installed locally on end-user computers.

At the foundation of cloud computing is the broader concept of infrastructure convergence (or Converged Infrastructure) and shared services. This type of data centre environment allows enterprises to get their applications up and running faster, with easier manageability and less maintenance, and enables IT to more rapidly adjust IT resources (such as servers, storage, and networking) to meet fluctuating and unpredictable business demand.

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