Two startups and one existing provider are prepping new utility computing services, joining the growing market for scalable on-demand infrastructure. Here’s a look at the new players:
- SaaSGrid [1] is a service from Apprenda that is currently in private beta. Company founders Sinclair Schuller and Matt Ammerman are blogging about their approach at SaaS Blogs [2].
- Nirvanix [3] is a startup with an on-demand storage solution similar in concept to Amazon’s S3. The company launched this year, has raised $12 million in venture capital and has 40 beta customers on its service. Read the Nirvanix blog [4] for more.
- Scottish hosting provider XCalibre Communications [5] is about to unveil a grid hosting service, according to Om Malik [6], who says the company has built its own platform atop F5 load balancers, Dell servers, Virtual Iron and NetApp storage. XCalibre will focus on the European market. UPDATE: The service, known as FlexiScale [7], is now live.
Amazon (AMZN) is one of the best-known players in the utility computing market, but IBM, Sun (JAVA) Savvis (SVVS) and Terremark (TMRK) have platforms as well. In the past two years we’ve also seen the emergence of grid services from hosting specialists, with
Rackspace/Mosso [8],
Concentric [9] and
media temple [10]building their own solutions, while
3Tera’s “grid OS” [11] software is in use at
ServePath [12] and
Layered Technologies [13], among others.
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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URLs in this post:
[1] SaaSGrid: http://www.apprenda.com/saasgrid/
[2] SaaS Blogs: http://www.saasblogs.com/
[3] Nirvanix: http://www.nirvanix.com/
[4] Nirvanix blog: http://developer.nirvanix.com/blogs/nirvanix/default.aspx
[5] XCalibre Communications: http://www.xcalibre.co.uk
[6] Om Malik: http://gigaom.com/2007/10/02/xcalibre-to-bring-utility-computing-to-euro-web-startups/
[7] FlexiScale: http://www.flexiscale.com/
[8] Rackspace/Mosso: http://www.mosso.com/
[9] Concentric: http://www.concentric.com/clustered.php
[10] media temple : http://www.mediatemple.net/webhosting/gs/
[11] 3Tera’s “grid OS”: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Aug/15/3tera_powering_virtual_private_datacenters.html
[12] ServePath: http://www.servepath.com/dedicated-servers/grid-servers/index.htm
[13] Layered Technologies: http://www.thegridlayer.com/
[14] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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