http://shakayumi.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/thirteen-aws-cloud-alternatives-to-watch-in-2/
[IaaS]
- AWS
- Verizon Terremark : more secured solution
[IaaS]
- AWS
- Verizon Terremark : more secured solution
Verizon/Terremark has already launched cloud services compliant with with
the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA),
the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), and
the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 Security and Privacy Controls.
Their compliance cloud services include Collocation, Managed Hosting, Enterprise Cloud, Enterprise Cloud Express Edition and Enterprise Cloud Private Edition, for each which Verizon offers a business associate agreement (BAA), which guarantees that the data in question is secure, supports geolocation requirements, and is auditable by tenants.
- CenturyLink/Savvis : security and reliability
Enterprises with mission-critical workloads and/or sensitive data like the idea of cloud for its flexibility, cost savings and automation, but they remain wary of potential security breaches or data loss due to outages. Many of these enterprises shun Amazon Web Services and look to Infrastructure as a Service providers with a history in uptime and reliability, such as CenturyLink/Savvis.
Savvis is also addressing interoperability concerns while making a push for hybrid cloud — having the ability to work with private cloud and move workloads to public cloud when necessary.
- Goolge Compute Engine : the greatest threat to Amazon's dominance in IaaS;
Google’s Compute Engine (GCE) remains in limited preview, and it doesn’t yet support Windows, What makes Google even more dangerous is that it owns fiber-optic networks, unlike Amazon, which rely on ISPs. Google has been ahead of the software-defined networking (SDN) game as well, and can compete with Amazon on pricing and performance right out of the gate.
Amazon is still ahead of Google when reaching out to enterprise customers, but Google could change this dynamic if it chose to. With GCE expected to open up to general availability this year, Google could be a major disruptor in the Infrastructure as a Service market.
- Rackspace: fanatical customer support
Rackspace adjusted its managed cloud support strategy from a pooled model of resources to a more traditional dedicated support team model.
In addition to its managed services work, Rackspace cloud also appears to be inching toward the Platform as a Service (PaaS) realm with its Service Registry, a tool that enables cloud consumers to orchestrate the process of assigning a workload and having a cloud service respond to that workload automatically.
Rackspace has also played a significant role in shaping OpenStack. The company began offering public cloud services based on OpenStack in August 2012, setting the stage for other major cloud service providers to follow. If Rackspace continues to broaden to its IaaS managed cloud services offerings as well as evolve its PaaS products for the burgeoning DevOps market, it should have an exciting year.
- SoftLayer : Bare Metal Cloud
The Dallas-based company, one of the largest privately owned cloud infrastructure providers, believes its competitive advantage lies in its array of product options and automation offerings designed to more finely customize cloud environments.
One of those product options is the “bare metal cloud,” in which SoftLayer removes the hypervisor from the mix and offers customers a choice in customizing its hardware infrastructure, including one to 64 processors and access to solid-state drive (SSD) storage and a high-speed global network that can be provisioned in real time. SoftLayer’s technology doesn’t come with lengthy commitments, which minimizes users’ financial risk.
A lot of users like the bare metal cloud, where SoftLayer just give them the raw power for running ‘big data’ or large databases. SoftLayer focus on customers that have performance issues where they need high disk I/O and higher network speeds and AWS can't meet this need.
Its CloudLayer services can either be integrated with dedicated servers and services; they also operate in a standalone mode that can be delivered on demand and self-managed. It isn't as big as AWS from a scale perspective, but they have more options available to users that let them fine-tune their cloud.
- ProfitBricks : Speed/InfiniBand
By adopting the venerable InfiniBand protocol, a switched fabric communications link more traditionally used in high-performance computing (HPC), company officials believe ProfitBricks has a significant speed and performance advantage over its competitors.
We were the first to bring InfiniBand to IaaS market, which changes the dynamics in a couple of ways: through higher performance and greater vertical scalability — the whole up and down provisioning aspect; and we are better able to give customers more for their money by including load balancing, firewalls and redundant networks,
In November 2012, Microsoft announced it plans to provide big compute capabilities in Windows Azure when it debuts its first virtualized InfiniBand RDMA (remote direct memory access) network, for those organizations looking to do HPC analyses. Another headwind ProfitBricks could face is that InfiniBand is pricier than other IaaS options.
- Time Warner/NaviSite :
NaviSite is splitting the difference between colocation and managed services with pure cloud computing,
Over the past two years, NaviSite has shifted its focus from colocation to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS),
- CloudSigma : flexible/give customer control
CloudSigma, an IaaS provider based in Zurich, Switzerland, was founded in 2009 as an alternative to public cloud giants, as a way to combine the flexibility and scalability of public cloud with the control customers were used to with managed hosting — a mission statement that could appeal to cloud-wary enterprises. Facilitate a more collaborative, flexible relationship between public cloud providers and customers.
CloudSigma's solution is really somewhere between managed services and pure cloud computing, Some enterprises will find that more desirable considering they are not giving up total control.”
[PaaS]
- EMC/VMware
Pivotal : combines cloud application development and big data analytics properties into a 1,400-person “virtual organization” within EMC, led by former VMware CEO Paul Maritz.
Instead, CloudBees offers vertical integration of the software process, pulling in continuous integration services through its Jenkins plugin, and it boasts partnerships with a number of ecosystem partners, including PaperTrail for log sequencing and New Relic for monitoring. Code is committed in CloudBees, tested by Jenkins and then deployed automatically to the CloudBees platform without the user having to worry about the care and feeding of each system along the way.
“Having Jenkins set up was a huge advantage for us, and allowed more time to work on core products,” said Mario Cruz, chief technology officer (CTO) and co-founder of Choose Digital, which switched to CloudBees from Heroku about a year ago.
“CloudBees is as much of a must-have to us as GitHub,” said Adrian Cole, founder of the jclouds open source project, which gets free space on CloudBees and has collaborated on the Jenkins plugin. The Jenkins plugin is also used by Google App Engine.
- Engine Yard : reduce vender lock-in concerns
Platform as a Service (PaaS) allows companies to quickly spin up applications to stay competitive in cutthroat verticals. But the ugly phrase “vendor lock-in” still looms over development teams’ heads. Engine Yard is hoping to change that.
By adding a new architecture to its Engine Yard Cloud, the San Francisco-based PaaS provider hopes to free developers from the need to re-architect apps for the platform. Its Infrastructure Abstraction layer gives developers the ability to deploy an application without worrying what other vendor(s) they are already running. And by partnering with various Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers, Engine Yard hopes to minimize the dreaded fear of lock-in.
Part of its aim in minimizing developer strain might come from a growing emphasis on DevOps, which “represents the convergence and tighter integration of the build, plan, deploy and manage” cycle. makes the difference between the classic terms of ‘developer’ and ‘operations’ less meaningful.
the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA),
the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), and
the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 Security and Privacy Controls.
Their compliance cloud services include Collocation, Managed Hosting, Enterprise Cloud, Enterprise Cloud Express Edition and Enterprise Cloud Private Edition, for each which Verizon offers a business associate agreement (BAA), which guarantees that the data in question is secure, supports geolocation requirements, and is auditable by tenants.
- CenturyLink/Savvis : security and reliability
Enterprises with mission-critical workloads and/or sensitive data like the idea of cloud for its flexibility, cost savings and automation, but they remain wary of potential security breaches or data loss due to outages. Many of these enterprises shun Amazon Web Services and look to Infrastructure as a Service providers with a history in uptime and reliability, such as CenturyLink/Savvis.
Savvis is also addressing interoperability concerns while making a push for hybrid cloud — having the ability to work with private cloud and move workloads to public cloud when necessary.
- Goolge Compute Engine : the greatest threat to Amazon's dominance in IaaS;
Google’s Compute Engine (GCE) remains in limited preview, and it doesn’t yet support Windows, What makes Google even more dangerous is that it owns fiber-optic networks, unlike Amazon, which rely on ISPs. Google has been ahead of the software-defined networking (SDN) game as well, and can compete with Amazon on pricing and performance right out of the gate.
Amazon is still ahead of Google when reaching out to enterprise customers, but Google could change this dynamic if it chose to. With GCE expected to open up to general availability this year, Google could be a major disruptor in the Infrastructure as a Service market.
- Rackspace: fanatical customer support
Rackspace adjusted its managed cloud support strategy from a pooled model of resources to a more traditional dedicated support team model.
In addition to its managed services work, Rackspace cloud also appears to be inching toward the Platform as a Service (PaaS) realm with its Service Registry, a tool that enables cloud consumers to orchestrate the process of assigning a workload and having a cloud service respond to that workload automatically.
Rackspace has also played a significant role in shaping OpenStack. The company began offering public cloud services based on OpenStack in August 2012, setting the stage for other major cloud service providers to follow. If Rackspace continues to broaden to its IaaS managed cloud services offerings as well as evolve its PaaS products for the burgeoning DevOps market, it should have an exciting year.
- SoftLayer : Bare Metal Cloud
The Dallas-based company, one of the largest privately owned cloud infrastructure providers, believes its competitive advantage lies in its array of product options and automation offerings designed to more finely customize cloud environments.
One of those product options is the “bare metal cloud,” in which SoftLayer removes the hypervisor from the mix and offers customers a choice in customizing its hardware infrastructure, including one to 64 processors and access to solid-state drive (SSD) storage and a high-speed global network that can be provisioned in real time. SoftLayer’s technology doesn’t come with lengthy commitments, which minimizes users’ financial risk.
A lot of users like the bare metal cloud, where SoftLayer just give them the raw power for running ‘big data’ or large databases. SoftLayer focus on customers that have performance issues where they need high disk I/O and higher network speeds and AWS can't meet this need.
Its CloudLayer services can either be integrated with dedicated servers and services; they also operate in a standalone mode that can be delivered on demand and self-managed. It isn't as big as AWS from a scale perspective, but they have more options available to users that let them fine-tune their cloud.
- ProfitBricks : Speed/InfiniBand
By adopting the venerable InfiniBand protocol, a switched fabric communications link more traditionally used in high-performance computing (HPC), company officials believe ProfitBricks has a significant speed and performance advantage over its competitors.
We were the first to bring InfiniBand to IaaS market, which changes the dynamics in a couple of ways: through higher performance and greater vertical scalability — the whole up and down provisioning aspect; and we are better able to give customers more for their money by including load balancing, firewalls and redundant networks,
In November 2012, Microsoft announced it plans to provide big compute capabilities in Windows Azure when it debuts its first virtualized InfiniBand RDMA (remote direct memory access) network, for those organizations looking to do HPC analyses. Another headwind ProfitBricks could face is that InfiniBand is pricier than other IaaS options.
- Time Warner/NaviSite :
NaviSite is splitting the difference between colocation and managed services with pure cloud computing,
Over the past two years, NaviSite has shifted its focus from colocation to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS),
- CloudSigma : flexible/give customer control
CloudSigma, an IaaS provider based in Zurich, Switzerland, was founded in 2009 as an alternative to public cloud giants, as a way to combine the flexibility and scalability of public cloud with the control customers were used to with managed hosting — a mission statement that could appeal to cloud-wary enterprises. Facilitate a more collaborative, flexible relationship between public cloud providers and customers.
CloudSigma's solution is really somewhere between managed services and pure cloud computing, Some enterprises will find that more desirable considering they are not giving up total control.”
[PaaS]
- EMC/VMware
Pivotal : combines cloud application development and big data analytics properties into a 1,400-person “virtual organization” within EMC, led by former VMware CEO Paul Maritz.
在今年3月份的VMware投资者大会上，VMware和EMC联合宣布将成立合资公司Pivotal，由EMC控股，EMC持有VMware约80%股份。Pivotal将由两家公司的数据分析和云应用资产合并而成，并且VMware公司前任CEO Paul Maritz出任Pivotal公司CEO，Pat Gelsinger接管VMware公司，David Goulden继续掌管EMC。北京时间2013年4月26日，Pivotal公司正式宣布成立，开始作为一个独立的实体运营。同时披露Pivotal One新一代PaaS计划，Pivotal One将是第一个集成新的分片式数据(Data Fabric)、现代编程框架、云便携性和遗留系统支持的平台。
EMC、VMware、Pivotal三家公司对详细业务进行了布局，其中EMC从事基础设施，VMware中间层，Pivotal则定位在顶端应用。Pivotal还宣布了Pivotal One计划，该计划旨在打造新一代企业PaaS平台。其中，Greenplum和Cloud Foundry是新公司的核心资产。Cloud Foundry是VMware推出的开源PaaS平台，Greenplum专注在大数据分析应用。Cetas作为大数据初创公司，也是Pivotal业务的补充。
这三家公司被业界称为“铁三角”，而且Pivotal之后，EMC系的企业级市场战略更加完善。三家公司有了明确分工，Pivotal定位在下一代云计算和大数据应用市场，VMware致力于软件定义数据中心，而EMC则专注在信息基础架构。
- CloudBees: Java PaaS and continuous delivery
Unlike other recently launched Platform as a Service vendors, CloudBees is focused on Java, JRails and Grails, rather than trying to be all things to all customers in terms of languages.Instead, CloudBees offers vertical integration of the software process, pulling in continuous integration services through its Jenkins plugin, and it boasts partnerships with a number of ecosystem partners, including PaperTrail for log sequencing and New Relic for monitoring. Code is committed in CloudBees, tested by Jenkins and then deployed automatically to the CloudBees platform without the user having to worry about the care and feeding of each system along the way.
“Having Jenkins set up was a huge advantage for us, and allowed more time to work on core products,” said Mario Cruz, chief technology officer (CTO) and co-founder of Choose Digital, which switched to CloudBees from Heroku about a year ago.
“CloudBees is as much of a must-have to us as GitHub,” said Adrian Cole, founder of the jclouds open source project, which gets free space on CloudBees and has collaborated on the Jenkins plugin. The Jenkins plugin is also used by Google App Engine.
- Engine Yard : reduce vender lock-in concerns
Platform as a Service (PaaS) allows companies to quickly spin up applications to stay competitive in cutthroat verticals. But the ugly phrase “vendor lock-in” still looms over development teams’ heads. Engine Yard is hoping to change that.
By adding a new architecture to its Engine Yard Cloud, the San Francisco-based PaaS provider hopes to free developers from the need to re-architect apps for the platform. Its Infrastructure Abstraction layer gives developers the ability to deploy an application without worrying what other vendor(s) they are already running. And by partnering with various Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers, Engine Yard hopes to minimize the dreaded fear of lock-in.
Part of its aim in minimizing developer strain might come from a growing emphasis on DevOps, which “represents the convergence and tighter integration of the build, plan, deploy and manage” cycle. makes the difference between the classic terms of ‘developer’ and ‘operations’ less meaningful.
- DotCloud : right price
dotCloud is another platform gunning for market leader Heroku, which launched in 2011, boasts tens of thousands of developer customers and is making inroads into enterprises through “guerilla” efforts — where developers at Fortune 1000 organizations lobby internally to use dotCloud for a specific project.
Designed for a new generation of cloud-native apps, with a focus on fast performance for Java development.
The Platform as a Service provider was also the only service available about a year ago that offered a stack that included Java, MongoDB, the Spring framework, the Dojo library and other specialized elements with an uptime service-level agreement (SLA). DotCloud’s SLA builds on Amazon Web Services IaaS’ 99.95% annual uptime guarantee.
- HeroKu: Market leader in PaaS
With a development community that has turned out well over 100,000 applications, along with the financial backing of Salesforce.com, which acquired Heroku in December 2010, Heroku seemed a lock to dominate the market among open source developers.
One reason for Heroku’s security is that it allows developers to build and deploy apps using not only Ruby, but also Node.js, Java, Python and Scala. Another reason is the array of management and fault-tolerant tools built into the base platform.
Late last year, Heroku delivered a couple of products that were received favorably, including Heroku Enterprise for Java, a service that allows IT shops to build and run applications in the cloud quickly. The product lets cloud providers gravitate to a continuous delivery model sooner rather than later. Additionally, the company, which introduced the idea of add-ons for PaaS providers, released version 2.0 of its Heroku Add-Ons Marketplace. The new release better enables business processes for cloud services providers, something that has gained more focus among customers.
Because Ruby has proven to be the popular programming language among developers creating social and mobile apps — the hottest app development segments at the moment – the Heroku cloud market position appears to be further strengthened.
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