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Cloud Computing

Notes 10gen: It is the company that provides a platform for developers to build scalable web
based applications. It provides MongoDB, the leading NoSQL database. MongoDB is the
open-source, document-oriented technology that is reshaping the market due to the
popularity of its scalable approach among developers and IT professionals. 10gen leads
MongoDB development, supports the large and growing MongoDB community, provides
commercial subscriptions and offers professional support, consulting and training services.
Additionally, 10gen provides the free, cloud-based MongoDB Monitoring Service (MMS).

Cohesive Flexible Technologies: Cohesive Flexible Technologies Corp., an enterprise
application-to-cloud migration solutions company, provides software defined networking
solutions for cloud computing applications. It primarily focuses on developing and
delivering solutions that enable enterprises to run business operations in the cloud.

Joyent: It is the high-performance cloud infrastructure company, offering the only solution
specifically built to power real-time web and mobile applications. Joyent is the only cloud
infrastructure that delivers bare-metal performance from a virtual machine, enabling
applications to run 2X faster than on traditional public or private cloud infrastructures.

Mosso: It provides an enterprise-level cloud hosting service with automatic scaling.
Mosso takes a slightly different approach from the other providers as it merges the idea of
cloud computing with the traditional managed/shared server environment that many
web hosts provide. Mosso provides servers with operating systems and software
pre-installed, much like a standard web host. This allows Mosso to easily monitor and
scale the service as needed which frees the end user from having to worry about operating
systems, devices, load balancing, etc.

Nirvanix offers a cloud storage platform for developers, as well as Nirvanix Web Services,
which provides file management and other common operations via a standards-based
API. The company offers cloud storage solutions designed specifically for customers with
expectations of extreme security, reliability and redundancy levels.

Skytap which provides Skytap Cloud is an enterprise hybrid cloud service designed
specifically for dynamic workloads, including development and testing, virtual training,
and software demos. Skytap Cloud is accessed through a web-based application or
REST-based API.

Strikelron: It developed IronCloud, an award-winning cloud infrastructure, to help you
plan, deploy, manage and host your API infrastructure and ecosystem. As a reliable and
scalable solution, StrikeIron’s IronCloud API management and hosting platform removes
the hurdles allowing you to focus on your core business.

Self Assessment

State whether the following statements are true or false:

1. A data service is an application that operates over a network typically, over the Internet.
2. Salesforce.com founded in March 1999 is the enterprise cloud computing leader.
3. IBM is offering a cloud computing solution.
4. Store anything your application needs in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

5. Decouple your application components by using the unlimited reliable messaging
provided by Amazon Simple Queue Service.

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