Rene Buest is Gartner Analyst covering Infrastructure Services & Digital Operations. Prior to that he was Director of Technology Research at Arago, Senior Analyst and Cloud Practice Lead at Crisp Research, Principal Analyst at New Age Disruption and member of the worldwide Gigaom Research Analyst Network. Rene is considered as top cloud computing analyst in Germany and one of the worldwide top analysts in this area. In addition, he is one of the world’s top cloud computing influencers and belongs to the top 100 cloud computing experts on Twitter and Google+. Since the mid-90s he is focused on the strategic use of information technology in businesses and the IT impact on our society as well as disruptive technologies.
Rene Buest is the author of numerous professional technology articles. He regularly writes for well-known IT publications like Computerwoche, CIO Magazin, LANline as well as Silicon.de and is cited in German and international media – including New York Times, Forbes Magazin, Handelsblatt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Wirtschaftswoche, Computerwoche, CIO, Manager Magazin and Harvard Business Manager. Furthermore Rene Buest is speaker and participant of experts rounds. He is founder of CloudUser.de and writes about cloud computing, IT infrastructure, technologies, management and strategies. He holds a diploma in computer engineering from the Hochschule Bremen (Dipl.-Informatiker (FH)) as well as a M.Sc. in IT-Management and Information Systems from the FHDW Paderborn.
Planio ist die perfekte Basis für die Planung und Durchführung von Projekten.
Zu den Hauptfunktionen zählen u.a. ein Ticket-System inkl. Zeiterfassung, gemeinsame Dateiverwaltung, Wikis und Foren, ein Nachrichtensystem, Milestones, sowie automatisch erstellte Gantt-Diagramme und Roadmaps.
Dropbox is a Web-based file hosting service operated by Dropbox, Inc. that uses cloud computing to enable users to store and share files and folders with others across the Internet using file synchronization. It was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi as a Y Combinator startup. (source: Wikipedia)
With customers in 100 countries across the globe, Jungle Disk, LLC provides a secure and flexible way to store, share, and sync files online. IT professionals and enthusiasts alike use Jungle Disk and have recommended it for individuals and organizations of all sizes. Because it leverages the Rackspace and Amazon S3™ infrastructures, Jungle Disk provides reliability and unlimited scalability for any level of data storage. Founded in 2007, Jungle Disk is based in Atlanta, GA, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rackspace US, Inc.
SteamCannon ist ein auf Cloud Computing ausgerichteter PaaS Broker, der sich zwischen dem Entwickler und einem Stack von IaaS Ressourcen, wie z.B. Amazon EC2, befindet.
Dabei hilft SteamCannon unterschiedlichen PaaS Umgebungen die individuellen Bedürfnisse und Arbeitsabläufe eines Entwicklers zu unterstützen. Nach kurzer Zeit sollen damit neue Java und Ruby Plattformen konfiguriert werden, um anschließend darüber Anwendungen bereitstellen zu können.
Successful online services have millions of users, and serving that many users means scaling applications to hundreds and often thousands of servers. Running that many servers also requires at least that many networking and storage devices, adding to the challenge. For this reason, scaling online applications is an enormously difficult problem.
3Tera, now part of CA Technologies, has solved this problem by harnessing the power of grid computing. CA 3Tera AppLogic is the first turnkey cloud computing platform that runs and scales existing real-world web applications on grids of commodity servers. Partnering with leading hosting providers, this breakthrough technology enables true utility computing for the first time. AppLogic makes it possible to visually assemble existing software directly into portable applications that run on any grid and scale from a fraction of a server to hundreds of servers with a single command.
Founded in 2004 and based in Aliso Viejo, California, 3Tera was acquired by CA Technologies in March 2010.
9Apps does two things. They setup and maintain virtual infrastructures (Amazon AWS, Eucalyptus) for a select group of customers. And, in order to service these customers, they build cloud tools to help doing this.
Windows Azure™ is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft® datacenters.
Windows Azure is a flexible platform that supports multiple languages and integrates with your existing on-premises environment. To build applications and services on Windows Azure, developers can use their existing Microsoft Visual Studio® expertise. In addition, Windows Azure supports popular standards, protocols and languages including SOAP, REST, XML, Java, PHP and Ruby. Windows Azure is now commercially available in 40 countries.
Dell Boomi is the market-leading provider of on-demand integration technology and the creator of AtomSphere®, the industry’s #1 Integration Cloud™. AtomSphere connects providers and customers of SaaS, cloud and on-premise applications via a pure SaaS integration platform that does not require software or appliances. ISVs and businesses alike benefit by connecting to the industry’s largest network of SaaS, PaaS, on-premise and cloud computing environments in a seamless and fully self-service model. Leading SaaS players and enterprise customers such as salesforce.com, NetSuite, RightNow, Marketo, Taleo, Zuora, Coupa, NASDAQ and Web MD rely on AtomSphere to accelerate time to market, increase sales, and eliminate the headaches associated with integration.
Founded in 2000, Stoneware is in the business of developing web-based, data-center delivery products that break down the technological barriers between people and the digital resources they need to be more productive.
Abiquo is a leading provider of Cloud management solutions. Abiquo envisions a future where private and public Clouds are fully interoperable and vendor neutral. The company embraces an open-source model where both community users and commercial organizations can fully benefit from the Cloud revolution.
Founded by Diego Marino and Xavier Fernández in 2006, Abiquo developed a number of breakthrough techniques to manage and secure Cloud computing. Since its first pre-release in April 2009, Abiquo has been extensively tested by the open source community and by many commercial organizations, including a number of Global 1000 companies. Enthusiastic support from its users, many of whom discontinued projects with other Cloud management vendors, allowed Abiquo to attract both internationally renowned management, and substantial funding.
In February 2010, Abiquo formally released a Community Edition focusing on the open source community, and an Enterprise Edition to meet the needs of commercial organizations.