Public Clouds

KT's cloud offering (ucloud service) includes CloudStack based compute, Openstack Swift based object storage, KT CDN and other cloud capabilities based from KT's data centers in South Korea.

Cloudant offers fully managed and hosted CouchDB hostings. To do so, they have forked the open source CouchDB project and created BigCouch, which while backwords compatible with CouchDB requests, supports more advanced clustering capabilities.

Cloud Central is a cloud server provider based out of Australia. From their data center throughput and latency is very good to Australia and other APAC locations. Cloud Central offers on-demand pricing for cloud servers from 256MB-15.5GB in size.

Zerigo offers VPS (monthly) and cloud servers (hourly) out of it's Denver, CO data center. They offer servers from 256MB-4GB. They also offer DNS and "Watchdog" monitoring services.

AgileCLOUD offer cloud virtual and bare metal compute and object storage from their New York, Dallas, Santa Clara, Amsterdam and Singapore data centers.

Lunacloud is an European pure-play cloud services provider focusing on delivering reliable, elastic and low cost cloud infrastructure services (IaaS), on which you can run your operating systems and applications or store your data.

Dynomesh is a 100% Australian owned and operated high performance cloud hosting company, based in Melbourne. They offer on-demand compute resources, load balancing and shared MySQL and Mongo database services.

ElasticHosts is a US-based cloud server provider. They have 2 data centers in the UK and expanded recently to a 3rd in Texas. Although they offer on-demand pricing, they steer users towards monthly which are 50% less per hour than on demand.

Logicworks, based in lower Manhattan NYC, has provided managed hosting solutions since around 2002. They now offer variations of both managed and cloud services include hybrid clouds, private clouds, and their public cloud service Logicworks Cloud.

OpSource is a VMware-based cloud provider. They offer cloud servers and storage with on-demand pricing. Their web management UI is intuitive and they also offer an API.

Microsoft is a late arrival to the cloud market, but is now dedicating significant resources to their Azure cloud services. Azure offers a .NET Platform, Storage, CDN, SQL Server Database and Messaging services, all available with on-demand pricing.

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Ninefold is an Australian cloud provider with support for both Linux and Windows servers.

Salesforce offers cloud services: Force.com lets users define and manage databases, forms, etc. using a browser GUI. Database.com is a cloud based relational database - basically Force.com without a GUI and more flexible and affordable API usage options.

Joyent launched in 2005 as a platform for sharing business data. In 2007 they offered application-focused virtualized environments called "accelerators". Today they offer daily billed SmartMachines (OpenSolaris servers) and a javascript "SmartPlatform".

GoGrid is an infrastructure-as-a-service provider specializing in Public and Private cloud solutions. Services include cloud & dedicated servers, load balancing, cloud storage, firewall, CDN, public & private networks all managed via a web portal or API.

Flexiscale is a UK-based cloud server provider that originally launched in 2007. They revamped their service in 2010 to the "Flexiscale 2.0" platform offering upgraded hardware and better performance. They price their service using a pre-pay point system.

Terremark was one of the first providers of VMware's vCloud Express cloud platform. In addition to vCloud, they also offer enterprise VMware solutions. They operate out of the NAP data center in Miami, FL.

WebAppCabaret is a Load Balanced platform for deploying JAVA, GRAILS, Ruby/Rails, PHP, Python/Django, and CFML applications. It runs on top infrastructures of GoGrid, Softlayer, and others. Users are able to simply drag-and-drop applications to the Cloud.

BareMetalCloud is one of very few IaaS providers offering "bare-metal" cloud servers. These servers are deployed onto physical servers using real-time disk re-imaging.

CloudProviderUSA offers cloud servers from their data centers in Miami and Amsterdam. Their features include automatic hardware fault tolerance and dynamic VM resizing. They also utilize SSDs exclusively for instance storage providing fast IO throughput.

CloudSigma is an IaaS cloud provider based out of Switzerland. Their cloud servers have no fixed instance sizes, offer full root control with a free choice of operating systems and open networking. Latency within the EU is generally very good.

Cotendo is a Anycast content delivery network. Their focus is more on the enterprise market, offering not only CDN, but also dynamic site acceleration, DNS, CDN balancing and other features. Pricing is negotiated based on a monthly commit.

City Cloud is a leading Scandinavian IaaS provider. They offer cloud servers ranging in size from 0.5 GB to 16 GB and 1-8 processor cores. They also include 1000 GB bandwidth with all instances.

Hosting.com offers a variety of services from website hosting, to various flavors of cloud (Express, Enterprise, Private), dedicated hosting and co-location. Hosting.com virtualization infrastructure is based on VMWare.

Rackspace has been providing managed dedicated hosting since 1998. The Rackspace Cloud was launched in 2009 after Rackspace acquired VPS provider Slicehost. Their cloud services currently includes servers, storage and Limelight CDN.

SoftLayer got its start with managed dedicated hosting in 2006. They own and operate 3 data centers in Texas, Seattle and DC. SoftLayer began offering cloud services in 2009 including Servers, Storage and Internap's CDN service.

Bluelock provides mid-size and large enterprises flexible IT infrastructure solutions with its Bluelock Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud.

AWS is the guerilla in the room in terms of cloud computing. It was initially created to enable better management of their own infrastructure. AWS offers Servers (EC2), Storage (S3), CDN (CloudFront), Databases (SimpleDB & RDS) and many advanced features.

Dediserve is a Xen-based IaaS provider with offices in the United Kingdom and Ireland. They offer both cloud server and virtual data center services.

StratoGen provides VMware cloud hosting services, managed servers and co-location. Their data centers are based in the UK.

Crucial Paradigm provides monthly Linux and Windows Cloud Servers/VPS in Australia.

ZettaGrid offers Australian cloud computing services, including Windows and Linux based IaaS server packages, cloud networks, virtual desktops and resource pools. Their services are designed using VMware's vCloud.

Open Hosting is a trusted and reliable provider of cloud hosting solutions based in Vienna, VA. Since 2003, they've been exclusively committed to cloud hosting using the Linux KVM virtualization stack.

Phoenix NAP is an infrastructure-as-a-service provider and primary network access point (NAP) for the Phoenix, AZ metro region. They offer colocation, dedicated server and cloud services.

Webair provides cloud and dedicated hosting services. Their feature set includes HA capabilities including redundant SAN storage and automatic hardware fault tolerance.

SmartCloud is IBM's fully managed IaaS offering. Through it, they offer compute and storage running within IBM data centers on IBM infrastructure. They lean more towards the enterprise market, requiring sales interaction in order to sign up.

Aruba is an Italian organization that offers cloud services in Italian data centers under the brand cloud.it. Aruba Cloud offers Windows and Linux cloud compute capacity.

IDC Frontier is an CloudStack based cloud provider based in Japan. They offer cloud compute services based out of their own data centers in Japan.

e24cloud provides cloud compute services based out of their Polish data centers. e24cloud allows users to create servers from 512MB to 64GB memory and 1 to 32 cores.

SHI Cloud provides enterprise managed private and multi-tenant compute cloud services. SHI Cloud is a subsidiary of SHI International, a global IT service organization with over 1700 employees.

connect.com.au provides an Australian cloud platform backed by the AAPT transit network. Services include Linux and Windows compute instances, CDN and Wifi services within the Australian market.