Congrats to our Final Four!
The community has spoken…
Below are the 3 minute video submissions by the Four Finalists chosen by the Cloud Connect community. These Finalists will present live on keynote stage and demo on the show floor with our attendees via a complimentary demo pod at the Cloud Connect Conference on March 15th - 18th, 2010. See additional information about the final four prizes.
Appirio
http://www.appirio.com
Appirio, a cloud solution provider, is launching the world’s first social services management application for the enterprise, powered by Force.com Chatter. The success or failure of a services team depends on effective collaboration. Today, that collaboration is completely disconnected from the business systems of a company. What if your enterprise applications became social– able to contribute to a conversation about business events? And what if that conversation occurred in a real-time stream conversation stream, just like Facebook? That’s Social PS Enterprise.
CloudSwitch
http://www.cloudswitch.com
CloudSwitch enables enterprises to move their existing applications to the right cloud computing environment—securely, simply and without changes. With CloudSwitch, applications remain tightly integrated with enterprise data center tools and policies, and can be moved easily between different cloud environments and back into the data center based on the requirements of the business. CloudSwitch protects enterprises from the complexity, risks and potential lock-in of cloud computing, freeing them to leverage the cloud’s advantages in cost and business agility.
Drawn to Scale
http://www.drawntoscalehq.com
The Complete Data Platform. Process, store, query, search, and serve all your data. To all your users. It Just Works. Leave concerns behind about building a reliable, fast, scalable data infrastructure, so you can focus on building your business. It’s built differently, from the bottom up, to do exactly what you need with your data without getting in your way. Our platform makes working with your data a joy, at any scale. Vote for us, and let’s change the world together!
MaxiScale
http://www.maxiscale.com
MaxiScale’s cloud-scale file serving and storage platform is a breakthrough for Internet data centers and storage infrastructure that fundamentally changes the economics of deploying Web-scale applications. The FLEX Software Platform addresses the unpredictable and expanding data requirements facing companies that deliver Internet applications via public and private clouds. It enables customers to reduce capital and operational costs while improving performance by an order of magnitude over competing solutions. MaxiScale’s innovative Peer Set™ architecture and single disk I/O small file operations allow data centers to linearly scale a single namespace to hundreds of petabytes, eliminate forklift upgrades and reduce disk spindle counts by a factor of 10.