Inventory 2014: Top Ten cloud services startups

Cloud technology has brought technological explosions, and its rapid development has created opportunities for startups to compete with traditional giants. Many of these startups are people who leave large companies and are technically experienced and, of course, ambitious young entrepreneurs who are leveraging the rapid iterations of the IT market to deliver services ranging from cloud infrastructure to mobile, analytical, and security solutions.

It's a brave new world, and startups think they have everything they need to grab the mainstream market share.

1. Firelayers: Guardian Gateway

Ceo:yair Grindlinger

Firelayers CEO Yair Grindlinger and his partner are working on a project that is related to enterprise security, when cloud services rose and destroyed everything a few years ago.

But Israeli experts have found the perfect opportunity, and they are quick to prepare for the idea of how to protect the business in the new IT field.

Firelayers found that security gateways such as applications are migrating to the cloud and beginning to develop tiered solutions for security applications.

The company has offices in Reid Redwood, California, Hozlia and Israel, and recently added a policy-based security gateway for all users on all devices that supports security, compliance, and government control in all cloud applications.

2. Mirantis: For the public to bring OpenStack platform

Ceo:adrian Lonel

If anyone can change the cloud, it's OpenStack, an open-source Laas cloud platform that could pose a huge threat to both dominant and proprietary public clouds.

Mirantis, once a system integrator to build a OpenStack cloud platform, now wants to be the world leader in OpenStack platform development.

To achieve this goal, the Californian company is trying to find ways to make its enterprise-class OpenStack distributions easier to deploy, manage, and upgrade. The company is winning business users, and the money is coming.

3. shippable: Used Linux containers before they became famous

Ceo:avi Cavale

Shippable is not as prominent as the other startups on the list, but the continued integration service provider is worth remembering because it discovers the advantages of the Linux container when its peers do not know the Linux container.

Luckily for the Shippable team, a project called Docker came along as they began to struggle to develop their own containers, bringing a pre-packaged solution to the team.

Shippable builds a continuous consolidation and transport platform from the Docker container to enable developers to consolidate and test their code before deployment. The Seattle company wants to infiltrate the enterprise's internal deployment structure or public cloud.

4. Docker: Disrupting development operations

Ceo:ben Golub

This year belongs to Docker.

At the beginning of the 2014, the Docker container was not the hottest technology, and now seems to be their age, especially the mainstream cloud service providers.

The Open-source Project released its first enterprise version in June, and was the star of the Google and AWS Cloud Conference at the end of the year.

Google believes that standard Docker containers may affect the cloud more than other technologies in the near-period.

5. Xplenty: Simplifying Large data processes

Ceo:yaniv Mor

The Israeli company, backed by Waze investors, is trying to make it easier for the cloud to use Hadoop to process data, making Hadoop completely transparent to users.

Although Hadoop provides a powerful open source platform for massive data processing on distributed systems, it is not easy for anyone to start with, and this is Xplenty's foothold.

Xplenty can remove coding features and make technical terminology easier for ordinary users to understand, and the graphical user interface replaces those unintelligible things.

6. Digitalocean: Enter the LaaS fray

Ceo:ben Uretsky

The battle over the clouds has gone into overdrive, and it is hard to understand why newcomers are looking to get involved in this bloody battle field. But a start-up in New York, Digitalocean, has got some heavyweight investments and believes it can make the cloud more user-friendly to developers by simplifying the complexity of the web's structure and focusing on the user experience.

At the same time, Digitalocean is not afraid of any giant in the industry, through cheap virtual Private servers (also known as droplets) to open their own space.

7. Cloudsigma: Provides a "green" cloud

Ceo:robert Jenkins

The Swiss supplier of Laas in Europe and the United States, including Hawaii, offers high-availability and highly flexible enterprise-class hybrid cloud services and cloud hosting solutions.

In addition, because it hosts its own infrastructure in the Equinix data center, it can provide dedicated high-speed connectivity to its cloud services, bypassing public networks to reduce security concerns for some customers, while at the same time building a hybrid cloud.

Based on the English Channel, you will enjoy a company that emphasizes environmental responsibility and provides carbon and servers.

8. Elasticbox: Easy application development environment

Ceo:ravi Srivasav

Elasticbox, like Docker, staked the stakes on the container.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, Elasticbox, the company makes it easy for experts and developers to develop applications together by centralizing all components of the application stack into a modular, service-based application development process.

This devops-oriented technology focuses on the reuse of application components and carries powerful coordination and container tools such as Chef, Puppet, ansible, salt, and Docker.

9. Treasure Data: A cloud-based end-to-end solution

Ceo:hiro Yoshikawa

The company, which is located in California, has a lot of connections with the capital markets to provide data processing services in the cloud similar to the SaaS platform.

It is an end-to-end solution focused on collecting, storing, and analyzing large data collected from various locations, from mobile devices to sensors.

Although Treasure's first customers analyzed data from advertising and mobile devices, the emerging internet of things has made it grow.

Treasure data will be hosted in AWS and some of Japan's datacenter.

Skyhigh NX: Making Shadow it visible

Ceo:rajiv Gupta

The start-up company, located in Cupertino, California, focuses on situational access controls (contextual access control) and application reviews (creator auditing).

Skyhigh's cloud-based security software scans the entire network and identifies the cloud services that all employees use, especially those that disregard corporate rules. This is another weapon in the shadow it fight.

While companies provide encryption and prevent data loss technologies, Skyhigh is more inclined to protect data, infrastructure, and mission-critical applications through authentication management and contact control based on end-user location and other factors.

The Venture company works with Palo Alto Network and works with cryptographic technology, tokenization supplier SafeNet.

Original link: The coolest Cloud Startups of 2014 (compilation/Wenjia Zebian/Zhonghao)

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