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TABLE 12.1 IaaS vendors and their solutions (continued)

Vendor Solution/Product

Joyent SmartDataCenter, Compute Service, Manta Storage, Private Cloud

Rackspace Range of cloud products: servers, storage, load balancers,

backup/archival, monitoring, and network
OpenStack

Eucalyptus Systems Eucalyptus Cloud

Verizon Range of cloud products: compute and storage

Terremark Enterprise cloud products including compute, storage, and

network

Akamai Range of cloud products: servers, storage, load balancers,

monitoring, and network

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

PaaS provides the capability for consumers to have applications deployed without the bur-
den and cost of buying and managing the hardware and software. These are web-accessible
applications or services created using standard languages and tools supported by the PaaS
provider. The PaaS service consumer has control over the deployed application or service
and even the hosting environment in particular circumstances. Services can be provisioned
as integrated solutions over the Web, offering a quick time to market. PaaS facilitates
immediate business requirements such as application design, development, and testing at
a fraction of the normal cost. Most popular PaaS vendors and their solutions are shown in
Table 12.2.

TABLE 12.2 PaaS vendors and their solutions

Vendor Solution/Product

Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

Appistry CloudIQ

CA Technologies AppLogic

Flexiant FlexiScale (mostly video streaming, social networking,

IPTV, VoIP)