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CloudPassage, Inc. is a developer of an automated security platform designed to protect servers in public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. The company's flagship product, CloudPassage Halo, is delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that offers features such as dynamic firewall automation, software vulnerability assessment, and multi-factor authentication. Halo consists of several components, including the Halo Daemon, which monitors server security, the Halo Grid for data analytics, and the Halo Portal for management. This platform enables enterprises to achieve continuous visibility and protection while ensuring compliance with security standards. Notable clients include Citrix, Salesforce.com, and Adobe. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, CloudPassage is supported by several prominent investment firms.

Scale Computing, Inc. specializes in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions tailored for midsized companies. The company’s flagship product, the HC3 platform, consolidates servers, storage, and virtualization into a single, integrated system that simplifies management and enhances application performance. By leveraging self-healing and automation technologies, HC3 minimizes downtime and reduces the complexities associated with traditional IT infrastructure, such as separate virtualization and disaster recovery software. This approach allows organizations to improve application uptime while lowering overall costs. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Scale Computing aims to enable clients to focus on application management rather than infrastructure concerns.

CloudPassage, Inc. is a developer of an automated security platform designed to protect servers in public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. The company's flagship product, CloudPassage Halo, is delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that offers features such as dynamic firewall automation, software vulnerability assessment, and multi-factor authentication. Halo consists of several components, including the Halo Daemon, which monitors server security, the Halo Grid for data analytics, and the Halo Portal for management. This platform enables enterprises to achieve continuous visibility and protection while ensuring compliance with security standards. Notable clients include Citrix, Salesforce.com, and Adobe. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, CloudPassage is supported by several prominent investment firms.

Scale Computing, Inc. specializes in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions tailored for midsized companies. The company’s flagship product, the HC3 platform, consolidates servers, storage, and virtualization into a single, integrated system that simplifies management and enhances application performance. By leveraging self-healing and automation technologies, HC3 minimizes downtime and reduces the complexities associated with traditional IT infrastructure, such as separate virtualization and disaster recovery software. This approach allows organizations to improve application uptime while lowering overall costs. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Scale Computing aims to enable clients to focus on application management rather than infrastructure concerns.

Eucalyptus Systems specializes in developing open-source software that enables enterprises and technology businesses to build AWS-compatible private and hybrid clouds. Its flagship product, the Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs to Useful Systems (EUCALYPTUS), supports industry-standard AWS APIs, including EC2, S3, EBS, and IAM, making it particularly suitable for enterprise clouds. Organizations worldwide utilize Eucalyptus to achieve the agility, elasticity, and scalability necessary for demanding applications. The company is committed to fostering a successful ecosystem that includes customers, partners, developers, and researchers, providing a flexible pathway to cloud computing.

CloudPassage, Inc. is a developer of an automated security platform designed to protect servers in public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. The company's flagship product, CloudPassage Halo, is delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that offers features such as dynamic firewall automation, software vulnerability assessment, and multi-factor authentication. Halo consists of several components, including the Halo Daemon, which monitors server security, the Halo Grid for data analytics, and the Halo Portal for management. This platform enables enterprises to achieve continuous visibility and protection while ensuring compliance with security standards. Notable clients include Citrix, Salesforce.com, and Adobe. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, CloudPassage is supported by several prominent investment firms.

Xeround is an elastic, always-on database-as-a-service for your MySQL applications. * Scalability & Elasticity - Scale up or out automatically * Maintain High Availability * Available for both public and private clouds With the rise of cloud computing and “big data”, database scalability issues are becoming critical to the growth and success of many applications. Xeround's vision is to enable truly scalable and elastic cloud computing infrastructure by providing the missing piece: elastic data management within a cloud and data federation across clouds. Service providers, ISVs and customers in the cloud ecosystem encounter various database challenges including the need for elastic usage, slow response times, and data synchronization. Xeround’s patented technology brings a new approach to data management in the cloud, providing both the transactional and query capabilities of relational databases, along with the simplicity and scalability as of NoSQL data stores. Designed and Architected for the cloud, Xeround’s database solution effectively manages multi-tenancy, high-availability, auto-scaling and self-healing, while guaranteeing continuous service during schema changes, resource modifications and the scaling process. Xeround is headquartered in Mountain View, CA with development in Israel. It is funded by Benchmark Capital, Ignition Partners, Trilogy Partnership and Giza Venture Capital.

CloudPassage, Inc. is a developer of an automated security platform designed to protect servers in public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. The company's flagship product, CloudPassage Halo, is delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that offers features such as dynamic firewall automation, software vulnerability assessment, and multi-factor authentication. Halo consists of several components, including the Halo Daemon, which monitors server security, the Halo Grid for data analytics, and the Halo Portal for management. This platform enables enterprises to achieve continuous visibility and protection while ensuring compliance with security standards. Notable clients include Citrix, Salesforce.com, and Adobe. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, CloudPassage is supported by several prominent investment firms.

DotCloud is a 2nd-generation platform-as-a-service, and is the commercial entity behind Docker.io. Docker is an open source engine that makes it possible to pack, ship, and run any application as a lightweight container.

Eucalyptus Systems specializes in developing open-source software that enables enterprises and technology businesses to build AWS-compatible private and hybrid clouds. Its flagship product, the Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs to Useful Systems (EUCALYPTUS), supports industry-standard AWS APIs, including EC2, S3, EBS, and IAM, making it particularly suitable for enterprise clouds. Organizations worldwide utilize Eucalyptus to achieve the agility, elasticity, and scalability necessary for demanding applications. The company is committed to fostering a successful ecosystem that includes customers, partners, developers, and researchers, providing a flexible pathway to cloud computing.

Scale Computing, Inc. specializes in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions tailored for midsized companies. The company’s flagship product, the HC3 platform, consolidates servers, storage, and virtualization into a single, integrated system that simplifies management and enhances application performance. By leveraging self-healing and automation technologies, HC3 minimizes downtime and reduces the complexities associated with traditional IT infrastructure, such as separate virtualization and disaster recovery software. This approach allows organizations to improve application uptime while lowering overall costs. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Scale Computing aims to enable clients to focus on application management rather than infrastructure concerns.

Eucalyptus Systems specializes in developing open-source software that enables enterprises and technology businesses to build AWS-compatible private and hybrid clouds. Its flagship product, the Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs to Useful Systems (EUCALYPTUS), supports industry-standard AWS APIs, including EC2, S3, EBS, and IAM, making it particularly suitable for enterprise clouds. Organizations worldwide utilize Eucalyptus to achieve the agility, elasticity, and scalability necessary for demanding applications. The company is committed to fostering a successful ecosystem that includes customers, partners, developers, and researchers, providing a flexible pathway to cloud computing.

Xeround is an elastic, always-on database-as-a-service for your MySQL applications. * Scalability & Elasticity - Scale up or out automatically * Maintain High Availability * Available for both public and private clouds With the rise of cloud computing and “big data”, database scalability issues are becoming critical to the growth and success of many applications. Xeround's vision is to enable truly scalable and elastic cloud computing infrastructure by providing the missing piece: elastic data management within a cloud and data federation across clouds. Service providers, ISVs and customers in the cloud ecosystem encounter various database challenges including the need for elastic usage, slow response times, and data synchronization. Xeround’s patented technology brings a new approach to data management in the cloud, providing both the transactional and query capabilities of relational databases, along with the simplicity and scalability as of NoSQL data stores. Designed and Architected for the cloud, Xeround’s database solution effectively manages multi-tenancy, high-availability, auto-scaling and self-healing, while guaranteeing continuous service during schema changes, resource modifications and the scaling process. Xeround is headquartered in Mountain View, CA with development in Israel. It is funded by Benchmark Capital, Ignition Partners, Trilogy Partnership and Giza Venture Capital.

An acronym for the Global Hosted Operating SysTem, G.ho.st (pronounced "ghost") is a free virtual computer that hosts all of your data and applications on the web so that they are accessible from any Internet browser and not tied down locally to any one computer. G.ho.st combines multiple web software applications in their virtual computer to provide users with a web desktop, webmail, online file system, 15 GB of storage, single sign in, and sharing. The company also makes sure to keep users' globally hosted files/applications secure and backed up. Recently founded in 2006, G.ho.st is self-funded by company founder and CEO Zvi Schreiber. G.ho.st actually launched in 2007 and is currently in public Alpha. The company plans on releasing a Beta version later in 2007. Not only is it unique in its vision to create a free, fully functional, and globally accessible virtual computer, G.ho.st is also unique for putting together a collaborative team in the heart of the Middle East. With a wall at the West Bank dividing them in two, the G.ho.st team is comprised of both Israelis and Palestinians, and prides itself on collaboration. The company should be lauded for their efforts to bridge the differences between the two sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as they have also pledged 10% of their founding equity to a G.ho.st Peace Foundation. Primary competitors: [eyeOS](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eyeOS), [Desktoptwo](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/desktoptwo), and [YouOS](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/youos). Ghost.cc is going to shutdown December 9 ,2010 and G.ho.st is going to be back and everything will be the way it was back then when it was a web based os

As of July 14, 2008, Qlusters, Inc. went out of business. Qlusters, Inc. Qlusters, Inc. provides data center technology and services. The company offers openQRM, a data center provisioning and management software for software provisioning and managing virtual environments. Qlusters, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; and New York, New York.

Hyperic specializes in monitoring and management software designed for web applications, applicable to both cloud-hosted and on-premise environments. The company's solutions enable organizations to effectively oversee the performance and reliability of their applications, facilitating improved operational efficiency and user experience. By offering tools that cater to various deployment models, Hyperic supports businesses in maintaining optimal application performance and addressing potential issues proactively.

Xeround is an elastic, always-on database-as-a-service for your MySQL applications. * Scalability & Elasticity - Scale up or out automatically * Maintain High Availability * Available for both public and private clouds With the rise of cloud computing and “big data”, database scalability issues are becoming critical to the growth and success of many applications. Xeround's vision is to enable truly scalable and elastic cloud computing infrastructure by providing the missing piece: elastic data management within a cloud and data federation across clouds. Service providers, ISVs and customers in the cloud ecosystem encounter various database challenges including the need for elastic usage, slow response times, and data synchronization. Xeround’s patented technology brings a new approach to data management in the cloud, providing both the transactional and query capabilities of relational databases, along with the simplicity and scalability as of NoSQL data stores. Designed and Architected for the cloud, Xeround’s database solution effectively manages multi-tenancy, high-availability, auto-scaling and self-healing, while guaranteeing continuous service during schema changes, resource modifications and the scaling process. Xeround is headquartered in Mountain View, CA with development in Israel. It is funded by Benchmark Capital, Ignition Partners, Trilogy Partnership and Giza Venture Capital.

Blue Lane Technologies, Inc. provides vulnerability shields for physical and virtual server infrastructure. It protects various operating systems, applications, and databases at the application layer. The company's products include VirtualShield, which offers protection, including application-aware firewalling, inter-VM flow visibility and analytics, application policy control, and intrusion prevention; and ServerShield, a network security appliance. Its solutions secure servers and VMs. The company serves financial services, healthcare, high tech, hosting, and retail industries. Blue Lane Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Cupertino, California. As of September 30, 2008, Blue Lane Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of VMware, Inc.

Hyperic specializes in monitoring and management software designed for web applications, applicable to both cloud-hosted and on-premise environments. The company's solutions enable organizations to effectively oversee the performance and reliability of their applications, facilitating improved operational efficiency and user experience. By offering tools that cater to various deployment models, Hyperic supports businesses in maintaining optimal application performance and addressing potential issues proactively.

Xeround is an elastic, always-on database-as-a-service for your MySQL applications. * Scalability & Elasticity - Scale up or out automatically * Maintain High Availability * Available for both public and private clouds With the rise of cloud computing and “big data”, database scalability issues are becoming critical to the growth and success of many applications. Xeround's vision is to enable truly scalable and elastic cloud computing infrastructure by providing the missing piece: elastic data management within a cloud and data federation across clouds. Service providers, ISVs and customers in the cloud ecosystem encounter various database challenges including the need for elastic usage, slow response times, and data synchronization. Xeround’s patented technology brings a new approach to data management in the cloud, providing both the transactional and query capabilities of relational databases, along with the simplicity and scalability as of NoSQL data stores. Designed and Architected for the cloud, Xeround’s database solution effectively manages multi-tenancy, high-availability, auto-scaling and self-healing, while guaranteeing continuous service during schema changes, resource modifications and the scaling process. Xeround is headquartered in Mountain View, CA with development in Israel. It is funded by Benchmark Capital, Ignition Partners, Trilogy Partnership and Giza Venture Capital.

Blue Lane Technologies, Inc. provides vulnerability shields for physical and virtual server infrastructure. It protects various operating systems, applications, and databases at the application layer. The company's products include VirtualShield, which offers protection, including application-aware firewalling, inter-VM flow visibility and analytics, application policy control, and intrusion prevention; and ServerShield, a network security appliance. Its solutions secure servers and VMs. The company serves financial services, healthcare, high tech, hosting, and retail industries. Blue Lane Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Cupertino, California. As of September 30, 2008, Blue Lane Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of VMware, Inc.

Avamar Technologies develops enterprise data protection software solutions for corporations, medium to large-sized businesses, and multinational enterprises. The company offers Axion, a disk backup and recovery solution that allows corporations to move, store, and leverage data on a server. It also provides business continuity and disaster recovery, data security and encryption, remote office protection, and legal discovery and support for regulatory compliance solutions. The company, formerly known as Undoo.com, was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Irvine, California with sales offices in San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, and New York.

As of July 14, 2008, Qlusters, Inc. went out of business. Qlusters, Inc. Qlusters, Inc. provides data center technology and services. The company offers openQRM, a data center provisioning and management software for software provisioning and managing virtual environments. Qlusters, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; and New York, New York.

Blue Lane Technologies, Inc. provides vulnerability shields for physical and virtual server infrastructure. It protects various operating systems, applications, and databases at the application layer. The company's products include VirtualShield, which offers protection, including application-aware firewalling, inter-VM flow visibility and analytics, application policy control, and intrusion prevention; and ServerShield, a network security appliance. Its solutions secure servers and VMs. The company serves financial services, healthcare, high tech, hosting, and retail industries. Blue Lane Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Cupertino, California. As of September 30, 2008, Blue Lane Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of VMware, Inc.

Neartek offers Virtual Storage Engine, a virtual tape software solution that focuses on the backup and restore operations for open system environments. It enables information technology organizations to implement disk-based data protection strategies. Neartek was acquired by EMC in September 2006. Neartek was founded in 1994 and is based in Westborough, Massachusetts.

As of July 14, 2008, Qlusters, Inc. went out of business. Qlusters, Inc. Qlusters, Inc. provides data center technology and services. The company offers openQRM, a data center provisioning and management software for software provisioning and managing virtual environments. Qlusters, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; and New York, New York.

Neartek offers Virtual Storage Engine, a virtual tape software solution that focuses on the backup and restore operations for open system environments. It enables information technology organizations to implement disk-based data protection strategies. Neartek was acquired by EMC in September 2006. Neartek was founded in 1994 and is based in Westborough, Massachusetts.

Avamar Technologies develops enterprise data protection software solutions for corporations, medium to large-sized businesses, and multinational enterprises. The company offers Axion, a disk backup and recovery solution that allows corporations to move, store, and leverage data on a server. It also provides business continuity and disaster recovery, data security and encryption, remote office protection, and legal discovery and support for regulatory compliance solutions. The company, formerly known as Undoo.com, was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Irvine, California with sales offices in San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, and New York.

Red Hat, Inc. is a leading provider of open source software solutions, primarily known for its enterprise operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The company offers a comprehensive range of products that support operating system, virtualization, management, middleware, cloud, mobile, and storage technologies for enterprises globally. Key offerings include Red Hat Satellite for system management, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for managing hardware infrastructure, and Red Hat JBoss Middleware for application development and integration. Additionally, Red Hat provides cloud solutions that facilitate the creation and management of cloud computing environments, along with a mobile development platform to support enterprise applications. The company also delivers consulting, support, and training services. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, Red Hat has established itself as a significant player in the IT landscape, focusing on secure and innovative business technologies, including Kubernetes and container services.