There are several popular commercial cloud products/services out there in the world. Here we will see only some (most popular) of these products/services.
Amazon Web Services [2]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a set of cloud services, providing compute, storage and other functionality that enable individuals or organizations to deploy their services on an on-demand basis and at commodity prices.engine.
Microsoft Azure [3]
Microsoft Windows Azure is a PaaS offering which provides windows based environment for running applications and storing data on servers in the data centers.
Google App Engine [4]
Google App Engine is a PaaS offering from Google which allows users to build and run applications on Google’s infrastructure. With app engine there is no need to maintain servers. We just need to upload our application and it’s ready to go.
IBM Bluemix [5]
Bluemix is the latest cloud offering from IBM which enables organizations and individuals to quickly and easily create, deploy, and manage applications on the cloud. Bluemix is an IBM’s implementation of Open Cloud Architecture based on Cloud Foundry, an open source Platform as a Service.
RightScale [6]
RightScale is SaaS based cloud portfolio management solution for managing cloud infrastructure across multiple IaaS providers. RightScale enables organizations to easily deploy and manage applications in the cloud.
Salesforce [7]
Salesforce CRM (Sales Cloud) is a SaaS offering which provides Customer Relationship Management (CRM) service for companies that want to track all their customer’s information and interactions in one place.
Dropbox [8]
Dropbox’s file hosting service is a SaaS offering which allows users to store share any kind of files. Files stored in a certain folder in client’s system are automatically synchronized to Dropbox’s cloud.
Aneka [9]
Aneka is a PaaS offering from Manjrasoft which supports development and deployment of applications on private and public clouds. It supports major programming models like Task programming, Thread programming and MapReduce programming.
GoGrid [10]
GoGrid is a cloud infrastructure service (IaaS), hosting Linux and Windows virtual machines managed by a multi-server control panel and a RESTful API.
References
[1] Q. Zhang, L. Cheng, and R. Boutaba, “Cloud computing: State-of-the-art and research challenges,” J. Internet Serv. Appl., vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 7–18, 2010.
[2] Amazon Web Services – https://aws.amazon.com/
[3] Microsoft Azure – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/
[4] Google App Engine – https://cloud.google.com/appengine/
[5] IBM Bluemix – https://console.ng.bluemix.net/catalog/
[6] RightScale – http://www.rightscale.com
[7] Salesforce – http://www.salesforce.com
[8] Dropbox – https://www.dropbox.com/
[9] Aneka – http://www.manjrasoft.com/products.html
[10] GoGrid – https://my.gogrid.com/
Suryateja Pericherla, at present is a Research Scholar (full-time Ph.D.) in the Dept. of Computer Science & Systems Engineering at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. Previously worked as an Associate Professor in the Dept. of CSE at Vishnu Institute of Technology, India.
He has 11+ years of teaching experience and is an individual researcher whose research interests are Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Computer Security, Network Security and Blockchain.
He is a member of professional societies like IEEE, ACM, CSI and ISCA. He published several research papers which are indexed by SCIE, WoS, Scopus, Springer and others.
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