10 startup clouds to watch out in 2012

Cloud.....as we all know is starting to get famous and it may have a big role in the way internet is used in future. So, here are some of the cloud companies that have launched in 2011 and must be watched in 2012 :

1.Zillabyte:

Zillabyte was co-founded by two former google engineers and a former intel engineer.Zillabyte is still operating in its Beta version. Basically, zillabyte wants to provide users with data stes as well as algorithms needed to process them. Usually data sets do not come with algorithms and a processing backend on the internet.The service is initially focused on web data and text-based algorithms but there's plenty of growth to see in future.

2.Solidfire:

Solidfire wants to target the large enterprises who want to run mission-critical applications on the cloud. The company targets cloud providers with SSD-based storage systems that make it possible to store virtual machine images in the cloud and still deliver high performance. Cloud providers using Solidfire can host a lot more relational databases and other applications that presently remain in house.

 3.ScaleXtreme:

These days we need server-management software, but not all can get the expensive software from traditional market vendors. ScaleXtreme provides the facility to manage both physical and cloud based servers. It has attracted many cloud providers recently with this idea.

4.Parse:

Parse is aiming to be a PaaS specialist for mobie apps . There are big contenders for Parse at the moment such as Heroku and Appfog, but still it seems to have the right idea to give a competition to them. It has a frontend designed for mobile developers and a backend focused on the needs of mobile applications.

5.Nebula:

Its founded by a former NASA CTO Chris Kemp and the investors are David Cheriton, Andy Bechtolsheim and Ram Shriram.Nebula is a company publishing a commercial version of the open-source OpenStack cloud computing software. Nebula ties OpenStack to an optimised hardware platform designed to make building public clouds a plug-and-play experience.


6.Kaggle:

Kaggle is a crowdsourcing platform for solving big data challenges. Its all about the hottest thing going in big data right now. Here's how it works : Although not everyone has data scientists in the house, there are plenty of them floating around the world. They are happy enough to put their skills
to work on a problem for cash prizes and a little bit of credit. It takes a lot of computing power to host hundreds of teams on any given competition, as well as the data sets, which is why Kaggle utilizes Microsoft Windows Azure cloud.


7.CloudSigma:

The company is all about giving customers high performance and lots of control. CloudSigma sits in the impressive SuperNAP data center and offers 10 GbE interconnects as well as solid-state
drives, and developers can buy and manage resources with the granular control normally found in co-location.The Infrastructure-as-a-Service space is a tough racket to enter because it means competing with the likes of Amazon Web Services and Rackspace.



8.Cloudability:

Cloudability provides a simple service with a lot of value: it monitors customers’ spending on cloud computing resources. It might uncover something as commonplace as cloud-server sprawl because so many employees are spinning up instances, or it might find something nefarious such as hackers using a company’s instances serve boatloads of network traffic. As use of cloud services proliferates, companies will need an easy tool to help them keep track of what they’re spending and where.


9.Bromium:

Little is known about Bromium other than that is plans to use virtualization technology as a tool for securing the myriad endpoints (e.g., desktops, mobile phones and tablets) that connect to enterprise networks. While securing cloud servers, as other startups such as CloudPassage attempt to do, is important, the advent of consumerization means endpoints need security. Among Bromium’s founders is Simon Crosby, who co-founded XenSource and served as virtualization CTO at Citrix Systems.


10.AppFog:

AppFog is one of a handful of Platform-as-a-Service startups to launch in 2011, but AppFog is unique because it leverages the open-source Cloud Foundry code as its core. The switch to a Cloud Foundry foundation over the summer resulted in a name change from PHP Fog, as the company was immediately able to support numerous new programming languages. Going forward, AppFog can ride Cloud Foundry’s development wave, while focusing its own efforts on building the best user experience.