I recently found the following Cloud Computing Vendor List while researching the web.
| Cloud Vendor | Level | Type | Status | Cloud Provider | Notes |
| 3Tera | 3 | Server | Provider | Backbone | 3Teras host solutions and provides software for other host providers |
| Adobe Air | 1 | Application | Not a Provider | Backbone | Desktop play |
| Akamai | 0 | Server | Not a Provider | Software Based | CDN |
| Amazon EC2 | 2 | Server | Provider | Backbone | |
| Amazon S3 | 2 | Storage | Provider | Backbone | |
| Amazon SimpleDB | 2 | Database | Provider | Backbone | |
| Apache CouchDB | 2 | Database | Not a Provider | Software Based | IBM is involved |
| Apache Hadoop | 2 | Database | Not a Provider | Software Based | Hadoop is white-hot OSS enterprise search technology. |
| Areti Internet | 0 | Application | Provider | 3Tera | |
| Box-Net | 1 | Storage | Provider | Backbone | |
| Cassatt | 0 | Server | Not a Provider | Software Based | Utility based computing. Provides a very strong provisioning play along with robust power management. Utility providers can worth within clouds or outside of clouds (e.g., enterprise infrastructures). |
| Citrix (XenSource) | 0 | Utility | Not a Provider | Software Based | |
| CohesiveFT/ESOD | 1 | Utility | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | Sort of like of like a cloud factory. ESOD is Elastic Server on Demand that can be used to create EC2 running images along with other platform images (e.g., Zen, VMWare, Parallels). |
| Dell DCS | 2 | Server | Provider | Backbone | |
| EC2onRails | 1 | Utility | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | A project offering that claims to allow deployment of a Ruby on Rails app on EC2 in five minutes |
| Elastra | 1 | Server | Provider | Amazon EC2 | Primarily a MySQL/PostGreSQL play right now. |
| EMC Mozy | 1 | Storage | Provider | Backbone | Cloud Services Play |
| Enki | 1 | Server | Not a Provider | 3Tera | Heavier as a services player |
| Enomaly | 1 | Server | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | Heavier as a services player. Also creates other platform images (e.g., Xen,KVM,Qemu,OpenVZ,VMware, EC2 and Hyper-v) |
| Enomoly ElastcDrive | 1 | Storage | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | |
| EnterpriseDB | 1 | Database | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | Have a cloud offering |
| Flexiscale | 2 | Server | Provider | Backbone | UK Based cloud provider |
| Fortress ITX | 1 | Server | Not a Provider | 3Tera | |
| Google App Engine | 2 | Server | Provider | Backbone | Closed framework cloud. Is based on Python, Django and others. The primary point is that it does not support frameworks based on PHP or Rails. |
| Google Apps | 1 | Application | Provider | Backbone | Desktop play |
| Heroku | 1 | Utility | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | Ruby on Rails cloud |
| HP AiaaS | 2 | Server | Provider | Backbone | |
| IBM Blue Cloud | 0 | Server | Provider | Backbone | Provisioning play |
| iCloud | 1 | Application | Provider | Backbone | Desktop Cloud |
| Intridea/Scalr | 1 | Utility | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | Scalr is an open source project designed to offer true elasticity and recovery for EC2. |
| Joyent | 2 | Server | Provider | Backbone | Solaris based cloud |
| JungleDisk | 1 | Storage | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | Low cost utility for S3 |
| Layered Technology | 1 | Server | Provider | 3Tera | A 3Tera mega partner |
| LongJump | 1 | Database | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | |
| Microsoft SSDS | 1 | Database | Provider | Backbone | Competes w/Amazon SimpleDB |
| MorphExchange | 1 | Utility | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | Ruby on Rails cloud |
| Mosso | 2 | Server | Provider | Rackspace | Owned by by Rackspce |
| Nirvanix | 1 | Storage | Provider | Backbone | Interesting hybrid of Cloud and CDN |
| Rackspace | 0 | Server | Provider | Amazon EC2 | |
| Rightscale | 1 | Server | Provider | Amazon EC2 | |
| Rpath/Rbuilder | 1 | Utility | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 | Similar to ESOD and Enomoly. Creates stack images. |
| Salesforce.com | 0 | Application | Provider | SaaS | |
| Sun Caroline | 2 | Server | Provider | Backbone | |
| Sun MySQL | 1 | Database | Provider | Backbone | Not sure of plans |
| Terremark | 0 | Server | Provider | Backbone | |
| VMWare | 0 | Utility | Not a Provider | Software Based | |
| Weoceo | 1 | Utility | Not a Provider | Amazon EC2 |
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| Level | Description |
| 0 | Cloud Look-Alike |
| 1 | Cloud Guests |
| 2 | Cloud Hosts |
| 3 | Cloud Disruptor |
Notes:
- All vendor solutions based on Amazon’s AWS are classified as Beta because EC2, S3, and SimpleDB are all in Beta.
- RightScale has the potential to be a Level 3 provider due to their architecture
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