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Heroku

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 05:43:48 GMT

Heroku provides application development framworks (Ruby and Node.js as of recently) as a service.

Heroku was acquired by Salesforce.com for about $212 Million

VMForce from VMWare and Salesforce.com

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:58:05 GMT

VMForce enables the development and deployment of enterprise Java applications. It was launched as a partnership between VMWare and Salesforce.com.

VMWare has subsequently launched Clound Foundry.

OpenShift by Redhat

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 05:42:28 GMT

Openshift (previously Makara) offers an industrial strengh on-demand platform to multiple frameworks to develop and deploy cloud applications.

Force.com (from Salesforce.com)

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 03:10:17 GMT

Force.com is Salesforce.com 's suite of services which enable the rapid development and deployment of enterprise applications.

This includes VMforce (a joint initiative with VMware), and database.com , which is Salesforce's cloud database platform

Dotcloud and Duostack

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 05:54:00 GMT

Dotcloud joined forces with Duostack to provide innovative PaaS (Platforms as a Service) infrastructure together.

GigaOM article

Cloud Foundry from VMware

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:47:48 GMT

Platform as a Service (PaaS) from VMware enabling users to build and run their Spring, Ruby or Node.js applications.

A unique feature of Cloud Foundry is the ability to download and run the platform yourself - and the whole thing is open source. This downloaded "Micro Cloud" does everything that the online service does, including self-monitoring and automatically provisioning new instances.

This create a viable secure alternative for large enterprises, enabling them to easily create a modern development environment without putting company apps on external evironments such as Heroku or Engine Yard. However, you can easily move from a private cloud to the Cloud Foundry open cloud services when you do feel like it.

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Google App Engine

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:43:30 GMT

Google Apps allows companies to code and deploy apps on the same systems as Google's applications.

Windows Azure

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 02:50:23 GMT

Windows Azure and SQL Azure enable you to build, host and scale applications in Microsoft datacenters. They require no up-front expenses, no long term commitment, and enable you to pay only for the resources you use.

Engine Yard

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:48:53 GMT

Engine Yard is a leading cloud platform for Ruby on Rails

PHPfog

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:47:39 GMT

Development and deployment environment with a focus on PHP

GigoOM article

Corent Technology

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 04:21:55 GMT

Transform existing Java applications into multi-tenant, software-as-a-service applications and deploy them to the clould.

apprenda

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 05:33:12 GMT

Enables organizations to deploy a private PaaS. Empowers enterprise IT organizations with a private cloud application platform for building, deploying, and running cloud applications using the Microsoft stack.