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By Abhishek Ghosh December 9, 2013 1:51 am Updated on December 9, 2013

6 Almost Unknown Highly Specialized Cloud Service Providers

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6 almost unknown highly specialized cloud service providers can be your alternative option to well known Amazon AWS cloud computing for your specialized need. Without any doubt, the best Heroku Cloud and Private Cloud service so far we have tested is with Rackspace Cloud due to multiple reasons. But, as far other option goes, OpenShift is important for Platform as a Service or PaaS, alternative to OpenShift can be Heroku Cloud. Please note – Heroku Cloud arrived long before Red Hat OpenShift, but Heroku Cloud, right now is the second option.

It is relevant to know the basic details of Cloud Computing, What is Cloud Computing?, Video Guide explaining PaaS (Platform as a Service) and it is of utmost important to understand the Cloud Computing Service Models and Deployment. There are over 900 articles only on Cloud Computing on this website and these 6 almost unknown highly specialized cloud service providers might help you but we highly recommend to search our website to understand whether their offering matches with your need.

 

6 Almost Unknown Highly Specialized Cloud Service Providers : Alternatives?

 

Alternative option has been used quite loosely. When you hear people talk about cloud computing and in particular of IaaS or Infrastructure-as-a-Service, users tend to think immediately about Amazon. But that does not mean that Amazon is the only company providing cloud solutions.

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More experienced users are well aware that one of the main competitors of Amazon such as Microsoft and Rackspace Cloud. But the list of providers of cloud computing does not stop some of these three or a little more reality should be known.

Going to Google Search, it is easy to find different companies that specialize in cloud computing services. Although their names do not sound familiar to most of the peoples, it can be said with certainty that they are highly reliable and qualified companies (which we have listed). Given the predominance of Rackspace and Amazon cloud, these small companies have chosen to specialize in few services.

 

6 Almost Unknown Highly Specialized Cloud Service Providers

 

6 Almost Unknown Highly Specialized Cloud Service Providers

Following are the 6 almost unknown highly specialized cloud service providers – probably many users do not know the name, but will be worth certainly worth a look and evaluate according to their needs.

CenturyLink (Previously Tier 3) : A small cloud computing business which is described by the analyst Lydia Leong of Gartner as the provider of the “right balance between management and control”, directed at an audience with IT and developer staffs. Tier 3/CenturyLink is, in fact, is capable of supporting the most popular development tools such as New Relic, pingdom, Logstash and Octopus.

ProfitBricks : It is a small company that has been successful, as confirmed by analyst Janakiram, not because they tried to imitate Amazon EC2, but because they have some unique points. With ProfitBricks instances you can rent the computing power – up to 62 CPU cores and 240GB of RAM.

Virtustream : Even this small provider has found the road to success in the politics of specialization. Virtustream is, in fact, is the ideal solution for all corporate accounts that need to run SAP enterprise applications.

DigitalOcean : It is a provider that can offer good solutions at affordable prices. In fact the prices offered are really cheap.

Internap : A provider by the small size that second Brooks, is able to generate interesting solutions that mainly concern the DCIM. The note Exelate company has decided to own this provider, which is gaining more and more success given the recent acquisition of iWeb.

GoGrid : A provider able to provide their customers a great Service-level-agreement. The quality of service is excellent, as confirmed by Dave Bartoletti of Forrester Research.

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About Abhishek Ghosh

Abhishek Ghosh is a Businessman, Surgeon, Author and Blogger. You can keep touch with him on Twitter - @AbhishekCTRL.

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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "6 Almost Unknown Highly Specialized Cloud Service Providers," in The Customize Windows, December 9, 2013, March 31, 2023, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2013/12/specialized-cloud-service-providers/.

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