7 Emerging Cloud Computing Vendors Providing Performance & Optimization Services

Gartner predicts that by 2012, 20% of businesses will own no IT assets because of cloud computing. Those that retain IT assets will have fewer and fewer in the course of time.

The following cloud computing vendors intend to help the enterprise make the most out of existing and future resources by maximizing cloud performance and optimizing infrastructure. They tout solutions to help clients cut costs without sacrificing performance in the process.

What they do

What they do: The Aryaka Platform takes a cloud-based approach to application acceleration and WAN optimization. This approach prioritizes real-time applications, just as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), Video and thin-client traffic. The Aryaka Platform works to increase efficiency and performance of the WAN by leveraging proprietary technologies for compressing payloads, managing redundancies, reducing latency, as then as speeding file and data-transfer rates.

What problem do they solve? Dynamically provisioning heterogeneous and legacy environments - networks containing a variety of vendors and a mix of physical and virtual resources - is a complicated, time-intensive and often error-prone process. Even with the best of IT teams, managing dynamic environments can become an all-consuming task, leaving little time and resources for other critical IT functions.

GaleForce automatically provisions both physical and virtual resources across computing, networking and storage components. Using GaleForce, organizations can locate, schedule, connect, provision and access servers, virtual machines, networking, storage and software repositories through one comprehensive platform.

Up-and-comer

Why they're an up-and-comer: As IT assets sprawl out into the cloud, managing and provisioning those resources becomes a bigger and bigger problem. The fact that GaleForce helps companies protect existing infrastructure investments - during helping them integrate those with cloud environments - places them on solid footing as cloud computing matures.

Gale is backed by an undisclosed amount of funding from Crescendo Ventures. Clients include Cisco, NetApp, HP, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Hitachi and Juniper Networks.

What problem do they solve?

What problem do they solve? With more and more businesses moving applications to the cloud, it is essential to find ways to ensure high performance level for end users. However when performance problems do happen in the cloud - and they will - organizations need a tool to help them pinpoint the source of the problem.

For larger sites, SOASTA can handle terabytes of data in real-time, nevertheless can as well transform that data into actionable information and precise analysis and insight that helps businesses make decisions about adjusting resources to meet demand.

Meanwhile, enterprises looking to use public clouds need to connect to those resources reliably with predictable performance.Along these lines, many enterprises are investing heavily in private MPLS connections and leased lines. Private networks are expensive, although, often prohibitively so. According to Talari, MPLS bandwidth costs are 100x higher than public internet bandwidth costs.

What they do

What they do: Talari Networks' WAN Virtualization solution brings the concept of virtualization to bandwidth. Talari's WAN Virtualization solution enables network managers to use multiple WAN connections - existing private WANs just as MPLS, as so then as any kind of Internet WAN links, be they DSL, cable, fiber, Metro Ethernet, etc. - to augment or replace individual private WAN connections.Talari uses end-end algorithms to do dynamic, real-time, traffic engineering, reacting sub-second to not just link failures nevertheless also congestion-related network problems, enabling businesses to build a WAN in other words simultaneously less expensive, much higher bandwidth, much lower cost and with lower ongoing operational costs than today's proprietary, single vendor WANs.

The result is business-class reliability and predictable performance for enterprises, drastically reducing WAN costs, and thereby removing the WAN cost obstacles to deploying a cloud infrastructure.

Up-and-comer

Why they're an up-and-comer: There is never enough bandwidth. As before long as connections speed up, new applications use up that bandwidth. In the meantime, as in the near future as service providers add to their networks, new traffic shows up nearly instantaneously.Any solution that attempts to improve bandwidth and network reliability stands a chance pursuant to this agreement today's conditions. Talari Networks has received two series of funding totaling $16.2 million from Menlo Ventures, Silver Creek Ventures and private investors. Clients include Lextron, Magnum Semiconductor and the Petroleum Pipeline Company.

What they do: Wyse focuses on helping business replace PCs with virtual desktops that rival the performance and user experience of PCs, however with greater IT control, much easier administration and lower TCO. Wyse designs devices that can leverage legacy PCs or zero, mobile, thin customers and cloud customers.

Wyse has been in business for 30 years, and has a reputation as a hardware company. Lately, even though, the company has been investing heavily in developing cloud optimization software. Though the company however develops hardware, about 90% of their technology and development efforts are in software development and engineering.Wyse's cloud customers are thin customers that rely on the cloud for computing and storage. The difference between them and traditional thin customers is that cloud clients come with optimized software, enabling them to be hosted in house, in private clouds or even in public clouds. They support a full range of applications, including rich media apps, and for end users offer a familiar user experience.With its Pocket Cloud solution, which allows users to securely access hosted desktops from smartphones and tablets, Wyse is as well slowly nevertheless surely setting its sights on "mobile cloud" opportunities.

Gale Technologies provides advanced software solutions to automate,orchestrate, and optimize resources - transforming the process ofInfrastructure-as-a-Service delivery. As a pioneer of innovativesolutions for provisioning and workflow automation across networking,server, storage, and virtualization technologies, Gale enables theautomated and self-service provisioning of dynamic lab, data center, andcloud environments. Visit Gale Technologies for more information.