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 CohesiveFT (CFT) manufactures custom application stacks for virtualized infrastructure; stacks that are loosely coupled, vertically aware, and comprised of multi-sourced, best-of-breed components. CohesiveFT integrates open source & 3rd party software components into complete horizontal solution stacks, optimized for specific business tasks, and delivered in dependable easy to manage, virtualization formats. One of the hallmarks of the "web 2.0" business model is that no organization stands alone. Success, and oftentimes survival, depends upon collaborative effort between a set of business partners. If you would like to discuss partnering opportunities with us please be prepared to reveal sufficient details on your product plans and customers to allow us to find the right fit. We, of course, will reveal sufficient details to you so you can "find the fit" as well. Interested in partnering? Email us. Cloud Partners
| Amazon is an e-commerce and web services company based in Seattle, Washington. It was one of the first major companies to sell goods over the Internet and was one of the iconic stocks of the late 1990s dot-com bubble. More recently it has made a foray into web services starting with the Simple Storage Service (S3) and following with the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). EC2 is a a virtual site farm, allowing users to use the Amazon infrastructure with its high reliability to run diverse applications ranging from running simulations to web hosting. It allows scalable deployment of applications. Current users are able to create, launch and terminate server instances on-demand. Amazon is the leader in cloud computing. | | | | ElasticHosts is the second European cloud infrastructure provider and the world's first public cloud based upon KVM, the native Linux virtualization platform. The company provides flexible server capacity in the UK for scalable web hosting and on-demand burst computing such as batch processing, dev/test, disaster recovery and cloud bursting. ElasticHosts offers competitive pricing for both subscription and burst use, fast direct links to the UK/EU internet, data storage within EU jurisdiction and outstanding performance for any PC operating system with fully flexible sizing.
| | |  | Eucalyptus Systems develops enterprise-grade technology solutions built on the open source Eucalyptus software for private and hybrid cloud computing. Originally developed as part of an academic research project, Eucalyptus technology is quickly becoming the standard for on-premise cloud computing, delivering the cost efficiencies and scalability of cloud architecture with the security and control of deploying on an organization’s own IT infrastructure. Eucalyptus adds capabilities such as end-user customization, self-service provisioning, and legacy application support to data center virtualization features, making IT customer service easier, more fully featured, and less expensive.
| | | | FlexiScale is the Utility Computing platform launched by XCalibre Communications in the summer of 2007. Users are able to create, start, and stop servers as they require allowing rapid deployment where needed. Both Windows and Linux are supported on the FlexiScale platform. FlexiScale uses Virtual Iron's virtualization manager which is based on the open source Xen Hypervisor. Backend storage comes from a highly awesome super duper SAN/NAS. | | |  | GigaSpaces Technologies is a leading provider of a new generation of application platforms for Java and .Net environments that offer an alternative to traditional application-servers. The company's eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) allows businesses and developers to predictably scale systems under any peak demand, guarantee performance under any data processing load, and seamlessly leverage the economies-of-scale offered by virtual computing environments such as clouds and grids. XAP leverages open-source and standard development frameworks to speed new application development and simplify migration of existing systems from traditional middleware and application server technologies to new virtual computing architectures. GigaSpaces customers include six of the world's top 10 investment banks, world-leading exchanges, market data providers, hedge funds, retail banks, leading international and US telecommunications and mobile carriers, global Web-commerce companies, five of the world's top online gaming companies, and leading Internet media organizations. | | | | GoGrid a leading Cloud Computing, hosted, Internet provider enables system administrators, developers, IT professionals and SaaS (Software as a Service) vendors to create, deploy, and control load balanced cloud servers and complex hosted virtual server networks with full root access and administrative server control. GoGrid server instances maintain the industry standard specifications with no requirement to learn and adapt to propriety standards. Bringing up servers takes minutes via a unique web control panel or GoGrid’s award winning API. Free f5 hardware load balancing and other features are included to give users the control of a familiar datacenter environment with the flexibility and immediate scalability of the cloud, a "cloudcenter." GoGrid won the coveted 2008 LinuxWorld Expo’s Best of Show award. | | |  | Rackspace is the world's leader and specialist in hosting. Rackspace delivers computing-as-a-service, integrating the industry's best technologies into a flexible service offering, making computing more reliable andaffordable. A trusted partner to companies of all sizes, Rackspace enables IT departments to be more effective. Rackspace is distinguished by its award-winning Fanatical Support(R), furthering the company's mission to be one of the world's greatest service companies. Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine's 100 Best companies to work for, ranking number 32 on the 2008 list. Rackspace's portfolio of hosted IT services includes managed hosting ( www.rackspace.com), email hosting ( www.mailtrust.com), cloud hosting ( www.mosso.com), and VPS hosting (slicehost.com). | | | | | Skytap is the leading provider of cloud-based virtualization solutions available as on-demand services over the Web. Virtualization is poised to become the defining technology of the 21st century and Skytap's goal is to make serving up virtual machines over the internet as ubiquitous as delivering html to a browser. Depending on how you look at us, we're about maximizing efficiencies, minimizing costs, eliminating unnecessary hardware, outsourcing, eco-efficient computing, and doing more with less. |
Virtualization Partners
| Citrix Systems acquired XenSource in October 2007. XenSource, Inc. was founded by the inventors of the open source virtualization engine known as the Xen™ hypervisor, XenSource was the leading provider of enterprise virtualization solutions based on Xen™ . Companies worldwide deploy and trust Citrix Xen products to increase resiliency and reliability of their business operations, improve the speed and agility of their IT investments, improve security and realize the TCO savings that result from server consolidation, increased utilization, and reduced complexity in the datacenter. | | | | | | Parallels, Inc., a SWsoft company, is an emerging leader in desktop and server virtualization software, with over 500,000 customers. Parallels specializes in delivering easy-to-use and affordable virtualization solutions for consumers and IT administrators. The company has received numerous awards from press and analysts, including MacWorld’s “Best in Show” in 2006 and 2007 and was ranked #6 in PC World’s “Top 100 Products in 2007”. Parallels is privately held and based in the Seattle, Washington area. | | | | VMware, an EMC company, is the world’s leading provider of virtualization solutions and services. Through a pioneering virtualization approach, VMware solutions separate the operating system and application software from the underlying hardware, delivering significant improvements in efficiency, availability, flexibility and manageability. With a customer base of 20,000+ organizations of all sizes, including 100% of the Fortune 100, VMware delivers technology designed to substantially lower IT costs, provide more flexibility in choosing operating systems, and offer a more automated and resilient systems infrastructure capable of responding to variable business demands.
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Technology Partners
In order to provide customers with multi-sourced, best of breed-based application stacks, CFT depends on a significant number of technology partners. These partners provide elements of our product solution including (but not limited to) lightweight Java containers, enterprise service bus technology, rules engines, complex event stream processing, page serving, servlet serving, high performance message bus, and management/monitoring tools. These technology providers are both open source software providers and traditional commercial software providers. In either case, CFT makes our partners part of our success through both inbound and outbound royalty and OEM agreements. When a customer buys custom application stacks from us – our partners get paid on an instance-based royalty. Contact CFT if your OSS or commercial technology can further the customer value of CFT's "Elastic Servers".  | Canonical Ltd , the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is a global organization headquartered in Europe committed to the development, distribution, and support of open source software products and communities. World class commercial support for Ubuntu is available through Canonical's Global Support Services team and partners. Since its launch in October 2004 Ubuntu has become one of the most highly regarded Linux distributions, with millions of users around the world. Ubuntu will always be free to download, free to use and free to distribute to others. With these goals in mind, Ubuntu aims to be the most widely used Linux system, and is the centre of a global open source software ecosystem. | | | | | | MuleSource Inc. sponsors and supports the open source Mule ESB project. Mule is a leading open source ESB and integration platform, with hundreds of mission-critical production installations worldwide. Designed to support high-performance multi-protocol transactions, Mule can be used for system to system messaging, as transactional middleware, or as part of an application server. The extensible nature of the core Mule server, along with the open source code base, allows developers to maintain control of their infrastructure. | | | 
| RightScale is the leader in cloud computing management. Founded in 2006, the company offers a fully automated management platform that delivers the scalable, cost-effective, on-demand power of cloud computing, while providing complete IT control and transparency. The web-based RightScale Cloud Management Platform is available in a range of editions, from the free Developer Edition to Professional Editions. To date, thousands of deployments and over 400,000 servers have been launched on RightScale.
| | |  | SpringSource, formerly Interface 21, is an international company of consultants who build, use, and train for the Spring Framework, the most popular application framework in the world. The Spring Framework provides solutions to many technical challenges faced by Java developers creating applications based on the Java platform. | | | | | WSO2 was founded in August 2005 by leaders in web services standards and open source software. As a professional open source company, WSO2 delivers integrated middleware stacks based on components developed at Apache and provides commercial support and professional services around the Tungsten and Apache projects (i.e. Axis2, Sandesha, Rampart, Neethi, Axiom, and Synapse). | | | 
| Zeus Technology was founded in 1995 and develops application traffic management software. Zeus software enables our customers to create, manage and deliver exceptional online services in Physical, Virtual and Cloud environments. Implementing a Zeus solution allows organizations to visualize and manipulate the flow of traffic to web-enabled applications, ensuring a consistently robust web infrastructure and providing the competitive advantage online businesses need.
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Solution Partners
In order to attain customer success it is often the case that our plug-and-run application stacks are part of a larger, more consultative engagement by a solution partner. As customers turn to multi-sourced, loosely-coupled, vertically-aware stacks for their computing platform, new opportunities emerge for solution partners to deliver vertical-specific use-cases to meet customer demands. CFT offers aggressive VAR programs for solution partners building Elastic Servers and e-fulfillment through Elastic Server On-Demand into their custom customer solutions. | I.D. Rank Security , headquartered in Largo, Florida, was founded in December of 2005 to address the world’s fast growing need for effective data security products that offer detection, prevention, tracking, and management of personal and corporate information. The company offers seven patent pending solutions that protect government, corporate, and individual customers from rogue information technology threats by addressing two critical exposures – data leak prevention and secure and private communications. | |
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