Visual Map of OnDemand Marketplace
Written by Ameed Taylor
Peter Laird; with assistance from Kent Dickson and Steve Bobrowski, has created an excellent visual mapping of the current state of the OnDemand Marketplace as of early 2008.
Peter has the marketplace broken out into:
Platform as a Service ( Link to Dion Hinchliffe whitepaper - 2.4 mb pdf )
Within these 4 Markets, Peter has numerous submarkets with the majority of companies as of today providing solutions in the Cloud Computing and Software as a Service Markets.
I would expand a bit on Peter’s definition of the Software as a Service market to also include Billing and Contract Management which he has broken out into Core Cloud Services. On Demand Billing and Contract Management can be utilized not just for Software as a Service and Integration as a Service solutions but could also be used behind the firewall to meter in house computing usage.
I will create followup articles over the next few months that go into detail on the technology and players in the Integration as a Service, (Market where my firm Applation is developing solutions) Database, Storage, Security, and Cloud Computing Markets.














The list of companies is rather incomplete. There are only a few Cloud Computing and Software as a Service Companies on the map.
Nick
reply on May 23rd, 2008 :
George,
The Cloud Portal has a up to date list of Cloud Providers
http://cloudcomputing.qrimp.com/portal.aspx
and
http://tinyurl.com/539ccf
Magnús Sveinsson
reply on May 23rd, 2008 :
Thanks for the links
George,
Peter Laird mentions in his article ( http://tinyurl.com/45ejjj ) that the list of companies is not exhaustive.
You can go to http://www.saas-showplace.com to get a more complete list of Saas companies at least.