Ninefold was a

cloud computing Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand," according to International Organization for ...

company which provided infrastructure as a service (

IaaS Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a cloud computing service model where a cloud services vendor provides computing resources such as storage, network, servers, and virtualization (which emulates computer hardware). This service frees users fro ...

). Ninefold was headquartered in Sydney,

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

and was backed by Macquarie Telecom (), an ASX-listed Australian B2B telecommunications company.

History and growth

Launch

Ninefold was founded by Macquarie Telecom in 2011 to meet a growing demand for cloud computing in Australia. The company provided virtual servers from 2011 until it stopped trading a few years later.

Services

Ninefold offered self-managed virtual servers.

Virtual Servers

Ninefold’s customers were able to provision virtual servers via an online portal.

Australian Federal Government Hosting

On 26 June 2013, Ninefold became a member of the Data Centre as a Service (DCaaS) Multi-User List, which is published by the Australian Government Department of Finance. On 13 February 2015, Ninefold was listed as a product available to Federal Government agencies through Macquarie Telecom.

Docker Support

On 10 June 2014, Ninefold commenced support of Docker with the announcement that Docker 1.0.0 was available.

Competitors

* AppScale *

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* Engine Yard *

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References

External links

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