OnApp was a

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-based software company. Its software enabled service providers to build, operate and sell IaaS public cloud,

private cloud 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 ISO. Essential characteristics ...

and

content delivery network A content delivery network (CDN) or content distribution network is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. The goal is to provide high availability and performance ("speed") by distributing the service spat ...

services. OnApp also operated the OnApp Federation, a wholesale cloud infrastructure marketplace, which enabled service providers to buy and sell cloud infrastructure managed by OnApp software; and enables enterprises to adopt a hybrid cloud model by combining their on-premises cloud infrastructure with public cloud resources. OnApp was founded in 2010. On 16 August 2021, OnApp became a division of

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List of products

* OnApp Cloud enables service providers to manage and sell different types of cloud hosting service. It includes a range of tools for server orchestration and

virtual appliance A virtual appliance is a pre-configured virtual machine image, ready to run on a hypervisor; virtual appliances are a subset of the broader class of software appliances. Installation of a software appliance on a virtual machine and packaging that ...

management, and managing associated functions such as metering, monitoring,

failover Failover is switching to a redundant or standby computer server, system, hardware component or network upon the failure or abnormal termination of the previously active application, server, system, hardware component, or network in a computer ...

, backups, security, billing, user permissions and limits; plus

software-defined networking Software-defined networking (SDN) is an approach to network management that uses abstraction to enable dynamic and programmatically efficient network configuration to create grouping and segmentation while improving network performance and monit ...

and software-defined storage capabilities. OnApp Cloud is managed via a

graphical user interface A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows user (computing), users to human–computer interaction, interact with electronic devices through Graphics, graphical icon (computing), icons and visual indicators such ...

which is available for web browsers,

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and Android devices; or via its

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* Cloud.net provides OnApp cloud software and infrastructure as a service * OnApp CDN enables service providers to create their own content delivery network services * OnApp Edge Accelerator is a patented, automated content optimization and distribution tool for web applications running on a virtual server in OnApp clouds *OnApp for VMware Cloud Director enables OnApp to be used as a management, provisioning and billing portal for VMware Cloud Director *OnApp for VMware vCenter enables OnApp to be used as a management, provisioning and billing portal for VMware vCenter environments * OnApp Federation is a wholesale marketplace where service providers can buy and sell cloud infrastructure on demand

Partnerships

OnApp partnerships include: * VMware - OnApp is a VMware Technology Alliance Partner and a recommended VMware portal provider

Acquisitions

On 8 August 2011 OnApp announced the acquisition of Aflexi, a CDN management software company On 16 September 2014 OnApp announced the acquisition of SolusVM, a virtual server management software company. On 7 June 2018, SolusVM was acquired from OnApp by Plesk On 16 August 2021,

announced that it had acquired OnApp.

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External links

Official OnApp website
Cloud computing providers Cloud infrastructure