Cloud computing is a mode of computing where computer and network resources like servers, storage, data protection, disaster recovery, and network bandwidth, etc. are offered and delivered as a service over the Internet or private networks. In the cloud computing model resources are virtualized, making use of them very flexible and dynamically scalable up or down to adjust to the needs of an organization.

The optimal way to utilize resources in a cloud computing infrastructure environment is as a managed service. In most cases end-users of these service(s) are application and/or database information owners in an organization. These 'customers' can be greatly assisted by buying compute resources 'as-needed' from an automated cloud.

InContinuum Vision - Automate and Control the Cloud

Our vision for the cloud computing market is centered on simplifying the design and delivery of cloud-based managed services, thus reducing the Total Cost of Ownership & Operations. InContinuum Software strives to maximize the flexibility of our customers' operational choices, providing the bridge between their back-office businesses processes and technology choices.

Target Market 

Current market research supports that the market segment for cloud-based IT services is growing at a rate higher than the industry general growth projections for the foreseeable future. This segment is growing with a Combined Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 27% per year through at least 2012. This illustrates the strength of the market opportunity. InContinuum is well-positioned to take advantage of this market movement with CloudController.

History

InContinuum Software was founded in 2002 by veterans in the large-scale systems integration and telecom services industries in the USA, Germany and the Netherlands. Our engineering and development teams have decades of experience in these segments. Our original software concept for managing and controlling IT infrastructure and their associated SLAs for service providers demanded a combination of telecom services and IT systems technologies that were not commercially feasible at that time.

In 2005 we saw that the broad emergence of IT infrastructure virtualization technologies, coupled with the convergence of affordable broadband telecom services and more affordable server/storage technologies, were coming together in all market segments in such a way to make our concept for automation and control of managed services very feasible.

We took the concept back to the drawing board and prepared the initial programming specifications for CloudController so that both Public and Private Cloud environments could benefit from our vision. We began the programming effort in 2007, focused on both corporate enterprises and service providers, which resulted in the general available version at the end of the summer 2008.

Moving forward we will continue to innovate, leading the market with open, flexible, cost-efficient solutions that answer the needs of our customers in the cloud computing marketplace.