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Ask YC: Review my startup, exocloud.com

3 points by kylef14 18y ago

Hi, A few friends and I have been hard at work creating a set of products that help companies take advantage of cloud computing. The first of these products is a SaaS Cloud Management Console. This console allows you to quickly provision, manage, and monitor your virtual cloud resources across both Amazon EC2 and GoGrid. We would love it if you could check it out and give us some feedback. Our plans are to offer the Management Console as a free service while in BETA and then move it to a Freemium model sometime in the future. To use the ExoCloud Management Console you will need to already have an existing account with Amazon EC2 or GoGrid. After you signup for ExoCloud, you will be prompted for your cloud provider's credentials. Once you enter those we will go off and sync all of your information down into our system, including any currently running instances that you may have. If you would like to contact me directly you can do so at kylef@exocloud.com We would love any feedback you may have. Thanks

spoiledtechie 18y ago
What about Microsoft Cloud? You guys working on that?
- kylef14 18y ago
  Not currently. We are mainly focusing on more Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings where Microsoft's offering is more of a platform that you can develop for. However we are planning to support Rackspace's Cloud Servers once they become available.
siong1987 18y ago
The screenshots are too small to see anything. Maybe a video tour of all the features is better.
- clayf 18y ago
  Hi, I'm one of the founders. Great input. We'll work on that. Thanks.
wmf 18y ago
Long term (i.e. a year from now) these features will be provided for free by all cloud providers. Also, this is the same thing that everyone else is working on. Aren't we up to 10 cloud management consoles now? You're going to have to do better than this.
- kylef14 18y ago
  There are a number of other cloud management consoles currently popping up including Amazon's own free management console. However, I am only aware of one other management console that currently supports multiple cloud providers (RightScale). We realize though that management consoles are somewhat of a commodity and therefore there will be a number of options for users to choose from. Our mission is to try and bridge the enterprise data center and the cloud. The first step in this process is our SaaS Management Console.

3 points by kylef14 18y ago

spoiledtechie 18y ago

What about Microsoft Cloud? You guys working on that?

kylef14 18y ago
Not currently. We are mainly focusing on more Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings where Microsoft's offering is more of a platform that you can develop for. However we are planning to support Rackspace's Cloud Servers once they become available.

siong1987 18y ago

The screenshots are too small to see anything. Maybe a video tour of all the features is better.

clayf 18y ago
Hi, I'm one of the founders. Great input. We'll work on that. Thanks.

wmf 18y ago

Long term (i.e. a year from now) these features will be provided for free by all cloud providers. Also, this is the same thing that everyone else is working on. Aren't we up to 10 cloud management consoles now? You're going to have to do better than this.

kylef14 18y ago
There are a number of other cloud management consoles currently popping up including Amazon's own free management console. However, I am only aware of one other management console that currently supports multiple cloud providers (RightScale). We realize though that management consoles are somewhat of a commodity and therefore there will be a number of options for users to choose from. Our mission is to try and bridge the enterprise data center and the cloud. The first step in this process is our SaaS Management Console.