Ask YC: Review my startup, exocloud.com

#1

Post by kylef14 » Tue, Jan 13, 2009, 4:31 PM UTC

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

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#2

Post by spoiledtechie » Tue, Jan 13, 2009, 4:41 PM UTC

What about Microsoft Cloud? You guys working on that?

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#3

Post by kylef14 » Tue, Jan 13, 2009, 5:07 PM UTC

spoiledtechie wrote: post #2

What about Microsoft Cloud? You guys working on that?

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.

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#4

Post by siong1987 » Tue, Jan 13, 2009, 5:53 PM UTC

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

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#5

Post by clayf » Tue, Jan 13, 2009, 6:49 PM UTC

siong1987 wrote: post #4

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

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

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#6

Post by wmf » Tue, Jan 13, 2009, 7:31 PM UTC

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.

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Post by kylef14 » Tue, Jan 13, 2009, 8:28 PM UTC

wmf wrote: post #6

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.

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.