Intel invests in cloud management company

From InfoWorld: A company that makes a cloud management system is getting a $14 million investment from Intel and others, which it will use to hire new employees.

Adaptive Computing intends to use this money to add "dozens" of people to its staff, which now number around 75 employees, said Michael Jackson, COO and president of the Provo, Utah-based firm.

The nine-year-old, privately held company began as Cluster Resources (before changing its name last year to Adaptive Computing), focusing on high-performance computing systems, but has since adapted its Moab workload technologies to manage cloud environments.

"This is a space everybody wants to be in right now," said Glenn O'Donnell, an analyst at Forrester Research. He said a variety of firms "are all trying to bring solutions to the market that can help enterprises build their own cloud."

The promise is to enable enterprises to build their own infrastructure as a service cloud internally - something akin to an internal Amazon "EC2 type service," O'Donnell said.

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