Chairman and CEO: Marc Andreessen
Web site: loudcloud.com
From the S-1:
We offer businesses a new class of Internet infrastructure services, which we deliver using our Opsware automation technology. These services, which we call Smart Cloud services, include those required to provision, deploy, maintain and scale Internet operations. This fully outsourced solution enables our customers to increase or reduce their Internet operations infrastructure capacity as business needs dictate. Our Smart Cloud services enable our customers to benefit from reliable, high-quality and scalable Internet operations without undertaking the difficulty and expense associated with building the required expertise in-house.
We provide our Smart Cloud services through the Loudcloud Infrastructure Network, which allows us to consistently provision operations infrastructure capacity for our customers across multiple locations and to maintain that infrastructure through a centralized network operations center. The Loudcloud Infrastructure Network consists of our hardware, software and networking equipment located in a number of interconnected third-party data centers and maintained by our Opsware technology. Among other things, the Loudcloud Infrastructure Network enables our customers to:
---maintain a duplicate operations infrastructure in a separate location to protect against loss of service in the event of a localized disruption;
---provide geographically dispersed end users with enhanced site performance by maintaining customers' operations in areas close to their end users;
---quickly expand their Internet presence as business opportunities arise in new geographies; and
---efficiently incorporate new functionality or technologies into their existing Internet operations as Internet technologies evolve.
Central to the operation of our Loudcloud Infrastructure Network is our Opsware automation technology. Our Opsware technology automates formerly manual tasks, such as system configuration, provisioning and scaling, and software updating and modification, thereby reducing the amount of manual intervention required. We believe that our Opsware technology will enable us to deploy and service customers more quickly and efficiently and with a higher quality of service than customers could otherwise do. |
