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Ninefold

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Key people
  
Peter James, Chairman

Headquarters
  
Sydney, Australia

Type of business
  
Privately held company

Founded
  
2011

Industry
  
Internet Hosting Service

Profiles

Ninefold was a cloud computing company which provides infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Ninefold is headquartered in Sydney, Australia and is backed by Macquarie Telecom (ASX: MAQ), an ASX-listed Australian B2B telecommunications company.

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Launch

Ninefold was founded by Macquarie Telecom in 2011 to meet a growing demand for cloud computing in Australia. The company provides virtual servers since 2011.

Services

Ninefold offers self-managed virtual servers.

Virtual Servers

Ninefold’s customers can provision virtual servers via an online portal.

Australian Federal Government Hosting

On 26 June 2013, Ninefold became a member of the Data Centre as a Service (DCaaS) Multi-User List, which is published by the Australian Government Department of Finance. On 13 February 2015, Ninefold was listed as a product available to Federal Government agencies through Macquarie Telecom.

Docker Support

On 10 June 2014, Ninefold commenced support of Docker with the announcement that Docker 1.0.0 was available.

Competitors

  • AppScale
  • Heroku
  • Engine Yard
  • OpenShift
  • Amazon Web Services
  • DigitalOcean
  • References

    Ninefold Wikipedia