Ninefold was a cloud computing company which provided infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Ninefold was headquartered in Sydney, Australia and was backed by Macquarie Telecom (), an ASX-listed Australian B2B telecommunications company.
History and growth
Launch
Ninefold was founded by Macquarie Telecom in 2011 to meet a growing demand for cloud computing in Australia. The company provided virtual servers from 2011 until it stopped trading a few years later.
Services
Ninefold offered self-managed virtual servers.
Virtual Servers
Ninefold's customers were able to 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
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