May 20, 2008 8:34 AM PDT

Virtual stack vendor CohesiveFT part of Top Ten Tech Startups

Posted by Dave Rosenberg

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CohesiveFT is one of the more interesting vendors that you probably haven't heard much about yet. Their "Elastic Servers" are custom application stacks as virtual images.

Basically, they have created a "software chassis" for VM images to rolled on-demand. The company maintains libraries of components and customers may add their own proprietary components to the library (for their use only) and construct the image of a virtual application stack. The resulting images are built, encapsulated, given a unique identity and injected with management and integration services.

For example you can quickly create a VM image of Mule with a variety of accessories and run it locally or on EC2.

Now that they have been named one of InfoWorld's top 10 tech startups, I suspect you'll start seeing more of CFT.

Dave Rosenberg is currently working on a new stealth start-up based in San Francisco. He is Co-founder of MuleSource, an open source integration and infrastructure software company and is a recognized thought-leader in open source software and service-oriented architecture. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

Topics:: Open source,; Cloud Computing,; SaaS

Tags:: CohesiveFT,; Mule,; InfoWorld

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Dave Rosenberg is currently working on a new stealth start-up based in San Francisco. On the Negative Approach Blog, Dave discusses the dynamics of growing a startup company and how the software market is evolving against monolithic software corporations whose corporate hegemony stifle innovation and annoy developers worldwide. He has experience at both large corporations and several startups; technology has long been his best friend and mortal enemy. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

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