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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Santa Clara California |
Key people | K. B. Chandrasekhar, CEO and Chairman |
| Products | Jamcracker Platform, Jamcracker Services Delivery Network (JSDN) |
| Website | www |
Background[edit]
Jamcracker is a cloud services enablement company that helps service providers, IT
providers, and enterprise IT organizations to become cloud services brokerages, allowing
them to unify cloud services delivery and life-cycle management for their customers,
employees, and through channel partners.
History[edit]
Jamcracker was founded in 1999 by K.B.
Chandrasekhar[1], who previously founded Exodus Communications, which was the most successful
IPO of 1998. Exodus[2] was purchased by Cable and Wireless in 2001.
Funding[edit]
The company has received funding from Bay Partners, a Silicon Valley-based early stage
venture capital firm and preferred financing via Soros Private Equity Partners affiliates,
which included investment banks Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Goldman Sachs, [[Credit
Suisse]] First Boston and Internet Capital Group, among
others[3].
Partnerships[edit]
The company has strategic partnership with IBM and Nokia Siemens Networks. Over 60
cloud providers as part of the Jamcracker ecosystem
Awards[edit]
Gartner Research named Jamcracker to its 2011 Cool
Vendors[4] in Cloud Services Brokerage. The Jamcracker Platform won the 2007
Telephony Innovation Award and Web Host Magazine
[5] gave Jamcracker Service Delivery Network (SDN) to its Editors’ Choice
Award in 2006.
Products[edit]
The Jamcracker Platform is a multi-tiered and multi-tenant cloud delivery and
management solution that is used by hundreds of service providers, cloud providers and
enterprise IT organizations to aggregate, deliver and manage internal and external cloud
services.
The Jamcracker Services Delivery Network is an outsourced software as a service
channel-enablement platform that provides unified application and user management for
various on-demand services.
Competitors[edit]
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