Company:Ninefold
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| Type | Private company |
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| Industry | Internet Hosting Service |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Headquarters | Level 20, 2 Market St Sydney, NSW 2000 |
Key people | Peter James, Chairman |
| Website | http://ninefold.com |
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 (ASX: MAQ), an ASX-listed Australian B2B telecommunications company.[1]
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.[2] On 13 February 2015, Ninefold was listed as a product available to Federal Government agencies through Macquarie Telecom.[3]
Docker Support
On 10 June 2014, Ninefold commenced support of Docker with the announcement that Docker 1.0.0 [4] was available.[5]
Competitors
References
- ↑ "Macquarie launches Ninefold Cloud Start-up". Mitchel Lake. http://www.mitchellake.com/news/Sydney/IT_&_Telecomms/Macquarie-launches-Ninefold-Cloud-Start-up/206.
- ↑ Tomlinson, Mundi. "New Suppliers added to the DCaaS Multi Use List". http://www.finance.gov.au/blog/2013/06/26/new-suppliers-added-dcaas-multi-use-list/.
- ↑ Wu, Karen. "New Cloud Services Panel". http://www.financeminister.gov.au/media/2015/0213-new-cloud-services-panel.html. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
- ↑ "It's here: Docker 1.0". 23 September 2021. http://blog.docker.com/2014/06/its-here-docker-1-0/.
- ↑ "Docker comes preloaded". https://ninefold.com/news/docker-100/.
External links
- Ninefold website, https://ninefold.com/.
- Ninefold Open Source Repository on Github, https://github.com/ninefold.
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