6fusion
6fusion is an American utility computing company headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. The company offers utility-metered cloud computing platform that enables organizations and IT services providers to access to a federated network of IaaS providers for public cloud workloads and a hypervisor-agnostic cloud management platform for private and hybrid clouds. The unifying foundation of the 6fusion technology platform is the Workload Allocation Cube (WAC), a single unit of measure for computing consumption that incorporates CPU, computer memory, computer data storage, disk I/O, Local Area Network I/O, and Wide Area Network I/O into one measurement, similar to the kilowatt in electric utility consumption.
6fusion's products are used by end user organizations, both enterprises and public sector, as well as IT service providers.
History
The company has raised a total of $10M in two rounds of funding from Intersouth Partners and Grotech Ventures.
The company was named a 2011 CRN Magazine Emerging Vendor. 6fusion was also named a 2012 North Carolina Company to Watch
Products
6fusion's product portfolio is made up of the following:
Cloud Resource Meter for VMware which gives users the ability to meter virtual machine resource consumption in any VMware vSphere 4.1 or 5.0 environment providing insight into resource consumption directly from the VMware Console. 'Enterprise iNode' is 6fusion's cloud management platform for private and hybrid deployment, metering and management. 'iNode Network' provides users access to a federated network of IaaS providers to deploy workloads in their choice of public clouds.