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Background
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
Jamcracker was founded in 1999 by K.B.

Chandrasekhar, who previously founded Exodus Communications, which was the most successful

IPO of 1998. Exodus was purchased by Cable and Wireless in 2001.

Funding
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.

Partnerships
The company has strategic partnership with IBM and Nokia Siemens Networks. Over 60

cloud providers as part of the Jamcracker ecosystem

Awards
Gartner Research named Jamcracker to its 2011 Cool

Vendors in Cloud Services Brokerage. The Jamcracker Platform won the 2007

Telephony Innovation Award and Web Host Magazine

gave Jamcracker Service Delivery Network (SDN) to its Editors’ Choice

Award in 2006.

Products
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
Parallels, Inc.