Spanish startup Besol wants a slice of the cloud-broker pie

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.

Seville, Spain-based startup Besol is trying to take on companies like RightScale with a new cloud-management platform called Tapp. The company is currently honing its skills providing management interfaces for European telcos’ cloud offerings, and will start a push into North America in 2013.

It’s a crowded market for companies trying to make a living by adding a uniform management layer over multiple cloud-computing offerings, but Seville, Spain-based startup Besol thinks there’s room for one more. With its flagship product offering, called Tapp, the company — which is presenting at our Structure: Europe Launchpad competition next week — thinks it can compete globally with established players such as RightScale, enStratus and Scalr by making it easy for small and mid-sized enterprises to get started with the cloud…

Besol actually launched in 2009 as a consulting firm for supercomputer and other large-system deployments, but soon realized there was a good business in helping people manage their cloud resources. As the company began working on more and more cloud computing deployments, Founder and CTO Javier Pérez-Griffo said he noticed a distinct lack of management resources compared with what he was used to with supercomputing systems. In those deployments, a single sysadmin could configure and manage many computers using tools such as Chef, but there was nothing comparable for these nascent clouds…

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