{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2016}} {{Infobox company | name = Ninefold Pty Ltd<br />(dba Ninefold) | logo = Ninefold logo white on black.png | type = Private company | founded = 2011 | hq_location = Level 20, 2 Market St<br /> Sydney, NSW 2000 | key_people = Peter James, Chairman | industry = Internet Hosting Service | website = [http://ninefold.com/ 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Macquarie launches Ninefold Cloud Start-up|url=http://www.mitchellake.com/news/Sydney/IT_&_Telecomms/Macquarie-launches-Ninefold-Cloud-Start-up/206|publisher=Mitchel Lake}}</ref>
== 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.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Tomlinson|first1=Mundi|title=New Suppliers added to the DCaaS Multi Use List|url=http://www.finance.gov.au/blog/2013/06/26/new-suppliers-added-dcaas-multi-use-list/|website=Department of Finance|ref=4}}</ref> On 13 February 2015, Ninefold was listed as a product available to Federal Government agencies through Macquarie Telecom.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Wu|first1=Karen|title=New Cloud Services Panel|url=http://www.financeminister.gov.au/media/2015/0213-new-cloud-services-panel.html|website=Minister for Finance|accessdate=13 February 2015}}</ref>
=== Docker Support ===
On 10 June 2014, Ninefold commenced support of Docker with the announcement that Docker 1.0.0 <ref>{{cite web|title=It's here: Docker 1.0|date=23 September 2021 |url=http://blog.docker.com/2014/06/its-here-docker-1-0/}}</ref> was available.<ref>{{cite web|title=Docker comes preloaded|url=https://ninefold.com/news/docker-100/}}</ref>
== Competitors ==
* AppScale * Heroku * Engine Yard * OpenShift * Amazon Web Services * DigitalOcean
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{Citation | url = https://ninefold.com/ | title = Ninefold website | type = official site}}. * {{Citation | url = https://github.com/ninefold | title = Ninefold Open Source Repository on Github}}.
Category:Cloud platforms Category:Cloud computing providers Category:Internet technology companies of Australia