| Company | Continuuity |
| Address | 150 Grant Avenue, Suite C, Palo Alto – USA |
| Founders | Todd Papaioannou, Jonathan Gray, Nitin Motgi |
| Founded | Oktober 2011 |
| Funding | $ 12.5 million |
| Employees | 8 |
| Website | www.continuuity.com |
| Rating | 6 bits |
Continuuity claims to democratize big data application development. They have built AppFabric, a Platform as a Service tool that hosts in the cloud and that allows developers to build their own big data tools. It is a development environment on top of a companys Hadoop infrastructure. Developers do not have to worry about the back-end or the integration, as AppFabric takes care of this.
There is an SDK available that allows users to build apps with a drag-and-drop user interface. Before deploying them, they can run, test and debug the apps locally. When an app is ready it can be deployed easily and their AppFabric UI provides real-time information about the app, which can be useful if a developer needs to scale quickly.
Continuuity is founded by big data experts from Yahoo and Facebook, so they know their way around big data. Co-founder and CEO Todd Papaioannou says Continuuity wants to make it easy for developers at fast-follower companies to build big data applications without having to learn Hadoops low-level APIs and the general complexity of the distributed framework. Very few people, he said, really want to be part of the home-brew computing club experience.
At the moment, Continuuity is only available in a private beta and developers need to sign-up if they are interested. It is expected that a private cloud version will be available in 2013, which will charge on a per-usage-basis.
Continuuity makes it a lot easier for developers to develop new applications for big data as engineers do not have to worry about nodes, clusters or data blocks anymore. Their PaaS service has received rather substantial funding from well-known venture capitalists in a short timeframe. Also they just opened their Beta to the public. However, they have not yet won any awards and the amount of customers is still small. Therefore, Continuuity receives a rating of 6 bits.
