"Just because you can do it technically doesn't mean you have production customers who have done that with you to date," Smith says. "Technically, Intel can build an 81-core chip but it doesn't mean we have it commercially available in production."

Enomaly says ECP provides the following benefits:

-- Ability to combine many servers into a "single, seamless, sharable cloud."

-- Automatically scale during times of high demand by accessing both "local and remote clouds."

-- Partition public computing utilities such as Amazon EC2 into a quarantined private cloud.