"Due to strong demand from non ECP-based cloud providers and [infrastructure-as-a-service] platforms, we have decided to open up our marketplace to any and all platforms," Cohen said. Within the next week, Enomaly will publish instructions to let service providers that use other cloud platforms sell on its market.

Alternatively, they can connect to the market using free software that Enomaly will provide. Next week the company will start offering a free "feature-limited" version of Enomaly that will let cloud providers as well as private data centers sell capacity in SpotCloud. They will need to install the ECP SpotCloud Edition software "on a few spare servers" to participate, Enomaly said.

Using the ECP SpotCloud Edition is easier than joining the market by following Enomaly's integration instructions, Cohen said. "With the ECP SpotCloud edition you basically can install the IaaS platform on a few servers and be up in running in minutes. Otherwise they need to implement against our API, which is much more complicated and time consuming," he said.

The IDG News Service