Cloud Computing Management Startup Nubefy Gets Love From Singapore Government

Remember Nubefy? We briefly talked about the startup back in August. Here was what I wrote:

I met up with Christopher Bousigues and Eric Meyer, co-founders of Nubefy, a Singapore-based cloud computing management platform which aims to minimize the problems in the cloud server market.

Here’s the idea: Think of Nubefy as a simple WYSIWYG interface that allows you to give commands to automatically move from cloud provider A (e.g. Amazon EC2) to cloud provider B (e.g. Rackspace) if A goes down. In this way you can control all of your cloud hosts via a single interface. This removes the need to sign-in and out of every server to manage them, saving you time and energy.

Also, because of agents installed in each of the different hosts’s servers, Nubefy is also able to effectively compare their performance and speed on your page/application load time, directing data to the best-performing host. To do that, Nubefy needs to make migrating from one server to another seamless.

Nubefy told us a couple of days ago that it has just received a grant from the Singapore government via the Technology Enterprise Commercialization Scheme (TECS). The sum of money Nubefy received wasn’t disclosed. But I’m guessing it’s at least six digits in total funding.

Bousigues said that the money will be used mainly for product development and we can expect to see the product in Q2 of 2012. That’s six more months to wait!