Union Square Ventures

10gen is an open source cloud computing platform-as-a-service technology. Our goal is to make it easy to deploy web infrastructure to the cloud with a large reduction in effort and cost around systems administration, scalability, and configuration. The system consists of a new cloud-aware component stack for building web applications.

10gen provides:

* Automatic, on-demand application scaling
* A scalable grid-aware object database
* Automatic disaster recovery and data replication
* Support for multiple programming languages. Python, Ruby, and server-side Javascript are the first supported languages.
* Site management and performance evaluation tools
* Option to download software and ‘run your own cloud’
* 24/7 support, SLAs
* Lock-in free software development
* Source code availability