title: Ninefold
text: # Ninefold
  
  Ninefold was a cloud computing company which provided infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Ninefold was headquartered in Sydney, Australia and was backed by Macquarie Telecom (ASX: MAQ), an ASX-listed Australian B2B telecommunications company.
  
  ## History and growth
  
  ### Launch
  
  Ninefold was founded by Macquarie Telecom in 2011 to meet a growing demand for cloud computing in Australia. The company provided virtual servers from 2011 until it stopped trading a few years later.
  
  ## Services
  
  Ninefold offered self-managed virtual servers.
  
  ### Virtual Servers
  
  Ninefold’s customers were able to provision virtual servers via an online portal.
  
  ### Australian Federal Government Hosting
  
  On 26 June 2013, Ninefold became a member of the Data Centre as a Service (DCaaS) Multi-User List, which is published by the Australian Government Department of Finance. On 13 February 2015, Ninefold was listed as a product available to Federal Government agencies through Macquarie Telecom.
  
  ### Docker Support
  
  On 10 June 2014, Ninefold commenced support of Docker with the announcement that Docker 1.0.0 was available.
  
  ## Competitors
  
  * AppScale
  * Heroku
  * Engine Yard
  * OpenShift
  * Amazon Web Services
  * DigitalOcean
  