1) Our goal is your business's success, not simply providing computing.   Because we are focused on your success as a partner, we offer personalized service, fully managed Cloud Computing with system administration, and additional services such as remote monitoring and backup to provide you a complete solution to your computing needs. 

2) ENKI includes hardware firewalls with IDS/IPS (intrustion detection/protection) and DDOS protection coupled with best-in-class low-latency bandwidth.

3) Our resource rates are similar to those of GoGrid, but your bandwidth costs are significantly lower at ENKI.

4) At this time, we manage the provisioning of your VPDC for you, instead of GoGrid's self-service approach.  This way we can guarantee your application will run when you deploy.

5) We both have SAS70 certified data centers.

6) We have similar overall reliability with auto-restart capability to achieve approximately 3-nines (99.9%) uptime.

7) ENKI can deploy your application into a wider geography: through our partnership with WBS Connect, we can deploy new clouds into data centers around the globe.

8) Because we use the standard AppLogic technology, you are not locked in to ENKI.  Should you decide to switch vendors, you can automatically migrate your running application to another AppLogic-based service provider.  Or, you can supplement your cloud computing with an AppLogic cloud inside your company which we can install and manage (subject to minimum purchase requirements.)

9) AppLogic has been around for more than 4 years, providing an advantage in stability and performance. 

	GoGrid	ENKI Computing Utility
Reliability	Applications are restarted automatically when hardware fails.  GoGrid has a "10,000%" reliability guarantee, however you must apply for the rebates and they may be denied.	AppLogic will restart a failed server's software on a new server typically within 5 minutes or faster.   ENKI offers a 10x money-back guarantee for unplanned outages exceeding AppLogic's 15-minute max restart time, which comes to approximately 99.9% application reliability (not just hardware reliability.)  This rebate is offered automatically because ENKI monitors all servers with a reliability history that you can access yourself. All data stored in ENKI's grid is RAIDed for redundancy: the chances of data loss due to hardware failure are negligible.
Security	If you want security, you will have to install a software firewall and maintain it yourself.  Since security is applied at the server, DDOS attacks can paralyze your servers.	Active Intrusion Detection/ Intrusion Prevention firewalls with antivirus available to protect against hacking, viruses and DOS attacks.  Multiple gigabit connections to the internet backbone mean DDOS attacks are absorbed by the firewalls, not your application.
Pricing	$0.19/GB-Hr with discounts for prepaid plans.	$0.19/GB-Hr, with discounts for committed minimum usage levels.  You don't have to pay in advance - ever!
Other Costs	$0.50/GB outbound traffic	$0.17/GB max inbound/outbound traffic ($0.21 with IDS/IPS).  No surprise overage charges. IP addresses are $1/mo.   We want to make it easy for you to grow!
Performance	GoGrid servers are limited to 2GB.  The amount of CPU per server is not specified.	With ENKI's cloud, you can expand from 1/10th of a server to tens of servers, without changing your application or waiting days or weeks for an upgrade.  Memory can be expanded to 16GB, or beyond on request.  Our high- performance quad and 8-core servers allow you to dedicate all the cores to a single application if you wish.
Storage	Storage is tied to instance size, included in price.	Storage is allocated independent of instance size.  Use as much as you need, to 5TB and beyond, while paying only for what you use, with quantity discounts available.
Network		Multiple gigabit connections, to multiple carriers and location at MAE-West network meeting point ensure best-in-class network performance.
Compatibility	Specific architectural and security policies interfere with certain applications.	Close to perfect.  AppLogic was designed to simulate a physical data center.  The virtual servers in your VPDC function much like physical servers - but better.  ENKI does not restrict the type of network traffic in your VPDC.
Observability/ Controllability	Self-service, except for network gateways/security, which must be set up on request.	Managed service for all VPDC setup/configuration ensures that your application runs right the first time.  Root logins available to virtual servers in your VPDC.  Operations management plans eliminate the need to log in or know anything about the server.
Observability/Monitoring	If you want to know what's going on inside your servers, you must provide your own monitoring.	ENKI  offers enterprise-grade monitoring at the application and server levels, to let you know what's going on with your VPDC and application.  We can notify you automatically if your server isn't working the way you want it to be.
Deployment	You figure out how to deploy and manage your application.  You have to understand everything about operating GoGrid and your servers, as well as the software on them.	ENKI's experienced staff of IT professionals deploys  your application in a virtual data center of your design, with full management services available.
Load Balancing	GoGrid offers hardware load balancing.	AppLogic supports any software load balancer.  Hardware load balancing available on request, including between data center locations.
Vendor Lock-In	GoGrid only, but VPDC paradigm promises ability to migrate to other data centers.	AppLogic's VPDC paradigm means that software can usually be run unchanged in ENKI's cloud.  This makes it easy to move them to other VPDCs or to a physical data center. Running applications including an entire VPDC can be moved to another AppLogic-based partner's data center with a single command.
Support	24x7 Telephone and Web-based support for the GoGrid system, but not for your server configurations or application software.  Consulting available on a per-incident/project basis.	You call the phone and we answer, with guaranteed service response times.  Or use our web-based service portal. Our system admin experts take responsibility for your VPDC, servers and software, including full outsourced operations management if you need it.
Intended Audience	Highly technically capable organizations wishing to deploy and manage their own software, more interested in price than flexibility.	Organizations requiring solutions that offer enterprise-grade guaranteed service levels without staffing investment, wishing to take advantage of ENKI's extensive data center design expertise.

Note: GoGrid specifications based on GoGrid web site as of 21-Oct-2008