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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REIEW) — Cloud hosting resources marketplace SpotCloud (www.spotcloud.com) announced this week that it has created the open source SpotCloud OpenStack Connector, an easy tool for companies building clouds on the OpenStack framework to make their services available on the SpotCloud market.

In the announcement, SpotCloud calls the release an important step in its efforts to open the SpotCloud market to the widest possible range of cloud services. The SpotCloud OpenStack Connector code is available for download from the company’s website. It is free open source software released under the Apache license.

The SpotCloud market is a kind of clearinghouse for infrastructure as a service resources, enabling sellers of cloud hosting to get their services in front of a community of buyers, who register for the service, and set up an account with SpotCloud in order to buy the cloud processing.

SpotCloud was created by Canadian-based cloud hosting provider Enomaly (www.enomaly.com)

SpotCloud enables service providers to sell branded cloud services, or to sell off excess cloud capacity anonymously. Suppliers control how much of their capacity is available, and in what configurations.

Enomaly, for instance sells its branded services through the marketplace (and possibly anonymously), as you can see in the image accompanying this story.

According to the announcement, the OpenStack Connector easily connects new or existing OpenStack deployments to the SpotCloud marketplace.