The Ecole des Mines de Nantes, and more precisely the Ascola team, has been developping a sofware called Entropy under the LGPL open source license since 2006. This software is an auomonomic framework aiming to manipulate virtual machines in data centers. In the cloud computing terminology, Entropy is IaaS solution. The first application for Entropy is energy management of data and computation centers. Depending on the workload of a center, our solution makes it possible to decrease the direct power consumption (the consumption of the servers) from 20 to 50%. This software is currently used by some of our R&D partners such as Orange Labs, Bull or the Direction Général des Finances Public (DGFiP), but also by some partners acting as "clients" such as the two software engineering companies Devoteam and Logica. ENtropy is also one of the three components of the CloudWare initiative led by the OW2 open source consortium in the field of Cloud Computing. Thanks to these proofs of concept, the core of the sofwtare is now mature and some of our partners plan to use it in production provided that a strong support can be ensured by a compagny. Beyond these partners and following the price "prix de la croissance numerique" awarded at end of 2009, we have benn contacted by other companies which are interested in our solution and by capital risker (Chausson Finance) and a business angel (M. Brandsma). There are economic interests for companies (reduction of the power costs) but also tachnical interest (flexibility) and the fact that the software is open source is a actually appreciated. For capital riskers, the software is at the heart of a current issue : the increase in the number od data centers and the will to reduce the carbon footprint of companies. Our numerous meetings allowed us to determine more clearly what the needs of the users of our solution would be. We also began to work on th development of our software product and to think about patenting with the help of Atlanpole. However it is necessary, so as to persuade some future clients, to carry out several scientific, technical, financial and commercial actions in the next 18 months. The aim of the project is to carry out some commercial studies (market research, status of the future compagny, intellectual property), to complete the core of our technological solution (graphic interface, packaging), to develop convincing demonstrators (with comprativ benchmarks) and to consolidate our scientific work-in-progress (thermal load balancing). At the end of the project, the objectif will be to create a new compagny so as to be able to sell some support on our solution and some new software components.