Our personal files are stored in the cloud. We maintain friendships through cloud applications. Mobile phones and tablets run powerful applications through the cloud, creating new devices, and shedding old devices like netbooks and someday PCs.
The IT department has gone from not believing the cloud has the potential to bring in billions of dollars to being willing to spend money to use it. Instead of having to buy all the apps and servers for their work, they can now just rent them out.
Here are the 10 biggest cloud companies in the world:
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1. Amazon Cloud
2. VMware Cloud
3. Microsoft Cloud
4. Salesforce
5. Google Cloud
6. Rackspace Cloud
7. IBM Cloud
8. Citrix Cloud
9. Joyen Cloud
10. SoftLayer Cloud
1. Amazon Cloud
There’s no doubt about Amazon’s number one spot. Basically, this company invented the IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-cloud – IaaS) market.
Amazon’s cloud offers a wide range of options. From offering storage space worth a few cents a month to renting supercomputers for $5,000 an hour.
Amazon is currently ranked number 1 in the world in terms of cloud.
Amazon is focusing on the enterprise segment by adding more security features to its cloud and hiring enterprise salespeople. Surely the giant will not stand by and watch VMware, Citrix and OpenStack snap away enterprise customers. It’s amazing how an online retailer can make so many changes in the IT industry and in our daily lives.
2. VMware Cloud
As of this year, VMware has not yet offered its own cloud based service. The company only specializes in providing vCloud software to build the cloud.
VMware is one of the biggest players in the cloud software market, competing with OpenStack technology (operated by a consortium of vendors IBM, Rackspace, HP) and Citrix.
However, in March, VMware changed its strategy when it announced plans to launch its own public cloud. This is an interesting choice because there are currently about 200 cloud service providers built on vCloud and now VMware will have to compete with them.
3. Microsoft Cloud
Microsoft is also a big business in cloud computing with Azure. Microsoft also offers a wide range of enterprise applications in its cloud from SQL Server databases to Microsoft Office 365.
This is a popular PaaS cloud with many programmers writing applications using Microsoft’s coding engine. The company also just expanded Azure into the IaaS market, and even lets users run Linux in its cloud at a price that promises to be lower than Amazon’s.
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