If there is something that has been spreading through the IT industry like wildfire it would have to be cloud computing. With cloud computing solutions in place, both startup businesses and established businesses are clamoring continuously for customer retention. The following is a list of top 10 cloud computing companies you should watch out for:

  • Amazon Web services - Amazon provides more than half a dozen cloud computing services that include elastic compute cloud and simple storage service among others to provide tailor-made solutions for your needs. Amazon is one of the best innovators in web-based computing and it offers pay as you go access to its customers to data storage space and virtual servers. Amazon has also managed to stay ahead of the curve by launching elastic compute cloud in the year 2006 well ahead of its competitors. There are hundreds and thousands of small business organizations that are included in the customer list of Amazon Web services and they also have prominent customers such as Washington Post, New York Times and Eli Lilly etc.
  • AT&T - They have been in the cloud computing business for some time that and to Amazon and Google are the biggest names in cloud computing today, a AT&T has managed to have its own long list of customers because of the excellent infrastructure that they have. This company is located in Dallas and they have the essential infrastructure in place to cater to a variety of needs. Their biggest companies are Verizon has also started offering cloud computing services, but a lot of work still needs to go in and hopefully in the present year they would be able to offer better cloud computing solutions.
  • Enomaly - This Company was founded in the year 2004 and is located in Toronto. The specialty of this company is that they offer elastic computing platform and this platform has the capability to integrate enterprise data centers with business cloud computing offerings. Their services are a bit different from the other organizations because they do not offer their own web-based services - they have software that allows easy data management on cloud computing platforms. A couple of bank and government organizations have already started using Enomaly services.
  • Google - if there is one company that knows the Internet in and out, it would have to be Google. They have also started offering cloud computing services and going by the current trends, it seems they have not only been able to successfully integrate computing into day-to-day Internet applications such as Google docs and Gmail, but also been able to provide developers to host applications through Google platforms.
  • GoGrid - GoGrid has been around in the cloud computing business for quite some time and they are the major competitors of Amazon. However, they are pretty much different from Amazon because they offer Windows server 2008 instances and also hundred percent uptime service level agreements. They already have a huge list of customers that include both medium-sized and large enterprises.
  • Microsoft - Microsoft has started offering cloud computing services that can be used to build and enhance web hosted applications. The service is still a need to stand the test of time and maybe in the near future they would have an answer to every cloud computing problem.
  • NetSuite - This Company has been extremely successful in the past for offering online solutions in the form of business software and now they are in the cloud computing business. They have an aggressive marketing team and have already promised 50% discount to people shifting from Sage software to NetSuite.
  • Rackspace - They have been around in the cloud computing business since 1998 and they offer a host of different cloud computing services that could be easily compared to Amazon and other major cloud computing services.
  • RightScale - This Company was also founded in the year 2006 and they help people manage their cloud servers better by offering solutions that perform load balancing.
  • Salesforce.com - This company has been around since the year 1999 and they are actually one of the first to research on cloud computing and develop a host of solutions. We have a number of products that include a platform for development and hosting of web applications.