The 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors Of 2013

Grazed from CRN. Author: Jack McCarthy.

In the coming months, the cloud will change businesses in ways we can’t imagine. Companies are rushing to develop new technologies to speed cloud development. Across the board, vendors young and old are offering new solutions that are making cloud computing easier, faster, more effective and less expensive.

The cloud is not new. Software-as-a-Service models promoted by Salesforce.com’s on-demand CRM packages captured the attention of businesses years ago. Hosting centers have handled infrastructure needs. Virtualization, eliminating the need to keep hardware on-premise, has acted as a disrupter of traditional IT notions. Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN).com formalized the cloud business model using its own infrastructure and opened the floodgates of the cloud era…

But cloud computing has now passed a tipping point, as business leaders recognize the benefits and are issuing orders to get into the cloud, fast. Infrastructure-as-a-Service, at first dominated by Amazon Web Services’ automated public cloud model and followed by Rackspace and others using OpenStack, open-source standards, is now being offered to businesses in public, private or hybrid models. The action in this space now centers on making it easy for enterprises to pick and choose what mixture of public and private infrastructure makes them feel comfortable…

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