Bangalore: 2012 is certainly a year where the enterprise arena went from being a sluggish platform into a fast paced, extreme, innovative plinth as new enterprise vendor heavyweights entered the marketplace with new products and existing vendors started releasing new versions incorporated with ground-breaking ideas.

Early enterprise products were subjected just towards a small group that included corporate heavyweights and other major players in the tech arena. But now the scenario has all changed. New categories have added up into the mix. E-mail, mobile, development tool, database, social software suite, social CRM, microblogging, conferencing and CMS are just some of them.  Presently companies have started releasing products after a lot of planning and research, with utilities and patches following.

With that in mind, take a look at this list, comprising 10 best and popular enterprise products of 2012.

Google Compute Engine:

Google Compute Engine is an IaaS product announced by Google at Google IO on June 29, 2012. The Google compute Engine help companies to run their large scale computing workloads on Linux virtual machines, hosted on Google’s infrastructure. According to Google the service provides faster computing power along with enhanced efficiency. The product uses Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) as the hypervisor. Along with IaaS services, the Google Compute Engine also provides RESTful API for managing resources such as disk, images, and instances.

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