5 Powerful Competitors in Cloud Computing


Bangalore: Competition exists everywhere be it politics, business, industries or the glamour world and Cloud is not different there is intense competition in the cloud business as well. Cloud computing has revolutionized the technology industry and since it generates good revenue all cloud service providers are in a race to take the lead. Cloud is a set of technologies and market structures that invite competition, as a result the market is hyper competitive in ways that are new and innovative.

Below listed are top key players in the Cloud Business

# 1 Amazon

Amazon has emerged as the champion in the cloud computing world. This company is undoubtedly the no.1 provider of cloud infrastructure with its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offering, and also tops the list of cloud platforms for development and deployment of applications. The reason why the company has made it big is because of the fact that they provide attractive services to the business groups and also because of their customer friendly approach. A recent research from Accenture analyst Huan Liu estimates that Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) runs on a whopping 450,000 servers.

Amazon is also the most preferred company for cloud management because of its S3 Simple Storage Service offering. The main attractive feature of this company is that the customers need not purchase any hardware for their business, instead they can use Amazon’s cloud infrastructure for a small rent and store their data. Amazon, like most of the big cloud providers, doesn’t disclose much about current or planned data centers neither does the company break out Amazon web Services (AWS) revenue, but experts predict it could probably be a billion dollar Business Company reports Barb Darrow in Gigaom.com