Top 50 possible Cloud Computing Providers for 2009
By Tarry Singh at 19 December, 2008, 8:57 am
I have accumulated this list of firms that could possibly end up fighting and even merging eventually to fight the commoditization monster that will, in its contractionary grip, squeeze the little players out The middle-weights, will have to find a way to go downwards, innovate and rise to gradually grab the rest of the pie.
Note 1: Jeff Barr emailed me wondering why I left out Amazon so here’s the explanation. I have intentionally left Amazon out of it as it is beyond that fight and is way ahead pioneering the Cloud Computing space. This chart focuses on possible CC leaders. Amazon has successfully demonstrated its sole leadership in this terrain already. Jeff is truly leading Amazon on a LCO (Low Cost Operator) path, we are yet to see if the other parties are capable of that trick!
Note 2: A detailed article, in the Data Center Prediction Series will explain, why I used these firms. This by no means says that they will EVENTUALLY be winners, some will lose massively, some really big ones. So don’t get too excited about the big numbers (employee base/Revenue stream etc) as that might dwindles dramatically.
This is my first post where I am developing a bit in PHP, for the already ready-to-use stuff that Fusion Charts provide. Right now I’m using old fashioned excel ->xml->use render function to display thsi data. Soon I will embed some other functions such as “save as image”, PDF, ppt etc, so you can save and use it for your references. I will also try to embed those interactive tools on the posts, after I have the plugin working for making that happen. For now check out this charts page.
Data: ButlerGroup
Tool: FusionCharts
Development efforts: Myself
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Are these a list of private cloud providers? What about the public cloud like Amazon and Rackspace?
Correct. Although I didn’t want to make that distinction but I need data on the private players that can put them in the same space.
can you please explain what these charts show? as in, for example cash/employees chart, what does cash and employee refer to? Same goes for the opportunity and fighter charts, what does the number refer to? i am an undergraduate student exploring the topic of cloud computing for my research paper. thank you for you time.