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90 Cloud Computing Companies to Watch in 2011

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Ray DePena 38 2010 was certainly an exciting year in the Cloudsphere with every major technology company positioning their companies for the ultimate game of the decade Who Will Be The Future King of The Cloud? AT&T, CA, Cisco, CSC, Dell, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and Verizon among others will continue to vie for the title this year. We say goodbye to a range of Cloud computing companies; Boomi, DocVerse, Makara, Cast Iron, 3Tera, Nimsoft, 4Base, Heroku, LineSider, Stratavia, CloudKick, and others acquired in 2010, and look forward to a new year in Cloud computing developments.

90 Cloud Computing Companies to Watch in 2011

Amazon Salesforce.com Google Apps VMWare Rackspace Equinix Zuora Hosting.com rPath Joyent Appistry Terremark Worldwide Navisite Rightscale GoGrid NetSuite Eucalyptus CohesiveFT Red Hat Savvis Citrix Appirio Parallels SuccessFactors SoftLayer Relational Networks AppZero

 Datapipe Enomaly Intacct Caspio Sungard Astadia Bluewolf CloudShare LayeredTech Voxeo CloudSwitch Nubifer Cordys Tropo Cloudera Clustercorp Adaptive Computing GigaSpaces Crosscheck Networks Egnyte GoodData Nasuni Whamcloud Navajo Systems Jive Software Symplified Virtual Ark Workbooks Constant Contact FreshBooks Intuit Model Metrics Vertica Zoho 37Signals Practice Fusion Basic Gov Imonggo iCloud JumpBox Nirvanix OpenNebula Flexiant Nimbus GreenQloud Cloudant enStratus GridCentric

 Okta Nimbula Nimsoft PanTerra Networks Apptix Engine Yard Gladinet Twilio Cloud.com ReliaCloud Kaavo Intalio Workday Arjuna Edit / Addition(s): Media Temple OpSource Other excellent lists and points of reference: The 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors list The Top 150 Players in Cloud Computing 85 Cloud Computing Vendors Shaping the Emerging Cloud 50 of The Biggest and Best Cloud Computing Companies The VAR Guys SaaS 20 Index Top Ten Cloud Companies in 2Q10 Report Top Cloud Computing Providers to Watch in 2009 The list above is a subjective impression of Cloud players on my radar. Who is on yours? - Tune The Future List of India Based Cloud Computing Companies

Company AppPoint

Service

Location

Remarks

AppsOnAzure Bangalore Cloud based application infrastructure using - PaaS Microsoft Azure as the platform. I am yet to explore the details. Cloud Enabler Pune Cloud related services such as: Migration Deployment Planning

Clogeny

 Consulting CtrlS CtrlS Cloud IaaS Hyderabad On-Demand Private Cloud. 99.995% uptime Tier 4 datacenter Noida Cloud SaaS for SMEs/SMBs.

EazeWork

EazeHR SaaS EazePayroll SaaS EazeSales SaaS Cloud 2.0 CloudNet CloudServe PrivateCloud

NetMagic Solutions

Mumbai

A front runner in the Indian IaaS space.

OrangeScape

OrangeScape Chennai Studio - PaaS

USP - Visual PaaS. OrangeScape CEO Interview OrangeScape Launches into US Market with Persistent Systems Partnership 2011 TiE50 Software/Cloud Computing Winners

Ozonetel Systems

PK4 Software

KooKoo PaaS Hyderabad In India it has definitely a first-mover advantage in CTS - SaaS cloud telephony services (CTS) Impel CRM - Bangalore USP a non-western CRM for India. SaaS PK4 CEO Interview

Ramco

Ramco OnDemand SaaS Remindo SaaS

Chennai

An early mover in SaaS. An ERP on the cloud.

Remindo

Mumbai

Your company branded official social media tool in cloud (Still in Beta, free up

to 20 users) Synage DeskAway SaaS Mumbai Cloud based project management. Synage Founder & CEO Speaks The SaaS Edge by Sahil Parikh Tata Communications InstaCompute Mumbai - IaaS InstaOffice SaaS iON - ITaaS Mumbai Data Centers located at Hyderabad, Singapore InstaOffice is powered by GoogleApps Covers the entire spectrum of business processes for SMBs. Domains: Manufacturing Welness Retail Education Wolf Frameworks Wolf PaaS Bangalore Cloud PaaS with 99.97% SLA. Director Wolf Frameworks Speaks

TCS

Many Indian companies are in the cloud

Sujit John, TNN Aug 18, 2011, 09.14pm IST

Sharad Sanghi, founder and CEO of Netmagic Solutions, says his cloud business is now the fastest growing amongst all his data centre solutions. The growth is in triple digits, though from a small base. Netmagic is one of India's biggest data centre operators and Sanghi started cloud offerings about two years ago and currently has about 250 customers for that service. ESPN has used it to stream

the T20 World Cup. Manipal University uses it for its online admission and results announcement. Admission and results are occasions when for a few days, lakhs of students come to the University's website, putting enormous pressure on it. And it clearly does not make sense for the university to buy its own computing resources to cater to the pressure during those few days. With a public cloud, you can get the extra resources you need almost instantaneously, and pay only for what you use and for the time that you use it for. Ads by Google

Stockbroker India Infoline sends their market data to clients on the cloud. Ogilvy India does a lot of their online ad campaigns on the cloud. TV websites use it to handle breaking news, because loads spike at those points. We previously wrote in these pages about how redBus saw record bus ticket bookings during the December peak season last year following their shift to the Amazon cloud. Till the December before that, the online bus ticketing site was restricted by its own compute resources, and therefore used to crash when loads increased. This also put off customers who would then go elsewhere for their tickets. Amazon, one of the world's biggest cloud service providers, has other customers in India such as Greytip, a company that offers HR and payroll software solutions for businesses; V-Serv Digital Services, which has an advertising network for mobile devices; Hotelogix, a web-based hotel management system that allows hospitality venues to conduct all of their daily activities, such as reservations and front desk operations, from a unified system; Classle, a social learning enterprise that focuses on rural regions of India and which has over 45,000 users across 1,400 engineering colleges; and Marcellus TV, which has an online service for video content owners to deliver high quality videos from their own websites to computers and mobile devices.

ndus Valley Partners, a niche consultancy focused on capital markets and which has about 220 people with offices in New Delhi, Mumbai and New York, is completely on Google Apps, a completely cloud based offering. Public clouds are most attractive to smaller companies because they obviate the need to buy expensive hardware or keep people to manage their IT requirements, and it allows them to get going quickly. P A Sathyasaleen, executive director for enterprise solutions in Dell India, says textile and automotive clusters are using solutions like cloud ERP and Google apps. Enterprise movement But larger enterprises are also beginning to use them for specific purposes. "They use it when they are trying out something new, or to handle spikes or for disaster recovery," says Sanghi. The advantage of the cloud in disaster recovery, for instance, is that you pay only a base amount for the service and then pay a fuller price only when you use the service (when a disaster happens). Sathyasaleen says when large enterprises enter a new area or business, and they need new applications for that, and if these are available in the public cloud, they may use the cloud option. Dell, which so far has had horizontal cloud applications, like for software management, data encryption, email continuity (guarantees availability even during an email outage), software inventory & usage management, is now evaluating the scope for applications specific to certain industries.

Anand Ramakrishnan, GM for cloud computing services in Wipro Infotech, says he sees interest from all customer segments. "Public cloud services have been growing rapidly over the last couple of years. We have more than 30 customers currently, against a handful a few months back," he says. EKO Financial Services, a microfinance institution, uses Wipro's core banking platform that's offered on the cloud. Ramakrishnan says a leading manufacturer of glass containers and a leading food processing company use its SAP-based cloud ERP. Microsoft has over 1,300 customers in India for its cloud-based offerings, many of them their core enterprise customers. Prakash M S, director of best shore ITO India in HP, says enterprise movement to the cloud will be a bit slow. "They have their IPs (intellectual properties) etc and they can't just put it on a public cloud, for confidentiality and security reasons," he says. Ludger Rohlmann, VP of best shore ITO in HP, says global customers typically take a slice of their IT infrastructure, such as messaging and storage, and put it on the cloud. "They will see how it works, get comfortable with it, see the economic benefits of it, and then put more of their stuff on the cloud," he says. Prakash says the conventional outsourcing model took a decade to get established, but the movement to cloud will happen faster, maybe in four years. "Every day work is happening to make apps faster, make infrastructure better in terms of faster compute and better security. That will provide greater confidence to customers to adopt cloud offerings."