Cloud resources are typically offered with on demand plug and-play capabilities, allowing individuals and businesses to use only what they need, when they need it. This flexibility to build, manage, and deliver small and large scale web and mobile applications on the cloud has seen an explosion of adoption from the hyperscalers to startups. With virtual server hosting, cloud providers bring diverse resources over the internet, such as big data analytics, IoT, compute, and more to streamline development and generally make lives easier. Here, we take a look at the main players solving common issues with outstanding user-friendliness and ever agile product offerings.
10. Dropbox
Founded: 2007
CEO: Drew Houston
Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and cloud based storage solutions. Designed for various business sizes to store files and documents, saved data or content can be accessed from any device with an internet connection. Dropbox was formed due to Drew Houston’s bad habit of forgetting his USB drives, culminating in a crashed hard drive with no backup. Houston created his own personal server and wrote a program that would allow him to access the server and its data from any location.
9. Adobe
Founded: 2012
CEO: Shatanu Narayan
Adobe Creative Cloud is unlike the other vendors, primarily focusing on the creative aspect of cloud computing. With a Software-as a-Service (SaaS) offering, Adobe provides an array of tools geared towards graphic design, video editing, photography, and more. CEO Shantanu Naryan told Forbes: “You can argue that the most important thing on the internet now is authentication of content. When we create the world’s content, we have to help with the authenticity of that content, or the provenance of that content.”
8. Dell Tech Cloud
Founded: 2019
CEO: Michael Dell
Dell Technology combines the capacity of VMware software and Dell Technologies' infrastructure to provide an integrated multicloud approach. As a hybrid, multi-cloud provider, Dell focuses its core offering around storage and data protection. Addressing Dell Technologies World 2022 in his keynote speech, CEO Michael Dell highlighted the company’s “US$101bn multicloud vision, its developer future and support for Ukraine during the current conflict with Russia.
7. Digital Ocean
Founded: 2011
CEO: Yancey Spruill
Digital Ocean is designed to meet developers’ needs for deploying and scaling applications that run simultaneously on multiple computers. As the third-largest hosting company globally, Digital Ocean has two primary product offerings: compute and storage. “The cloud market is one massive opportunity,” explained Yancey Spruill, CEO, to CEO Magazine. “There are 14 million new companies created every year. That’s 50 million software engineers. Today, those groups spend about US$50bn on the cloud; tomorrow, that’s going to be US$100bn.”
6. IBM Cloud
Founded: 2005
CEO: Arvind Krishna
IBM has an abundance of services to help simplify many software development tasks, blending PaaS with IaaS to provide a holistic cloud experience. In February, IBM announced a hybrid cloud partnership with enterprise software firm SAP and at a recent summit, Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna said: “Everyone wants to use multiple public clouds. People are still going to use on-premise; people are still going to worry about data sovereignty. People want flexibility of deployment, they want speed, and they want value.
5. Salesforce
Founded: 2009
CEO: Brett Taylor, Marc Benoiff
Salesforce offers cloud-based CRM, customer service, marketing automation, sales, and more. Their customer relationship tools suite help businesses grasp a data driven approach and their reach is, in this respect, prolific. Speaking to Silicon Valley Business Journal, Brett Taylor, co-CEO of Salesforce, said: “You can start companies from anywhere. You can hire from anywhere. Silicon Valley is now in the cloud." Adding to this dialogue over the importance of cloud infrastructure, Marc Benioff, co-CEO, told a company conference in New York that "office mandates are never going to work", according to Yahoo Finance.
4. Alibaba Cloud
Founded: 2009
CEO: Jeff Zhang
Alibaba is a global leader in the cloud with a focus on security and artificial intelligence. The Alibaba Cloud is the second-largest cloud service provider around the world, powering almost half of China’s 4.97 million websites. “The rapid increase in data volume and scale, together with higher demand for lower latency, calls for the creation of new tech infrastructure,” said Alibaba Cloud Intelligence President Jeff Zhang in a release regarding Alibaba’s Cloud Infrastructure Processing Units (CIPU), their latest ‘homegrown silicon’ venture.
3. Google Cloud Platform
Founded: 2008
CEO: Sundar Pichai
The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is an assemblage of services that operate on the same infrastructure used to power Google Search, Youtube, and several other offerings. CEO of Google and Alphabet Sundar Pichai recently announced plans to invest US$9.5bn in data centres and offices across the U.S. “One of our state-of-the-art data centres is in Mayes County, Oklahoma. I’m excited to announce that, there, we are launching the world’s largest publicly-available machine learning hub for our Google Cloud customers.”
2. Microsoft Azure
Founded: 2008
CEO: Satya Nadella
Microsoft Azure Founded: 2008 CEO: Satya Nadella Microsoft Azure offers an abundance of on-demand computing services designed for efficient building in the cloud, with four different kinds of cloud computing: infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS), and serverless. A Microsoft spokesperson told Data Centre Dynamics: “Across the globe, we have seen unprecedented growth in the cloud. With this surge, coupled with macro trends impacting the whole industry, we’ve taken steps to address customer increases in capacity while also expediting server deployment in our data centres. "Our priority remains ensuring business continuity for customers. In addition to managing and planning for growth, we actively load balance as needed. If it does become necessary to put capacity restrictions in place, we will first restrict trials and internal workloads to prioritise growth of existing customers.”
1. AWS
Founded: 2006
CEO: Adam Selipsky
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world-leading cloud vendor, boasting over 200 integrated features and services, in addition to 30% of the total cloud market share. Offering a free tier cloud option, AWS enables businesses to test various services free of charge and without any commitments. Amazon’s cloud unit grew 36.5% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2022, slightly faster than analysts projected. AWS revenue totaled US$18.44bn in the quarter, above the US$18.27bn consensus among analysts polled by StreetAccount. That works out to about 16% of Amazon’s total revenue, according to CNBC. At Mobile World Congress 2022, AWS CEO Adam Selipsky referenced several partnerships with telecoms firms including Telia, T-mobile, Vodacom and Bell. “There is a lot of innovation across the industry, but we’re seeing cloud infrastructure being used for more – including to transform core systems.”
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