Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud service provider by far. Amazon, like most of the big cloud providers, doesn’t disclose much about current or planned data centers. Accenture analyst estimates that Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) runs on a 450,000 servers. Amazon does not break out AWS revenue, but some say it could already be a billion dollar business. Here are seven cloud rivals;1: Rackspace: Rackspace encompasses managed services and pure hosting businesses, it’s also a major cloud provider with actual, paying customers.
2: Google: Google could already be the biggest cloud player. If you count all that Google Apps and Gmail storage, then Google’s obviously a huge player.
3: Microsoft: Windows Azure has big capacity, but actual traction is unclear. Microsoft just launched an Azure focused startup accelerator in Israel to help boost demand. Next week, it is expected to announce timing for the first of its ERP products.
4: IBM: IBM SmartCloud is coming up fast.
5: Hewlett-Packard: HP’s been all over the map on cloud plans, promising an Azure-based implementation a few years ago that has gone nowhere but HP’s cloud will add features and capabilities beyond what AWS provides.
6: VMware: VMware’s vCloud already runs a ton of clouds for third-party providers, and the company’s Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service is gaining traction.
7: Facebook:With more than 800 million users, Facebook doesn’t offer cloud services now, but then again, Amazon used to just sell books. Facebook could evolve into many things.
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