Storage and data center infrastructures are key to building cloud computing business. Any cloud platform attaches great importance to performance, scalability, and the value of Low-cost data storage in direct contact with customers or through service providers. The customer's data center is its lifeline, and data center security is the primary criterion for measuring cloud success. At the same time, efficient and flexible management of the data center is also the building of cloud services to achieve the basis of cloud delivery.
What companies around the world have a breakthrough in cloud computing and deserve attention?
1.Abiquo
Abiquo uses enterprise cloud software to assist in the deployment and management of the cloud by helping the private cloud, the public cloud, the hybrid cloud, and the customer and management service provider of the multiple management program.
2. Acer
PC giant Acer has not been involved in cloud computing for a long time, but at CES, the "acercloud" release has caused a big stir in the cloud computing world. The Acercloud cloud service provides a portal for accessing media files for any device. Acer says the service ensures that users can securely connect personal smart devices anytime, anywhere.
3.AppAssure
Appassure software products can be recovered and backed up and replicated across the cloud, virtual environment and physical environment, 100%, to ensure data and applications. Appassure's ability to operate across management programs makes it an Up-and-comer in the cloud computing world.
4.Appistry
Big data is a vague concept that Appistry's Ayrris products make "big data" no longer mysterious. The product has the ability to acquire a large amount of data, store, process and analyze it, and convert it into an operable intelligent data.
5. Apple
The launch of the icloud Cloud service in 2011 was a major move by Apple on cloud computing, which was synchronized with data, content, music, and video from one device to the other. Apple is also aggressively expanding its cloud data to ensure it becomes the mainstay of future cloud computing.
6.Aryaka
Aryaka, which is based on SaaS WAN optimization, starts the business by calling it "WAN optimization, the service platform," a business that is tailored to accelerate the development of the cloud computing environment. Using 15 million of dollars in funding from last year, Aryaka will bring WAN optimization to a new level.
7.Box
With its breakthrough in cloud storage and file sharing, box has become a rising star in cloud computing, and in 2011, with HP desktop computers, LG Android smartphones and more hardware partners to expand the new trails, and launch a full channel strategy to enter these business areas.
8.Carbonite
Carbonite is one of the fastest growing companies in the cloud storage space, and the name Carbonite is already known to many users and small businesses looking for automated online backup solutions. Carbonite has launched an IPO and the business is expected to continue to grow.
9.CloudAlly
With the slogan "Your partner is in the clouds", cloudally is on the list because Google Apps, and Salesforce and other users offer cloud backup solutions. Cloudally promises daily backup of all domains with account information, not limited by Amazon S3 storage, and implements one-click Recovery and Export.
10.Dropbox
The role of Dropbox in the field of cloud storage cannot be denied. Although its core users are concentrated among ordinary consumers, many savvy enterprise users have been using Dropbox cloud storage for synchronization and sharing of files many years ago. At present, through the introduction of the Enterprise version of the Dropbox for teams cloud services, Dropbox began to enter the enterprise-level market.
11.EMC
The introduction of Atmos makes EMC cloud storage a leader in cloud storage. Atmos enables enterprise and service providers to store, manage global and large-scale unstructured content to protect them and create blocks for private, public, and mixed cloud storage environments.
12.Equinix
Equinix has 38 data centers in 13 countries around the world and is a veritable cloud maker. Equinix enables cloud service providers to quickly deploy reliable cloud services service users.
13. hitachi Data Systems
Whether through infrastructure cloud, content cloud, and information cloud, Hitachi Data systems are trying to prove that all data is valuable. Hitachi provides a way to create inherited infrastructure to support all types of storage from traditional it to cloud delivery.
14.Mozy
EMC's affiliate, Mozy, promotes online backup to a new level. The company offers continuous and customized backup services that feature "once set, sit back and relax," while the data is encrypted.
15.Nirvanix
Nirvanix is focused only on cloud storage, whether public cloud private cloud or mixed cloud, Nirvanix can provide an enterprise-class cloud storage for security, reliability, and repeatability requirements, and does not allow for users with timed or erratic downtime.
16.Riverbed
Riverbed focuses on cloud services and introduces solutions for WAN optimization. Along with its whitewater cloud storage solution, riverbed is ready for cloud computing.
17.ScaleXtreme
Scalextreme Company's key word is "scalability." The company provides server automation technology for distributed data centers based on cloud computing, providing simple extensibility for a unified automation platform to build and control physical, virtual and public cloud servers.
18.StorSimple
Storsimple provides cloud storage services for Windows and VMware infrastructures, integrates cloud computing into pre-installed apps, and provides a single device for tiered storage, archiving, data protection, and disaster recovery. Storsimple promises that Storsimple's cloud storage will reduce costs by up to 80% compared with traditional storage.
19.Symform
Symform's goal is to transform cloud storage. With its patented technology, Symform provides unlimited cloud storage services and ensures that the symform is stored in a safer, faster, and more reliable form than its competitors.
20.VMware
As a leader in virtualization, VMware has deployed cloud computing and may release products focused on cloud computing, including Vcloud director and other products. Cloud Foundry's release shows VMware is using the Pathfinder platform, and VMware will continue to short-based the marketplace as a pioneer of virtualization.
You can implement the cloud platform you want, but without applications, cloud computing is just another model on the white board. After all, people apply cloud software to manage the company's financial position, recruit new employees, and handle customer orders ... It can be seen that cloud computing is a flat area of competition: Building app vendors to send cloud versions of products, and a new generation of startups challenging their dominant application areas. Some well-known manufacturers have launched cloud versions of related products, but the emergence of some emerging forces in the field has challenged their dominance.
Here are some of the top 20 most cool cloud software vendors:
1, Acumatica
Acumatica provides ERP software for midsize enterprises that access applications and files through browsers. In the data center or cloud, Acumatica products are provided to users in SaaS form, and users must obtain licenses to use their products and services through purchase.
2, Citrix
Si Jie is a personal cloud revolution leader of the show, from cloud.com to Sharefile, si Jie accumulated its enough strength to make it in this cloud war invincible. Citrix launches the Citrix delivery infrastructure portfolio for the cloud service provider market. Si Jie integrates Ching proven virtualization products and networking offerings to support the business operations of today's most large Internet and Web service providers. Jie combines the proven business delivery infrastructure artifacts of the world's largest cloud and enterprise data centers to provide a highly scalable architecture that can support rapid enterprise innovation and help reduce costs.
3, Cloud Cruiser
Whether it's a vicious workload, a pricing difference, or uncontrolled virtual machine sprawl or cloud usage, there are many ways to overspend in the cloud. Cloud Cruiser provides a cloud cost management solution that enables companies to optimize infrastructure costs and operating costs in the context of a corporate-managed private cloud, a cloud-mixed cloud environment.
4, Google
Google Apps has become the gold standard in cloud communication and collaboration, and Google's application engine is a cloud platform, and Google, the search giant, has combined its web site with cloud computing to expand its portfolio. And Google to bring partners to sail together!
5, Intacct
INTACCT provides accounting and financial management products based on cloud computing, which solves the problem that enterprises need their own financial management software, hardware, backup and recovery data for a long time.
6, Intuit
Intuit is a personal finance software developer, Intuit from a software-based financial management and frustrated Microsoft in the financial software market. Their QuickBooks online, QuickBooks online Payroll (on-line payroll) and Intuit Payments FX (Payment solutions) are well-known software.
7, Microsoft
Microsoft is doing its best to attack the cloud market. Cloud Office suite Office 365, Cloud development platform Azure, and online customer relationship Management salesforce.com all show Microsoft's determination.
8, NetSuite
NetSuite is an application manufacturer specializing in the provision of customized enterprise management software for small and medium-sized enterprises, which is well known for its online accounting, ERP systems, customer relationship management and E-commerce software.
9, Oracle
Oracle is the world's leading information management software developer, whose complex relational database products are used by the top 1000 companies in the wealth list, and is now moving from a single pure software vendor to an integrated enterprise with both hardware and software.
10, Piston Cloud Computing
Piston Cloud Computing is one of the first manufacturers to create OpenStack based products, with more than 100 open source cloud infrastructure support companies developed jointly with NASA.
11, Quest
Quest is a highly innovative software company that has developed time-saving, economical, easy-to-use, innovative IT management software that can be applied to physics, virtualization, and the cloud.
12, Rpath
rpath compatibility, speed, and reliability are key elements of a rpath cloud product, and it is the deployment of a growth automation solution and the maintenance of a virtual and cloud computing environment that spans applications.
13, Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com has been engaged in cloud business for many years, and the fields involved from the initial cloud CRM to what is known as "social enterprise" (cloud, mobile and social), but Salesforce.com seems to have always been halfway.
14, SAP
SAP is the world's number one ERP software company, providing management solutions for enterprises, helping them to establish or improve their business processes, make them more efficient and flexible, and continuously generate new value for the enterprise. SAP has gradually expanded its lineup by acquiring Cloud Human Capital Management company SuccessFactors.
15, Soasta
Soasta is a company that provides cloud testing platforms for applications, and Soasta's Cloudtest cloud testing platform allows developers to test the efficiency of both Web applications and mobile applications. It can be used as a cloud of on-demand services, but also as a virtual hardware device, allowing developers to test and monitor the application of bugs, loading time and problems.
16, Taleo
Taleo provides a fee-based software application platform for businesses and offers recruitment, performance management, compensation benefits, succession planning, leadership development, and software analysis solutions.
17, Workday
Workday software services through the Internet, mainly to help enterprises to deal with payroll finance and human resources and other aspects of the business.
18, Wyse Marvell
Wyse Marvell is the "culprit" for speeding up PC deaths. Its products and services will change the way people interact with their computers, mobile devices and clouds through innovative technology in the industry, making it easy for users to access a variety of computing resources and secure, reliable, and convenient access, retrieval, management and sharing of content between devices and clouds.
19, Zoho
Zoho has more than 20 online software covering business, productivity, and collaboration. Companies can use these software to run business processes from the cloud and manage enterprise information. Zoho's products cover a wide range of areas such as CRM, mail, Office software, checkout, project management, and web conferencing applications.
20, Zuora
Zuora focuses on its so-called "economic package", which provides cloud-based subscription billing and payment services. Enterprises can provide subscription services to customers through Zuora subscription products.
Security is a critical issue, both for private and public cloud deployments. Typically, cloud security refers to user authentication and data protection, which are implemented through data encryption.
Among them, many of the issues that threaten cloud security are found in employee access to cloud services and related data management validation. In addition, how to extend the policies and standards of internal networks to the cloud is also a challenge for many corporate institutions in the "cloud age".
Now, let's take a look at the world's top 20 cloud security vendors selected by CRN!
1.Acronis
Acronis's strength is data protection, disaster recovery. Acronis has been committed to helping customers keep business open, reduce downtime, and protect corporate information.
2.Akamai
Akamai is the world's largest CDN service provider, and Akamai is one of a handful of new companies designed to eliminate Internet bottlenecks and boost downloads, and is a "content release" company dedicated to the speed of online traffic.
3.BMC software Company
BMC is a well-known IT infrastructure application company, and the BMC recently announced the acquisition of Numara software, which is the world's leading integrated IT management solution provider in the midrange market. This strategic acquisition will further accelerate the growth of the BMC's software as a service (SaaS) business, while enabling enterprise users of all sizes to gain IT management capabilities provided by an industry leader.
4.CA Technologies
The cloud security construction of CA Technologies is one of the most "fierce" in cloud computing strategy. Its cloud security solution provides identity authentication and access management for cloud applications and information in the cloud, as well as single sign-on and other security features.
5.Check Point
Check Point will 2011 strategic positioning: cloud-oriented. Its SMB cloud hosting security service provides small and midsize enterprises with a security solution that integrates all the features of cloud computing. In addition, it has signed the latest agreement with Amazon, which stipulates that Check point customers can extend the security features of their own software and devices to Amazon's cloud computing platform.
6.CloudPassage
The Cloudpassage company interprets "cloud security" from multiple perspectives to ensure the security of the entire public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud on the cloud server, providing real-time security detection of cloud servers, including security events and visibility of system state.
7.dome9
Dome9 itself serves as an automated cloud security firewall Management service provider that centralizes the security of cloud servers in both public and private environments.
8.EVault
Data recovery is essential in cloud computing, and Evault is an expert in this area, and is dedicated to getting users to get their data as quickly as possible.
9.Fortinet Company
Breaking the hardware "old rules", the Fortinet company brought network security and unified threat management to the cloud. The recent launch of four virtual devices has focused on building virtualization and cloud environments, allowing businesses to protect their data in their private and mixed clouds.
10.IBM
IBM hopes to use its SmartCloud product suite to make cloud computing "smarter". The blue giant protects the IBM Cloud security infrastructure and services by providing managed security services and other products.
11. McAfee
A wholly owned subsidiary of Intel. The Maikfeil security platform provides effective security for input and output traffic between the enterprise and the public cloud through a highly integrated modular solution. The platform can provide the following modules: Web security, mobile security, cloud access control, e-mail security.
12.Nimbula
Nimbula's founder, Chris Pinkham, was a vice president of the Amazon Engineering department, one of the executives who led the Amazon team to create EC2 cloud services. Nimbula's main business is to bring Amazon's EC2 high efficiency and flexible cloud computing experience into the data center of large enterprises. At the same time, for the needs of large enterprises, can be installed in the enterprise customer private hardware resources, and provide different security levels of access mode.
13.NTT
NTT's cloud services are typically "focused", and the managed security suite provided by NTT ensures that the cloud environment is "impregnable". In addition, NTT offers customized firewalls, dedicated firewalls, dedicated VLANs, VPN management, and other access control services.
14.Okta
Okta is a company that mainly provides cloud application management services to enterprises. The company's platform allows companies to control users, applications, and data behind clouds and firewalls. The services provided by the Okta company enable IT managers to have a central directory and replicate these directories to all cloud applications.
15.Oxygen Cloud
While the storage business is the core business of oxygen cloud, it is also committed to data security building and provides mobile access services that enable users to access files through any application or device.
16.RightScale Company
Rightscale's cloud resource access and usage management should be controlled by setting management. Rightscale companies allow users to control their access and security management credentials, permissions and credential, and audit and logging events.
17. Symantec
Symantec's main business is to provide platform-independent, enterprise-class cloud protection, reduce security workloads across virtual and physical deployments, and identify, monitor and manage malicious programs, vulnerabilities, or noncomplaint systems.
18. Trend Technology
Cloud security Vendors Trend technology is committed to the public cloud and private cloud data protection, to provide users with data encryption services to protect the privacy of user data. Trend Technology Key management products can be used as hosting services or preset software applications.
19.Veracode
Veracode provides a cloud-based application security testing platform and provides automated test software and remediation services for static and dynamic application security. Veracode scans binary code to find and fix defects based on enterprise risk management policies.
20.Zenoss
You can observe and monitor your entire network through Zenoss. Zenoss consists of alarm console, network discovery, performance monitoring, service monitoring, and directory modules. The advantages of Zenoss are available for enterprise use, free of charge, easy to install and maintain, and can be standardized through zenpacks.
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