Cloud computing Seven Tycoon: Who can replace Amazon's first throne?

For now, Amazon can be regarded as the world's largest cloud service provider website, and this conclusion has also been confirmed by third-party data. Like most Web sites that offer cloud services, Amazon never disclosed any information about existing or new data centers.

According to Accenture analyst Liu Huan, there are as many as 450,000 servers managed by Amazon Elastic Cloud (Amazon EC2), and its web services revenue has been reported as high as one billion U.S. dollars. There is no doubt that Amazon has been steady Sitting on the top spot in cloud computing, the seven major rivals below will face fierce competition over the next few years.

1. Rackspace

Rackspace is one of the world's leading hosting service providers and the leading cloud service provider. Led by Gartner analyst Lydia Leong, Rackspace has settled on cloud computing's top spot with revenue and VMs (virtual memory) as the yardstick. Data pointed out that Rackspace's website revenue from 100 million US dollars in 2010 increased to 189 million in 2011. Going forward, Rackspace will need to invest in more online OpenStack software if it wants to continue its revenue hikes.

Google

Speaking of physical servers, Google is by far the largest cloud service provider. It's hard to estimate how much Google's site revenue is, but one thing is for sure is that it is one of the few companies that can compete with Amazon in terms of cloud computing investments; with its many apps and Gmail storage, Google has Have a strong competitive edge. But its App Search Engine Services platform can not be a major factor behind the company's growth.

Microsoft

Microsoft's Azure operating system has plenty of capacity, but the actual traction is not yet clear - but what is certain is that the product will be popular. Not long ago, Microsoft released an initial Azure-based acceleration device in Israel; next week Microsoft will unveil the first ERP system for Azure, one of Microsoft's flagship software.

IBM

According to a cloud storage expert statistics, developed by IBM SmartCloud applications more than AWS and Rackspace. I was surprised, but it seems that it is also reasonable thing - IBM's huge size and rich resources convincing. And, like Microsoft, IBM has adopted Hadoop as the foundation for InfoSphere BigInsights cloud services.

5. Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard has long been a part of the cloud project, and Azure-based compilers promised several years ago are now widely used. In an interview with the New York Times last week, HP cloud services executive Zorawar said HP's cloud services will have more capabilities and capabilities than AWS. He also said that in the field of cloud computing development, HP is willing to fully compete with Amazon. Although the shares of Hewlett-Packard have dropped recently, it is still a strong competitor, and cloud services will be HP's priority projects.

VMWares

New York, Granville Rui software has also provided a large number of cloud computing services for third-party suppliers, the company's Cloud Foundry service platform also received a lot of attention. Mozy Cloud Storage, which VIA runs for its parent EMC management, also helps establish the company's competitiveness in cloud computing services.

It does not make much sense that Facebook spent a lot of time and effort building the data center. It invests past experience into open-computing projects to harness open resources for hardware design. Facebook already has more than 800 million users, but it's just a fuss about clouds. Indeed, Facebook is not yet available for the time being cloud services, but in the past Amazon only sell book only. Facebook may also involve more areas, as Derek of GigaOM said, it may be your next software provider.

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Robert Roberts, chairman of Greystone Solutions, a consulting firm based in Boston, said: "To compete with Amazon, you need to have three qualities - a lot of money invested, strong technical management capabilities and keep the software updated.Google and Microsoft not only There are financial input, technical support is no problem, but both are bound by their own core business.If Facebook find a new development project, perhaps it will be the dark horse in this competition.An antitrust litigation before the Amazon Will continue to maintain the current momentum of development. "

These seven companies should be cloud computing's second top candidate, and may even replace Amazon's top throne. I do not know if I missed any competitor?