Companies to Watch: Public CompaniesBy TR Editors
Name: Adobe, www.adobe.com/products/air Market Cap (in billions): 15.8 Cloud Products: AIR, LiveCycle ES Developer Express Notable Acquisitions and Partnerships: None Major Customers: eBay, New York Times, Time Warner Market Position: Lets programmers develop cloud-based applications that can use local computing resources when needed. Name: Akamai, www.akamai.com Market Cap (in billions): 3.8 Cloud Products: EdgeComputing, Web Application Accelerator, NetStorage, Global Traffic Manager Notable Acquisitions and Partnerships: OpSource Major Customers: MySpace, HP Market Position: Rapidly remobilizing its content delivery network for cloud computing. Name: Amazon, aws.amazon.com Market Cap (in billions): 37.4 Cloud Products: Amazon Web Services Notable Acquisitions and Partnerships: Amazon has made venture investments in Engine Yard and Elastra Major Customers: Linden Lab (Second Life), Washington Post Market Position: Offers à la carte computing power, storage, and Web content delivery. Name: Google, www.google.com/a Market Cap (in billions): 137.4 Cloud Products: Google Apps (Gmail, Google Docs), App Engine Notable Acquisitions and Partnerships: Postini Major Customers: Genentech, University of Arizona, city government of Washington, DC Market Position: With the launch of App Engine, developers can use Google's infrastructure to host and maintain their own applications. Name: IBM, www.ibm.com/cloud Market Cap (in billions): 143.5 Cloud Products: Computing on Demand Notable Acquisitions and Partnerships: Outblaze Major Customers: Indigo BioSystems, Elizabeth Arden, United States Golf Association, University of Pretoria Market Position: Its 10 global cloud-computing labs let businesses tap into IBM's computing power and expertise in building and managing data centers. Name: Intel, www.intel.com Market Cap (in billions): 92.1 Cloud Products: Xeon 5500 processor, Data Center Manager, Node Manager Notable Acquisitions and Partnerships: None Major Customers: Market Position: Recently released Xeon 5500 processor could dominate the huge data centers that will be built as cloud computing expands. Name: Rackspace, www.mosso.com Market Cap (in billions): 1.3 Cloud Products: Mosso Cloud Sites, Cloud Files, Cloud Servers Notable Acquisitions and Partnerships: Slicehost, Jungle Disk Major Customers: Razorfish, Radio Flyer Market Position: Its cloud-computing division, Mosso, is promising more reliability, better support, and less downtime than main competitor Amazon Web Services. Name: SalesForce.com, www.salesforce.com/platform Market Cap (in billions): 4.8 Cloud Products: Force.com Notable Acquisitions and Partnerships: InStranet Major Customers: Harrah's Entertainment, Japan Post, New Jersey Transit Market Position: With Force.com, the company has created a platform that lets a business's IT staff build and host applications using the company's infrastructure. Name: Sun, www.sun.com/solutions/cloudcomputing Market Cap (in billions): 7.82 Cloud Products: Sun Open Cloud Platform, Sun Cloud Notable Acquisitions and Partnerships: Q-layer Major Customers: None yet; product launching in beta this summer Market Position: Promising a set of open APIs, the company is launching cloud storage and computing services later this year. Name: Yahoo, research.yahoo.com/cloud_computing Market Cap (in billions): 22.7 Cloud Products: Yahoo Small Business, Zimbra Notable Acquisitions and Partnerships: Zimbra Major Customers: Comcast, H&R Block, UCLA Market Position: Its popular Web applications and open-source projects keep the beleaguered company in the picture. Read more:
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