15 Top Cloud Computing Service Provider Companies.

Earlier we used to store our data in hard drives on a computer. Cloud Computing services have replaced such hard drive technology. Cloud Computing service is nothing but providing the services like Storage, Databases, Servers, networking, software’s etc through the Internet.

Few Companies offer such computing services, hence named as “Cloud Computing Providers/ Companies”. They charge its users for utilizing such services and the charges are based on their usage of services.

In our daily routine we use this cloud service without our notice like web-based email service, watching movies through the internet, editing documents, storing pictures etc uses cloud computing on the back-end.

Using such cloud technology we can design and create new applications, store and recover data, hosting the websites etc.

Generally, cloud computing services are categorized into three types.


1) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): This service provides the infrastructure like Servers, Operating Systems, Virtual Machines, Networks, and Storage etc on rent basis.

Eg: Amazon Web Service, Microsoft Azure

2) Platform as a Service (PaaS): This service is used in developing, testing and maintaining of software. PaaS is same as IaaS but also provides the additional tools like DBMS, BI services etc.

Eg: Apprenda, Red Hat OpenShift

3) Software as a Service (SaaS): This service makes the users connect to the applications through Internet on a subscription basis.
Eg: Google Applications, Salesforce

Below mentioned are the top Cloud Computing Companies:

Amazon Web Services: 
What started as an experiment to use idle capacity has grown into the largest, most comprehensive cloud offering in the world. Its offerings range from compute, network, storage, and backup to software like DevOps and database. AWS is clearly and inarguably the 500-pound gorilla in the cloud computing sector – and offers new cloud tools constantly. Its most recent additions are IoT analytics and support for blockchain.

Microsoft Azure: Rather than fearing the new paradigm like it did with the Internet in the 1990s, Microsoft has embraced the cloud with a full on-demand service, Azure, and put two of its biggest cash cows – Office and SQL Server – in Azure for anyone to use. Helping Azure grow: the fact that Microsoft has a deep enterprise legacy. But it also embraces the new. It recently added DevOps support for Kubernetes containers.

Google Cloud Platform:  Despite its dominance – and its great ambition for the cloud – Google is running third in the race for cloud market share. For a while it billed itself as the place to build cloud apps using App Engine, but that didn't work. So it announced a new strategy to "meet you where you are," as Eric Schmidt put it, and hired VMware founder Diane Greene to head the cloud business. Google is very strong in AI and Machine Learning, two very hot areas for the years ahead. One of its chief advantages is price: GCP is between 40 percent and 50 percent cheaper for identical services on AWS and Azure.

Adobe: Long the standard for artistic and creative people, Adobe has shifted many of its products that were installed on PCs to the cloud in the form of SaaS offerings. It offers three services, the Creative Cloud, the Marketing Cloud and the Document Cloud.

VMware: The vCloud Air public cloud service offers three services: data center extension, disaster recovery, and data center replacement. VMware’s leadership in datacenter virtualization provides it with a high profile among enterprise customers. It recently struck deals with Amazon to connect VMware customers to AWS.

IBM Cloud: IBM has combined all of its cloud offerings, like Watson, BlueMix and SoftLayer, into a single brand called IBM cloud that offers more than 170 services across SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and other cloud services. That includes compute, network, storage, management, security, analytics, mobile, developer, IoT, blockchain and migration.


Rackspace:  The managed service provider has partnered with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure to offer managed services for both on top of its own managed cloud offering. Rackspace also offers web application hosting or PaaS, cloud storage, virtual private server, load balancers, databases, backup, and monitoring.

Red Hat: Its Cloud Infrastructure offers an open, private IaaS cloud based on OpenStack, while Cloud Suite offers container-based app development. Its OpenShift PaaS gives developers tools to quickly build, host and scale applications in cloud environments.

Salesforce: The granddaddy of SaaS, the company has grown well beyond its initial offering of on-demand CRM to offer PaaS through its Force.com offering, an app builder called Site.com and a helpdesk system called Desk.com

Oracle Cloud: The on-premises software giant has heavily leveraged its offerings into SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings, including middleware, database, Java, security and identity-management services that enable integrating legacy systems with cloud systems. It also offers bare metal cloud offerings, which allow Oracle customers to move their on-premises

SAP: SAP's cloud offering is built around its HANA in-memory technology providing SaaS for line of business apps, PaaS for a cloud platform, and IaaS for an on-demand infrastructure. All services are available from public, hybrid, and private clouds.

Verizon Cloud: Verizon tried to get into the enterprise cloud market after the acquisition of Terremark but is unloading that business now to work on helping customers move legacy services to other clouds, like Amazon and Microsoft. It is also looking to be the connection provider between cloud services and data centers.

	Abiquo's Calling itself the "Enterprise Cloud Management software company," Abiquo's software lets organizations use business policy to manage their entire computing infrastructure comprising unlimited physical and cloud resources through a single pane of glass, whether those clouds are private, public or hybrid.
	AccelOps forges into integrated data center and cloud services monitoring with software delivered as a virtual appliance or SaaS. It cross-correlates and manages diverse operational on-premise, off-premise and cloud environments for alerting, analysis and reporting.
	Akamai has big plans in the cloud, whether they be security, storage or a host of other capabilities. Its cloud optimization offerings improve performance, increase availability, and boost security of applications and data delivered over the cloud.
	Managing application architectures becomes increasingly more important in cloud environments. AppDynamics offers app management for new application architectures including the cloud or in the data center, to monitor, troubleshoot, diagnose and scale production applications.
	Apprenda has created a new category of cloud middleware with its SaaSGrid next-generation application server that was built specifically to solve the architecture, business and operational complexities of delivering SaaS in the cloud and delivering business-critical applications on the Web.
	CloudOptix has made a name for itself with its cloud virtualization software called MeghaWare that lets users launch multi-vendor public and private clouds and connect and unify them into a custom hybrid cloud solution to get the most bang for the buck.
	Cloud9 Analytics simple yet powerful application to help sales managers forecast sales more accurately, coach sales staff behavior, run effective weekly sales meetings, and ultimately increase your win rates. Cloud9 brings real-time visiblity to sales forecasts.
	CloudSwitch wants to help move apps to the cloud. Its software appliance acts as a gateway to the cloud and lets companies run apps in the right environment securely and simply without changes while keeping applications integrated with data center tools and policies.
	CloudTran makes transaction management software for the cloud and makes it possible to run mission-critical OLTP apps in public, private and hybrid clouds by adding ACID transactions to data grids and distributed persistent data stores.
	Cumulux makes products and services that help enterprises strategize, develop and operationalize cloud computing applications and does so on platforms like Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon EC2 and Force.com. With its breadth of SaaS offerings, Cumulux vows to deliver business value in the cloud.
	Eloqua automates the science of marketing – campaign execution, testing, measurement, prospect profiling, and lead nurturing – allowing marketers to acquire customers, drive revenue and do what they do best: develop strong brands, build creative campaigns, and deliver compelling content.
	FinancialForce is a software as a service accounting system and innovative financial management system that takes a fresh approach to a traditional business function. The application was develoed with Force.com and delivers tight integration with Salesforce.com CRM.
	Intacct also delivers a SaaS acccounting system which closely integrates with Salesforce.com, and makes finance more productive with revenue management, project accounting, order and billing management, financial consolidation and financial reporting software.
	Marketo combines everything you need to manage demand generation campaigns and acquire sales-ready leads – including email marketing, lead nurturing and lead scoring – with analytics to measure marketing ROI and forecast marketing's impact on revenue.
	NetSuite delivers software as a service (SaaS) enterprise-wide business applications, including full-featured financials and accounting, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), inventory, and e-commerce software—all in a fully integration application.
	Oracle's on demand CRM software allows customers flexibility in how to deploy tehir CRM software based on their specific needs and budget requirements. Hosted and Managed Applications and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deployment models are all available.
	Pardot Marketing Automation is an on-demand solution that can show your sales team exactly where to spend its time in order to maximize ROI. Advanced micro-level web analytics allows Pardot to capture all relevant prospect activities, both on and off your site, and help determine who is showing the most buying signals.
	Salesforce . com has become the poster child of software as a service Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software solutions. Now the technology pioneer continues a push into the platform as a service (PaaS) market with its Force.com application platform.
	Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) giant SAP is assertively pushing into the software as a service CRM and ERP markets with its Business ByDesign solution. The on-demand ERP system is showing strong global adoption from both customers and partners.