Cloud Storage, Computing Leaders to Watch

Last month, Datamation took a look at a few of cloud computing's usual suspects, like Amazon, Google, Salesforce.com, and Microsoft. This time, there are a few surprising entrants and some startups driving the cloud-adoption push, including Rackspace, Eucalyptus and GoGrid.

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"10. ParaScale: Why they’re a leader today? I probably shouldn’t have put ParaScale on this list, but what good is a tech trend without some risk? ParaScale is going through internal upheavals and has failed to raise a Series B round of funding – this according to an undisclosed source affiliated with the company and backed by other recent published reports (see here.)

"That said, even if ParaScale bites the dust, it’s possible that another cloud vendor will snatch up this technology and showcase it in their cloud portfolio. As opposed to most of the other vendors calling themselves cloud storage providers, ParaScale does not provide a hosted storage service. Rather, their cloud storage solution is targeted to enterprises, which can then use that technology to create their own public or private clouds."

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