Cloud Computing

BTC LOGIC RANKS: (?) CLOUD COMPANIES
Q2 2011

Executive Summary
BTC Logic is a multi-disciplinary team of experienced business, technology and creative professionals, working with technology companies looking to grow more rapidly, and with companies looking to build competitive advantage from technology disruptions. Two of the major technology disruptions now impacting enterprises are theadoption of Cloud Computing, and the expansion of services for the mobile enterprise. Cloud Computing offers a unique opportunity for enterprises to generate new revenue by getting new applications built and deployed more quickly, and scaling these applications with greater ease. Small businesses, governments, and enterprises are also harnessing the processing flexibility of the Cloud to reducecosts. However the Cloud Computing marketplace still has an ever increasing, confusing array of vendors each promoting its own solution, and a steady increase in the number of new Cloud product and services. The speed by which enterprises have been embracing Cloud has increased in 2011, but there still remains the urgent need to evaluate multiple vendors, valid fears about Cloud management, security,privacy, data integrity and governance, and a widely held belief with buisness decision makers that Cloud Computing is strictly an IT opportunity rather than a key business lever. Also, vendors who have mostly focused on the Software as a Service component of the Cloud, now increasingly have to address the need for Cloud management, privacy, multi-landlord option, and the whole related issue oftrust services in the Cloud. This updated Rankings report is intended to provide a working framework for looking at the Cloud Computing space beyond the traditional three tier split, to give an independent summary of the leading vendors in each of the key Cloud segments, and to present a shortlist of the top vendors in each segment that enterprises should consider as they pursue their Cloudinitiatives. It tries to give some structure and nuance to companies offering Cloud products, and go beyond alphabetical Cloud company listings, or the search engine respnse to “Cloud Computing.” One of the major trends in 2011 (?) has been a broader recognition that enterprises will not significantly move applications and data into the Cloud until issues related to security, privacy, and data location(trust services) are fully resolved. Another strong trend is that enterprises want to retain more control over governance and

Contents Executive Summary Purpose of Report Cloud Computing Trends Top Ten Company Rankings
Cloud Infrastructure . Cloud Foundation . . Network Services . . Cloud Platform . . . Cloud Applications . Cloud Security. . . . Cloud Management . Cloud Up and Comers . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 . 11 .12 .13 .14 .16 .17 .19

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have the ability to oversee applications and data running in a broad hybrid Cloud (in-house, private, and public Clouds from more than one infrastructure or platform provider). To recognizethese trends, BTC Logic is staying with its expanded Cloud classification that now includes the Cloud Security and Cloud Management segments, providing seven major segments: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Cloud Foundation Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Network Services Cloud Platform Cloud Applications (further divided into two sub-segments) Cloud Security Cloud Management - Sanctioning (new) Cloud Management- Production Control (new)

Another major trend in 2011 has been the very visible investment and commitment in Cloud Computing by major technology players and their move up to positions that look increasingly dominant going forward. From our perspective, the most important vendors for enterprise customers in 2011 can now be divided into three groups (where each company is a top 5 contender in...