20 Coolest Cloud Platform Vendors

Cloud computing platforms (affectionately called Platform-as-a-Service, or PaaS) facilitate and ease the deployment of applications into the cloud, limiting the cost and complexity by cutting the need to buy and manage hardware and software. As cloud computing continues to gather steam and more VARs and their clients are looking to design, develop, test, deploy and host apps in the cloud, a robust, flexible platform has become a must-have. As per ChannelWeb, these are the 20 coolest cloud computing platform vendors.

1. Amazon EC2
2. Appistry
3. AppScale
4. AT&T
5. Engine Yard
6. Enomaly
7. FlexiScale
8. GCloud3
9. Gizmox
10. GoGrid
11. Google
12. LongJump
13. Microsoft
14. OrangeScape
15. RackSpace
16. Salesforce.com
17. Terremark
18. Ubuntu
19. VMware, Cisco Systems And EMC
20. Verizon