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October 2009

Perceptions of Cloud Service Providers

Who's Who and Where in the Clouds

A poll of the perceptions of software developers on the major players in the Cloud computing space.

Want to know who's going to be leading the pack in the world of cloud computing? If you're planning on developing in the cloud or deploying your apps to the cloud, it's critical to understand the likelihood of success with each vendor. A solid indicator comes from the perceptions of software developers - the very people who are using Cloud today and planning for it tomorrow. We asked developers what they think of the top competitors and they ranked them on completeness of solution, ability to execute, security, latency, reliability, scalability and vendor lock-in.

See how developers rate the top players including:

Amazon
AT&T
Google
IBM
Microsoft
HP
Rackspace

When planning your migration to the cloud use some real data from real developers to choose your vendors.

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