Seven new cloud companies to watch

12.09.2011
By now we're all familiar with the big names in the industry, such as Amazon, Rackspace and VMware. But there are also a whole host of cloud startups that are coming online to help you manage your cloud services provided by the big players. In this piece we'll profile seven of the top up-and-coming cloud companies that are helping customers do everything from keeping their cloud costs low to implementing their own private clouds to meeting and regulatory needs.

2010's IT COMPANIES TO WATCH:

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Citrusleaf

Focus: NoSQL database management system

Founded: 2009