Top 10 Enterprise Cloud Apps and Services of 2011
20.05.12
For ReadWriteWeb's first list of top choices in enterprise cloud services, we took a cue from one of our winners and evaluated the social data stream, to see which services you talked about - and which ones got the favorable tweets, especially for customer service. Hosting companies aren't covered on this list, even if they're cloud host providers, unless they offer some form of value-add that makes their service more useful to a targeted class of customers.
Not every candidate for this list offers its own cloud platform; we considered services that are offered on others' cloud platforms. And we considered the platforms on which they're offered, too, if they presented a value-add that made them unique. Beta services were not eligible; we stuck with general availability only.
10. Xeround. This service, which premiered in late 2010 , quite easily (judging from customers' comments) deploys new or existing MySQL databases on cloud platforms such as Amazon EC2, Rackspace, and Heroku. Rather than just shoving off databases into the cloud space, Xeround manages storage on the back end with built-in scalability.
Source: ReadWriteWeb