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20 Coolest Cloud Infrastructure Companies

The early years of the industrys shift to cloud were preoccupied by a debate between two competing modes for deploying that infrastructure. Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers like AWS argued there would be an inevitable and nearly total exodus of workloads to public cloud as enterprises realized the advantage of ditching their data centers. Old-guard stalwarts such as VMware countered private cloud would likely remain the preferred hosting model, as many enterprises would never surrender control of their crown jewels.

They were both wrong. AWS and VMware first illustrated that point when they struck a joint-development partnership. And in the past year, both providers have re-emphasized the pre-eminence of hybrid cloud with new offerings that further stretch into the other's domain.

Its clearly a hybrid world, and cloud infrastructure is now defined by technologies that can span the public-private divide. Here are 20 cloud infrastructure companies that are leading in that new world.

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