The cloud is old enough, and Amazon Web Services mature enough at age seven, to make you wonder: Could market leader AWS be outflanked by a fresh architecture or a supplier with a more flexible method of provisioning user-designed servers?
So far, cloud vendors have defined services using their own templates, with a given amount of CPU, memory, and storage. Market leaders Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Rackspace each do it roughly the same way.
But younger companies are trying new architectures and more flexible provisioning methods. In the world of cloud computing, where names like Savvis, Terremark, CSC, and SoftLayer predominate, here's a six-pack of contenders to be the next big name in cloud computing. Here is the list of 6 worthy to watch Cloud start ups
