March 02, 2012
Google Holds Top Spot in Cloud Service Provider Industry
By
Erin Harrison ,
Executive Editor, Cloud Computing Google is being touted as the most prominent service provider in the cloud – the technology company recently topped the list of service providers in the Cloud & Technology Transformation Alliance’s cloud channel survey.
In today’s cloud computing environment, the service provider segment is a mix of telecom carriers, hosting companies, application and processing services and even application resellers, Channelnomics blogger Larry Walsh recently pointed out.
“When it comes to partnership in this confusing and evolving segment, channel partners say Google leads the pack with its ability to host applications, provide cloud-based services and partnership in applications,” Walsh said in a recent blog post.
Of the 229 solution providers, telephony agents and managed service providers surveyed, in the CTTA’s 2012 State of Cloud Channel survey, Google ranked at the top – 26 percent choose Google as the best carrier/hosting company to partner with in the channel.
Google, to this blogger’s surprise, is an unlikely choice for this segment since the company does not directly provide transport or hosting services... Read More
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