My latest story for Network World — 10 Hot Hybrid Cloud Startups to Watch — is out. I selected the 10 startups in the story based on a combination of funding, the experience of their leadership team, market opportunity, value proposition, product-market fit, and named customers. (You can read more about my selection methodology here.)
As the cloud matures, many businesses are finding that not every application belongs in public clouds. Due to regulatory issues, security risks, data ownership concerns, and fears of cloud lock-in, many applications are stubbornly rooted in on-premises architectures.
The startups in this roundup understand that, and rather than trying to sweet talk enterprises into forklift upgrades, these startups are willing to work under hybrid-cloud constraints.
The startups featured in this roundup federate data, making it available from any cloud to any application; provide application virtualization software, which enables enterprises to move workloads to and from various clouds at will; provide cloud file systems that optimize and mobilize data, and much more.
These 10 startups are redefining what the hybrid cloud is, enabling enterprises to quickly and cost-effectively adopt new data-intensive technologies such as IoT, AI, Big Data, machine learning and more.
Check out in-depth profiles of the 10 Hot Startups over at Network World: 10 Hot Hybrid Cloud Startups to Watch.
