Now that we have discussed cloud services and properties, let us take a glance on the major 10 cloud vendors in the world:
- Google Cloud Platform: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the cloud platform by Google. It uses the resources such as computers, hard disks, virtual machines, NoSQL databases, block storages, and so on located at Google data centers.
- Amazon Web Services: Then we have AWS. It is one of the safest, secure, and versatile cloud platforms that provides cloud services ranging from infrastructure services such as database storage, computing power, to networking. AWS provides you a wide variety of services not offered by any other cloud vendor - coming early in market has its own perks and downfalls.
- Microsoft Azure: Then we can Microsoft Azure, as name suggest it is by Microsoft. Microsoft Azure is also one of the front runners in grabbing market share. Azure has the potential to deploy and design applications with a huge network worldwide.
- Adobe: Adobe is often known for products such as Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Flash. But it also offers many products that provide cloud services. A few among them are Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Cloud, and Adobe Document Cloud.
- VMware: VMware as we all know is a universal leader in virtualization. VMware also holds its space in cloud infrastructure to a better extent. Major features of VMware's cloud computing includes reduction in the IT intricacy, lowering expenses, and provides flexible, agile services.
- IBM Cloud: IBM is one of the other front runners in providing IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. With IBM Cloud you can have the option to select and unite your desired tools, data models, and delivery models along with designing/creating your applications.
- Rackspace: Rackspace Cloud just like other cloud vendors offers many services such as hosting websites or web applications. They also provide services in uploading files in cloud, block storage, backup on cloud, databases, cloud servers, and many more.
- Red Hat: Open Cloud technology used by IT organizations is part of Red Hat cloud solutions. Agile and flexible solutions are delivered by RedHat. By modernizing the apps, updating and managing from a single place we can use Red Hat Cloud to integrate all the desired parts into a single solution.
- Salesforce: Salesforce Cloud Computing is another cloud vendor in the market. The major services that Salesforce provide are in the domain of CRM, ERP, customer service, and sales.
- Oracle Cloud: SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS - all deployment types are available with Oracle Cloud. The differentiation is Oracle Cloud is transforming customer's business quickly and reducing IT complexity. It is the speciality of Oracle Cloud.
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Atlantic.net, GoDaddy, 1 & 1, Digital Ocean, Cloud Sigma, and Navisite are a few other cloud service vendors in the market.
Now that we understood major aspects of cloud analytics let's understand the GCP infrastructure by watching below video.
