In the age of web hyperconnectivity, cloud computing is bigger than ever. Whether of the public, private or hybrid variety, clouds support an array of traditionally hardware-based functions, including software, infrastructure and what’s known as FaaS — functions-as-a-service, aka serverless computing.
Cloud Companies to Know
- Dropbox
- Intel
- Cisco Meraki
- Oracle
- Salesforce
- Workday
As a result, companies and organizations have more flexibility to scale. It’s easier and faster to recover lost or corrupted data, hardware expenses are greatly diminished, security measures are more robust, energy use and carbon footprints diminish — and the list goes on.
Here are some cloud companies that provide crucial services for users of all types and sizes.
Cloud Computing Companies to Know
Location: Remote, United States
FluentStream offers small businesses live communication systems and cloud-based software that allows teams to access their conversations on any device connected to the internet. It provides its clients with conference calls, post-call surveys, emergency routing, insight reporting and call recording storage, which keeps track of customer interactions and all deals. The company aims to power, manage and enhance communications in a simple, unified way.
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Duo Security is a cloud security company that makes software for protecting user and client information in the cloud and on the web. Using a two-factor authentication system that requires either a phone call or a text verification code, its software verifies user identity prior to allowing access. This process deters cybercrime, protecting against hacking and offering flexibility for users to access their accounts on mobile or desktop devices.
Location: San Francisco, California
Cisco Meraki provides cloud-based IT solutions for wireless networks. The company offers cloud products that range from wireless LAN systems to enhanced security and SD-WAN technologies. Meraki also specializes in enhanced IoT, with secure smart cameras and mobile management devices. MIT, Audi and Make-A-Wish have been among the brands to trust Meraki with their cloud-based networks.
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Acquia’s enterprise solutions include its Acquia Cloud Platform, which provides development tools, hosting services and enterprise-grade security. There’s also the Acquia Site Factory, which lets marketing teams manage multiple sites on a single dashboard.
Location: Yardley, Pennsylvania
Ingage offers cloud-based presentation software that makes it easy to distribute up-to-date presentations to local teams, customers or to teams across locations. Its solutions include interactive content that can be used for either virtual or in-person sales pitches. The company says that its client companies use its platform to produce thousands of presentations every month.
Location: Fully Remote
Eastwall is a cloud computing company that specializes in the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, offering solutions focused on cloud architecture, DevOps acceleration, compliance and security and app modernization. Working in an advisory capacity, it focuses solely on Azure, leveraging its team members’ expertise on nuanced details of the platform to help clients meet their IT needs.
Location: Austin, Texas
SailPoint offers cloud-based identity and access management solutions that help companies control user access to streamline compliance and reduce fraud. The company’s products help IT teams automate tasks and let employees securely access the tools they need to work remotely. Its customers have included Toyota and T-Mobile.
Location: Waltham, Massachusetts
Dynatrace offers continuous runtime application security, intelligent automation from data and a unified platform. It aims to ensure flawless digital experiences, deliver software more safely and efficiently and automate modern cloud operations. The company uses AIOps on a large scale to turn data into actions.
Location: Fully Remote
VelocityEHS makes cloud-based software for EHS management and compliance. EHS, which considers and protects worker and worksite safety, health and environmental standards, is an area where client companies can fine tune their operations through tools like job safety analysis, operational risk assessments and ergonomics initiatives. The software also manages and facilitates on-site processes like safety meetings, incident responses, training and orientations.
Location: Denver, Colorado
Crusoe Energy Systems makes technology to mitigate the incidence and impact of natural gas flaring, which happens when natural gas is burned as part of the process of extracting oil from the earth. Natural gas flaring releases carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere. By converting natural gas from energy operations into power for high-energy-demand cloud computing processes like data lakes and cryptocurrency mining, Crusoe takes these wasted and stranded energy resources and repurposes them, offering them through cloud products for AI and other cloud applications.
Location: Schaumburg, Illinois
Bectran offers an all-in-one SaaS platform that aims to help finance professionals enhance their efficiency to businesses of all sizes. It aims to help its client companies improve their accuracy and gain more insights. The company’s solutions handle credit processes, accounts receivable and collections.
Location: Santa Clara, California
Computer chip giant Intel invested in software designed to improve cloud-based computing. Its platform lets users build hybrid, private and public clouds that drive application innovation, assist IT developers and optimize workloads.
Location: Fully Remote
Cybersecurity company Red Canary equips client organizations with 24/7 threat detection and response capabilities to secure their multicloud environments, offering solutions that protect customers whether they use Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud. Since its 2013 founding, Red Canary has served more than 4,000 security teams.
Location: San Francisco, California
A provider of enterprise cloud solutions, Salesforce offers a variety of products. They include the access- and support-centric Service Cloud and the marketing- and web personalization-oriented Marketing Cloud as well as Commerce Cloud, all of which aim to enhance business-customer relationships.
Location: Austin, Texas
Sonar is a company focused on clean code software solutions for developers. The platform, SonarCloud, can organically restore existing code, give automated feedback and set team remediation standards for coding flaws. Additionally, SonarCloud can be integrated with DevOps platforms and CI/CD workflows.
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Tufin makes cloud software for security policy automation, which is used by cybersecurity teams managing enterprise networks. Through firewall management, network segmentation, compliance automation and risk assessment, the company shores up most potential areas of vulnerability in a client’s network, allowing them to use cloud processes and infrastructures without fear of data breaches or cybercrime.
Location: Hingham, Massachusetts
OneView Commerce offers tools to help businesses extend and scale the point-of-sale process to any place along the customer’s buying journey. It offers an API-first cloud architecture that offers ready-to-use SaaS products that can function without direct user interaction. OneView also allows retailers to access commerce microservices that work to help them deliver meaningful retail experiences.
Location: Chicago, Illinois
LogicGate offers a user-friendly Saas platform called Risk Cloud that aims to help businesses and organizations ensure regulatory compliance, streamline related processes and manage risk. The company was founded in 2015 and has hybrid and remote workplaces in Chicago and the United Kingdom.
Location: Fully Remote
Dropbox is a cloud-based platform for sharing, collaboration and storage. It’s available via a variety of devices from any connected location. The company’s technology partners that can be integrated into workflows include Microsoft Office, Slack, Adobe, Zoom and Canva.
Location: New York, New York
Spotnana is a travel tech company that uses cloud computing to create a novel Travel-as-a-Service infrastructure for corporate travel. Using a single platform to link client companies, travel management companies and travel tech providers, the Spotnana desktop and mobile app allows travelers and travel agents to access the same content and negotiated rates in real time.
Location: Merelbeke, Belgium
Lansweeper offers a single source cloud product that can connect several geographically distributed office locations and help its clients gain insight into the IT landscape. The IT asset management platform connects IT inventory data to external solutions and technologies. The company aims to help businesses find assets across their networks and devices.
Location: New York, New York
Cockroach Labs distributes a cloud-native SQL database. The database, CockroachDB, has flexible scalability, simple SQL, data partitioning and high availability capabilities to ensure developers can build apps that can survive anything. The company also provides training guides for all-level developers to learn various skills and topics within the industry.
Location: Bellevue, Washington
Clean Power Research supports the clean energy landscape by building software solutions that include tools to support efficient solar power plant operations and manage building electrification. The company has the capability to power millions of homes across over 200 entities with 80 utility providers across the solar industry.
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Wasabi Technologies provides cloud storage solutions for organizations in industries like life sciences and entertainment. The company says its technology saves its customers money and offers faster data uploads and downloads in comparison to competitors. For example, the Wasabi Surveillance Cloud product is designed to be simple to install and allows businesses to securely extend the storage capacity of video surveillance systems.
Location: Austin, Texas
Oracle provides many products and services — among them a cloud platform (hybrid, private or public) that lets users run both Oracle and non-Oracle workloads, connect third-party apps and enjoy security that halts unsanctioned apps and thwarts cyberattacks. The Oracle Autonomous Database aims to eliminate complexity, human error and manual management.
Location: Oakland, California
Fivetran automates data integration, from source to destination, to save data analysts time and resources. The company’s platform comes with data-centric features including pre-built connectors, ready-to query schemas, SQL-based transformations and incremental batch updates. These tools help cloud-based technologies efficiently capture and manage massive amounts of data. DocuSign, Square, Optimizely and Kiva have used Fivetran to meet their data needs.
Location: Fully Remote
Enterprise DB (EDB) is an open-sourced data platform for businesses looking to optimize PostgreSQL. Whether it's training, managing Postgres in the cloud, transitioning from Oracle or remote DBA management, the company strives to be a complete supporter of businesses using Postgres. Often businesses can receive localized insights too, enabling reduction costs in solutions and database spending.
Location: Centennial, Colorado
Arrow Electronics is a manufacturer of electronic components that are used for computing and networking devices, audiovisual tools and other tech products, including a wide range of cloud-access products like Wi-Fi-to-cloud bridges. Arrow components also power many wireless LAN devices. Users, who increasingly rely on cloud operations to power personal and commercial activities, rely on these components to keep cloud access systems running smoothly.
Location: Richmond, Virginia
PwC, once known as PricewaterhouseCoopers, is the parent company of a network of professional services companies that offer consulting services, board governance, business model modernization and other advisory services. Its Cloud & Digital team, a niche within its consulting arm, advises clients on cloud tech solutions for their business processes, including industry-specific cloud integrations.
Location: Roseland, New Jersey
CoreWeave, which started out as an Ethereum mining company, offers a general-purpose public cloud computing platform that is accelerated by GPUs, or graphics processing units, which are electronic circuits that manipulate memory to increase the speed at which images are processed. It operates virtual servers, data storage centers, networking and other cloud-powered data services.
Location: Palo Alto, California
VMWare’s cloud computing services let companies do a variety of things, such as run, manage, connect and protect their applications on any cloud. They can also choose the best type of cloud for their needs and deploy a single operational and security model across clouds (both public and private).
Location: San Diego, California
Altium provides its 365 cloud solution, an open electronics hardware development platform with a focus on collaboration. This solution enables stakeholders to streamline designs, connect their teams and enhance visibility. It was created to cover the entire process of design and development.
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Nasuni sells file data services under a SaaS model, allowing clients to pay for only the data they actually use. The Nasuni file data platform is cloud-native and places no — as in zero — limits on how big a file is or how often it’s transferred. Clients use Nasuni’s services for media ranging from design files and software builds to surveillance video and 3D models.
Location: Fully Remote
Mission is an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner offering cloud management and cloud consulting services. The company's Mission Control cloud services platform provides businesses with visibility into their cloud environments. It also has scorecards, recommendations, support options and resources.
Location: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Own ensures organizations are protected from data loss via a cloud protection platform that backs up key Salesforce and AWS data. The company’s products help defend organizations against the top causes of data loss, including human error, bad code, integration error, migration error and malicious attacks. Own uses data archiving, recovery and sandbox seeding capabilities to streamline operations and create stress-free workflows for all users.
Location: Santa Clara, California
ServiceNow’s enterprise cloud computing solutions let businesses work across teams, silos and systems by digitally automating tasks and workflows. Via its ServiceNow platform, the company provides workflow automation, data benchmarking, encryption and more.
Location: Austin, Texas
Security company AlertMedia helps businesses identify and address threats to their employees and business. Its team of meteorologists and intelligence analysts provide round-the-clock information and insights to help organizations of all sizes identify, respond to and recover from critical incidents. AlertMedia’s services include threat detection, emergency communication and travel risk management solutions.
Location: Redwood City, California
Box offers online file sharing and cloud content management that lets companies securely manage and share enterprise content (eg., sales data and medical records) from any place or device. Benefits include the automation of business processes and the implementation of data protection measures.
Location: Austin, Texas
Hypori is an SaaS for businesses and federal agencies that provides virtual mobility technology. Any data utilized by its customers is separated to alleviate security risks. The data is stored on a virtual workspace, Hypori Halo, instead of any devices. For Hypori customers, this means they are free from liability while the privacy for end-users is still protected.
Location: Draper, Utah
Pluralsight offers an education platform with a library of learning pathways and library courses to teach businesses and individual users tech skills. It supports professional development across companies that include FedEx, Ford and Adobe. The company’s content is authored by over 1,500 experts.
Location: New York, New York
Datadog’s observability and security platform keeps cloud applications humming along safely by automating infrastructure and performance monitoring as well as managing logs and users. By providing real-time observability, the software supports digital migrations and transformations while enabling operations, security and collaboration for clients across industries.
Location: Fully Remote
Restaurant365 makes a cloud-based platform that more than 40,000 restaurants use to efficiently manage their business operations. Its products cover accounting, workforce management solutions, back office responsibilities like inventory management and forecasting and data insights for strategic decision making.
Location: Louisville, Colorado
JumpCloud ensures employees and users throughout an organization have access to the devices, applications, files and networks they need through a comprehensive cloud directory platform. It also keeps those who are not authorized from accessing sensitive data. The platform includes single sign-on, user lifecycle management, multi-factor authentication, cross-platform device management and API integration capabilities, so organizations can integrate new services and scale securely.
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Knowledge professionals use the iManage Cloud to find insights and knowledge in their particular industries. The company offers work product management solutions used in the legal, accounting and financial industries. Its cloud-based software is used by over a million professionals in 65 countries, allowing them to collaborate and be productive from anywhere, on any device.
Location: San Jose, California
The Nutanix Cloud Platform helps companies improve their IT strategy and results with built-in machine intelligence, automation and analytics, seamless migration capabilities and a security-first design. It also provides a multi-cloud optimization service called Cost Governance.
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Founded in 1996, Strata Decision Technology’s tools empower organizations to make better informed financial decisions. The fintech company offers cloud-based financial planning, decision support and performance analytics for healthcare, financial institutions and other industries. Its StrataJazz platform simplifies planning, budgeting, forecasting and managing operational and capital spending.
Location: Fully Remote
Consensus Cloud Solutions describes itself as “a trusted global source for the transformation, enhancement and secure exchange of digital information.” The company’s products and solutions have uses for the healthcare, finance, insurance, real estate and manufacturing industries. For example, the Consensus Unite platform has features that include digital cloud faxing, on-demand patient data retrieval and HIPAA-compliant secure messaging for healthcare data interoperability.
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Supernova Technology offers securities-based lending with its modular, cloud-based platform designed by its team of technology and finance experts. It provides customizable risk management dashboards and a client portal with 24/7 access to account status information. The company aims to meet the needs of technology providers, bank registered investment advisors and broker dealers.
Location: Munich, Germany
Commercetools is a cloud software company that operates a platform for e-commerce clients. The platform, which is cloud-native and tech-agnostic, is designed to allow client companies to fully customize digital sales and marketing assets like digital storefronts. Customization and malleability are key values of the platform’s architecture, so that B2B, B2C and D2C client companies can adjust their commerce assets in real time as their needs change.
Location: San Francisco, California
Twilio’s Customer Engagement Platform lets developers quickly build, tweak and deliver new customer experiences. It comes with an intuitive drag-and-drop visual editor and a single interface for multiple channels, including SMS, phone, in-app chat, email and messaging apps.
Location: Pleasanton, California
Workday’s enterprise management cloud brings finance, human resources, planning and analytics tools together in a single suite. Companies can use Workday to automate accounting functions, shorten procurement cycle time or measure employees’ sense of belonging.
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Jobba Trade Technologies offers cloud-based tools designed to drive efficiency for roofing businesses. Its portfolio includes BidPad, an app for managing commercial and residential roofing deals that can be accessed through a computer or mobile device, and FCS Roofing Software, a system for managing all aspects of a commercial roofing business.
Location: San Mateo, California
Verkada provides a cloud-hosted security system with a software-first approach, ensuring buildings and the people within them remain safe in the wake of complex threats. The company’s systems include a variety of advanced security cameras, sensors placed throughout a location and an access control system that can analyze and secure door activity. Features are all controllable through the web-based Command platform accessible from any browser.
Location: Fully Remote
Smartling makes cloud-based tools for digital content translation. Offered through both a subscription SaaS model and a managed service model, services include dubbing, captioning, voiceovers, transcription, subtitling and narration using machine learning and AI tools. Geared toward businesses that generate content for global markets, the company relies on tools including the Watson Language Translator, which can translate large data sets into over 50 languages.
Location: Chicago, Illinois
In its quest to improve productivity and governance, iManage developed an array of work product management solutions. They include iManage Work 10, iManage Drive and iManage Share.
Location: Ames, Iowa
Workiva’s cloud-based platform comes with proprietary word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications that help companies improve the collecting, reporting and analysis of their data. It also simplifies the creation of complex reports and helps users address compliance requirements.
Location: San Francisco, California
Render works as a unified cloud for developers. The platform allows startups to facilitate all their apps, sites and other services in one location. The company also offers the flexibility expected from traditional cloud providers and minimizes maintenance for developers. Render boasts features like autoscaling, preview environments, private networking and infrastructure as code.
