Amazon and IBM are "cloud champions" as per the new report however Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Red Hat and VMware are as well amongst the list of heavyweights in the emerging cloud computing field. Amazon cloud utilizes FedEx in its place of Internet to dispatch data.

All tech vendors are acceptance cloud. Yet those that don't offer public cloud services are fighting to become apex builders of infrastructures to support rising cloud networks.

A new quarterly report from BTC Logic, and IT consulting corporation efforts to rank apex cloud players, and places them into seven broad categories cloud basics, infrastructure, network services, platforms, applications, security and management.

BTC Logic claims Amazon and IBM are "cloud champions" as they rank in apex five in four of the seven categories. The corporation Microsoft, Google, Red Hat, Salesforce, Symantec, VMware, Citrix, EMC, Oracle, Level 3 and Cisco are considered "cloud heavyweights," one level beneath Amazon and IBM, as they rank extremely in fewer categories. A third group of corporations is listed just as "cloud candidates," and this group contains AT&T, Aylus Networks, Rack space and SAP's Business Objects division.

Neither Microsoft nor Google rank first in any of seven cloud class, but Google is second following Salesforce in cloud applications and Microsoft is second after VMware in cloud foundations. Cloud foundations refer to tools and software that construct it probable to build cloud infrastructure.