As we covered in our preview this month, Microsoft retained top slot in the rankings this month and while its recently announced commercial cloud revenues at a $6.3 billion run rate might not put it ahead of AWS in the IaaS space, it is still impressive, especially given the current growth rate. Amazon was the second highest ranked #CloudInfluence entity this month with its cloud business AWS in 4th.
Both Amazon and AWS had a massive boost in their #CloudInfluence scores this month following the much awaited disclosure of the first AWS financials, but even combining their #CloudInfluence scores as we did in the correlation chart in our preview did not quite equal Microsoft’s score, showing that Microsoft retails a clear overall lead.
The next few places in this month’s rankings were occupied by IBM, Google, Oracle, Apple and SAP – most of whom we covered in our preview. They were also featured in much of the cloud market coverage that followed the AWS disclosure. These articles also featured comments from analyst at firms like Gartner and IDC, thereby boosting their #CloudInfluence and propelling them into this month’s top ten as well.
VMWare [19] jumped to 10th in the rankings following impressive financial results and the announcement at the company’s annual Partner Exchange conference in San Francisco of plans to give MSPs access to the vCloud Air Network.
Picking up a new CTO from Google and opening a data centre in Frankfurt helped to propel DigitalOcean into 12th. Singapore Telecommunications acquisition of US -based cyber-security firm Trustwave pushed into 13th. The Chinese corporate bond market experience its second default this month after Internet company Cloud Live Technology Group Co. said it will miss payments.
Synergy Research may not have quite made it into the top ten, but were quick to revise their cloud market share analysis following the AWS announcement and were featured in a certain amount of coverage late in the month.
Other notable commentators were Ovum which reckons that by 2016 more than 80 percent of global enterprises will be using IaaS, primarily in private cloud computing, and Fitch which reaffirmed its top credit rating on Oracle, saying that it has and will continue to make significant investments, both organic and inorganic, to retain its long-term competitiveness relative to other cloud subscription providers. Interesting then that the more recent speculation about a potential bidder for Salesforce has centred on Oracle.
April Top 50 #CloudInfluence Organisations
April
Name
Website
Twitter
Movement since March
1
Microsoft
www.Microsoft.com
@Microsoft
2
Amazon
www.amazon.com
@amazon
3
IBM
www.ibm.com
@IBM
+ 2
4
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
www.aws.amazon.com
@AWScloud
+ 4
5
Google
www.google.com
@google
+ 5
6
Oracle
www.oracle.com
@Oracle
-2
7
Gartner
www.gartner.com
@Gartner_inc
8
Apple
www.apple.com
-5
9
SAP
www.SAP.com
@SAP
+ 3
10
IDC
www.idc.com
@IDC
+ 10
11
VMware
www.vmware.com
@VMware
+ 8
12
Google Drive
www.google.com/intl/en-GB/drive
@googledrive
13
DigitalOcean
www.do.co
@digitalocean
14
Singapore Telecommunications
www.info.singtel.com
@singtel
15
Cloud Live Technology
16
Intel
www.intel.com
@Intel
17
Synergy Research
www.srgresearch.com
@SRG_Research
18
Yahoo! News
www.news.yahoo.com
@YahooNews
+ 3
19
The Skyhigh Networks
www.skyhighnetworks.com
@SkyHighNetworks
20
EMC
www.emc.com
@EMCcorp
21
Huawei Technologies
www.huawei.com
@Huawei
22
Ovum
www.ovum.com
@OvumICT
23
China Chamber of Commerce
24
Ericsson
www.ericsson.com
@ericsson
25
Red Hat
www.redhat.com
@RedHatNews
-12
26
China Securities Regulatory Commission
www.csrc.gov.cn/pub/csrc_en
+ 5
27
Samsung
www.samsung.com/us
@SamsungTweets
28
Cisco
www.cisco.com
@Cisco
-22
29
Aquilent
www.aquilent.com
@Aquilent
30
Fitch Ratings
www.fitchratings.com
@FitchRatings
31
Ramco Systems
www.ramco.com
@RamcoSystems
32
Vertex Group
www.vertexgroup.com
@vertexgroup
33
Lagrange Systems
www.lagrangesystems.com
@LagrangeSystems
34
Dyn
www.dyn.com
@Dyn
35
Barclays
www.group.barclays.com
@Barclays
36
IBM Research
www.research.ibm.com
@IBMResearch
37
Google Play Store
www.play.google.com
@GooglePlay
38
Thales
www.thalesgroup.com/en
@thalesgroup
39
NBF Capital
www.nbf.ae/english
40
Alternative Technology Solutions inc.
www.alttechsolutions.com
@AltTechSolution
41
Rio Tinto
www.riotinto.com
@RioTinto
42
PerspecSys
www.perspecsys.com
@PerspecSys
43
NetComp Solutions
www.netcomp.com.au
@netcompsolution
44
Adallom Labs
www.adallom.com/adallom-labs
@Adallom
45
Cleversafe
www.cleversafe.com
@Cleversafe
46
Akamai Technologies
www.akamai.com
@Akamai
-40
47
Unidesk
www.unidesk.com
@UnideskCorp
48
Ellucian Company L P
www.ellucian.com
@EllucianInc
49
Amazon Echo
www.amazon.com/oc/echo
50
Nokia
www.company.nokia.com
@nokia
Obviously we will be following all the twists and turns in the cloud market with our #CloudInfluence rankings each month – not only following the key organisations, but also the key individuals as you will see in tomorrow’s April #CloudInfluence rankings for individuals.
NOTE: the Compare the Cloud #CloudInfluence league tables, are based on a broad big data analysis of all major global news, blogs, forums, and social media interaction over the past 90 days. The league tables provide a snapshot taken at a particular point of time of the respective influence of both organisations and individuals over the last quarter. Companies that were particularly active in the given period will feature more prominently.