How many cloud computing companies can you name offhand? Five? Ten? Maybe even twenty? Do you ever stop to think about how saturated the cloud computing industry has become? In the US, there are well over 100 companies delivering some type of cloud services, be it in the form of storage, PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, or a mix of these offerings. This market is one of the most competitive new technology industries in the world right now, and with projections for the global cloud industry ranging anywhere from $97B (Forrester Cloud Forecast) to $176.8B (Gartner Cloud Forecast) by 2015, everyone wants a piece of that pie.
In Europe however, the adoption of cloud computing has been happening at slower rate.Right now, the cloud industry hasn't fully matured, and a lot of European-based cloud service providers are looking for ways to break into the US. Currently, there is more potential for revenue and a larger customer base in the US.Many cloud service providers such as CloudSigma, based in Switzerland, and ProfitBricks, based in Germany, are two companies that have decided to take the risk and venture into the US market.
CloudSigma secured a "significant round of funding from angel investors," according to a press release from December 12, 2011. A large portion of this capital will go towards expanding its US offerings with a data center located on the east coast. Currently, CloudSigma has servers located in Zurich and Las Vegas. The company has been successful in its short life as a pure cloud infrastructure as a service provider. Founded in 2009, by 2010 they were already chosen as one of the top 25 European cloud companies. CloudSigma also prides itself in being one of the leading "green" cloud computing companies, trying to reduce the impact of computing on the environment as much as possible. CloudSigma also stands out as being one of the first providers to offer SSD, or Solid State Drive, storage solutions for their public cloud IaaS environment. If they can leverage these differentiating factorseffectively, there is a strong possibility they could become successful in the US.
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