Top 20 Cloud Companies 2014

The Silicon Review

Organizations in today’s world are struggling with several issues, be it managing their employee’s access to data, or adoption of cost reduction strategies, while maintaining optimum levels of security at the same time.

The Indian cloud industry has made several attempts to look out for solutions to ensure that these organizations meet statutory norms and compliance requirements and achieve profitable growth rates in coming years.

The time being perfect to recognize the efforts put in by the best among equals, the presents to you “20 Cloud Computing Companies founded and managed by Indians globally”, involved in addressing the needs of current enterprises which have the potential to be, or already are the market leaders.

In this issue srcloud20, we have moved beyond the stereotypical notions of cloud computing companies and brought fourth emerging trends. It is hoped that the global market platform will strive to grow further in order to accommodate the emerging trends and industries providing for new, innovative solutions and services, some of which are enlisted in the srcloud 20 listings, here under as follows:

Company	Management	Founding Year	Description
Ctrls DataCenters	Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder and CEO	2007	A provider of platform level services which includes data center infrastructure, storage, backup, hardware, OS layers, network and security layers.
Aditi Technologies	Pradeep Rathinam, CEO	1994	A provider of cloud platforms like Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services and SalesForce.com.
Sify Technologies	Raju Vegesna, Chairman & MD	1995	Sify provides Enterprise Services, comprised of Telecom services, Data Center services, Cloud and Managed services, Application services and Technology Integration services.
Bloomreach	Raj De Datta, CEO and Co-founder	2009	BloomReach accelerates the path to purchase – from acquisition through the onsite experience.
AppPoint	Venki Muthana, Founder & CEO	2005	A product company established with a vision to simplify and accelerate development and delivery of enterprise class business management solutions.
Cipher Cloud	Pravin Kothari, Founder & CEO	2010	Develops simple and powerful test and debug solutions to improve the quality of mobile applications and responsive websites for Android domain.
Ramco Systems	Virender Aggarwal, CEO	1989	A provider of next generation, end-to-end enterprise solutions that render complete transformation of the business in real time.
Plumsoft	Jay Sappidi, Founder & CEO	2007	Develops business applications across different technology platforms by some of the best minds to develop innovative cloud technology that is simple, robust and flexible.
NTT Innovation Institute	Srini Koushik, President & CEO	2013	A global leader in information and communications technology.
MSys Tech India Pvt. Ltd	Sanjay Sehgal , Founder and Chairman	2007	MSys is an global leader in cloud based products and services, innovator in offering IT services and domain specific automation software.
GupShup	Beerud Sheth, Co-Founder and CEO	2004	A leading messaging company with businesses that include Cloud Messaging (GupShup) and Mobile Messenger
Avhan Technologies	Anand Awasthi, CEO	2000	Avhan develops CLOUD ready Communications and Real Time Communications Platforms for Customer Experience Delivery.
Silver Cloud Solutions	Srinivasa Bharathy, Director	2011	A provider of enterprise class software products in various domains and has an excellent insight into Business-IT alignment and ‘right-fit’ IT solutioning for enterprises, mid-market companies and SMBs.
Batoi Systems Pvt. Ltd	Ashwini Kumar Rath, Founder Director & CEO	2010	A provider of cloud platform to create your own apps, subscribe to apps, store and manage data and streamline the processes online
Nanobi analytics	Mahesh Ramakrishnan, Founder and CEO	2012	A software product company, whose mission is to provide businesses with products and analytic solutions using modern technology, which will help them better manage their business, customers and other parts of their ecosystem.
Opportune Technologies	Dhwani Mehta, Director	2004	Opportune has extensive experience in automating HR process on Cloud using its web based Enterprise HRMS solution-‘OPTHRMS’
POS on Cloud	Sunny Dronawat, Co-Founder and CEO	2008	A cloud based Point of Sale, resides on third party servers accessed through the Internet using a browser, which is professionally maintained.
Manjrasoft	Rajkumar Buyya, Founder & CEO	2008	A provider of choice for application acceleration services and solutions over Cloud.
K2B Online	Venky Rao, Founder & CEO	2012	K2B online focuses on applying consumer social technologies to the business world and enables individuals to enrich their lifestyles and businesses to help engage and interact better with the customers.
Pcloudy	Dhananjay Ganjoo, CEO	2013	Develops simple and powerful test and debug solutions to improve the quality of mobile applications and responsive websites for Android domain.