| | September 20134CIOReviewEditorialFor any business to be a great success there needs to be a great chemistry among the founders of the companies. Apple's founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are some of the role models for us. However, I have observed several startup founders who have great energy and ideas in the initial days, but end up failing due to the lack of chemistry among the founders and disagreements in their entrepreneurial journey. Not many, seem to be able to handle the pressures that come from collaborating to build a successful company over the long haul. The necessary elements for a long standing professional business partnership are complete trust and an enduring friendship that can weather the pressures inherent to building an organization from the ground up. This issue, we have the true story of such enduring friendship between Rodney Rogers and Kevin Reid of Virtustream and how the bond has helped in building successful business for the last 25 years, including their latest venture, Virtustream, a leading provider of enterprise class cloud computing solutions for Enterprises, Governments and Service Providers. Today they are demystifying the technology and delivering an enterprise class cloud solution with the security, high performance, high availability and application level SLA needed to meet the complex IT requirement of today's modern enterprise.As Cloud Computing witnesses, a whopping growth, it has increased interest as well as caution for CIOs trying to determine where, when and if cloud services can provide valuable outcomes for their businesses. The market also expects scalability, cost-effi ciency and pay-per-use pricing models from cloud services solutions. Moreover, CIOs are in a dire need for such cloud vendors who have the passion and energy like Rodney & Kevin. Realizing the need, we present to you `20 Most Promising Cloud Computing Companies'. These organizations are helping enterprises move to the cloud and are developing products and services to make this move seamless. These companies have a lot of momentum and will rise above the rest. A distinguished panel comprising of CEOs, CIOs, VCs, analysts including CIOReview board scrutinized several companies and fi nalized the list of `20 Most Promising Cloud Computing Companies'. Like the CRCloud20 Companies, if you can bring in the right mix of passion, energy and chemistry in your team, you will defi nitely win the confi dence of millions of customers. Christo JacobManaging Editorchristo@cioreview.comBring in the Right Chemistry Editor-in-Chief Harvi Sachar Managing Editor Christo Jacob Editorial Staff Benita M Rachita Sharma Sagaya Christuraj Thomson Antony Joe Philip Sr.Visualiser Ashok kumar Mailing AddressCIOReview44790 S. Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510.490.2428, F:510.440.8276 September 2013, volume 2-9 Published monthy by CIOReview subscription rate: $60 for 12 issues To subscribe to CIOReviewVisit www.cioreciew.com Copyright © 2013 CIOReview, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.CIOReviewCIOReviewSEPTEMBER - 2013CIOReview's circulation is audited and certified by BPA International (Audit Pending). Visualiser Ranjith C
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