The 20 Coolest Cloud Infrastructure Companies Of The 2025 Cloud 100

CRN breaks down the 20 most influential and important cloud infrastructure companies of 2025—from Cisco, IBM and Microsoft to CoreWeave, TierPoint and Zadara.

These 20 cloud companies are revolutionizing the red-hot cloud infrastructure market as customer demand for AI solutions and digital transformation is top of mind for businesses of all shapes and sizes.

From tech titans such as AWS, Broadcom, Cisco, Dell and Microsoft, to innovators like CoreWeave, Lumen Technologies, TierPoint and Zadara—CRN searched the cloud landscape to find 20 influential companies that are leading the cloud infrastructure market in 2025 as part of CRN’s 2025 Cloud 100 list.

These companies provide the data, server, storage, networking, management, security and cloud computing offerings that power the vast majority of cloud infrastructure and data centers across the world today.

The $336 Billion Global Cloud Infrastructure Market

Global enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services hit $84 billion in the third quarter of 2024 alone, up nearly $16 billion, or 23 percent year over year.

This represents a record $336 billion annual run rate, according to data from Synergy Research Group.

“Given the already massive size of the market, we are seeing an impressive surge in growth,” said John Dinsdale, a chief analyst at Synergy Research Group, in late 2024. “While some market headwinds have diminished, it is undoubtedly AI that is a prime factor behind this increased growth rate.”

Dinsdale said new “AI-oriented services and technology are helping the major cloud providers to ride a wave” with new capabilities leading to increased demand, revenue and customer investment in underlying technologies.

Many of the companies on CRN’s 20 Coolest Cloud Infrastructure Companies of 2025 own a portfolio of AI offerings or are investing heavily around AI-focused infrastructure, including Google Cloud, IBM and Rackspace Technology.

Here are the 20 cloud companies shaking up the market in 2025.

Amazon Web Services

Matt Garman

CEO

The $110 billion cloud computing titan won nearly one-third of the global cloud infrastructure services market in 2024 with no signs of slowing down this year. AWS pours billions each year into building new AWS Cloud Regions, which are chock-full of cloud infrastructure. A major goal in 2025 for AWS is to grab share in the AI processor market.

Broadcom

Hock Tan

President, CEO

Broadcom’s stock has climbed over 120 percent as of early January 2025 to $229 per share compared with $108 per share in January 2024. This huge jump is based on Broadcom’s massive infrastructure arsenal of chips, switches, routers and more it has for the AI era along with its 2022 blockbuster acquisition of VMware now being fully integrated inside Broadcom.

CoreWeave

Michael Intrator

CEO

CoreWeave was one of the hottest cloud infrastructure companies in the world with a $19 billion valuation following a $1.1 billion investment round in 2024. CoreWeave is heavily backed by leaders including Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco thanks its strategy of providing Nvidia GPUs and cloud computing services for AI workloads. Since 2024, CoreWeave has set up nine new data centers globally, with 11 more in progress.

Cisco Systems

Chuck Robbins

Chair, CEO

Cisco has been a staple in the cloud infrastructure industry for years as the world’s largest networking hardware provider. Not only is the networking giant driving innovation around switching and routers, but it has been doubling down on its AI infrastructure strategy with last year’s acquisitions of AI security trailblazer Robust Intelligence as well as AI services company Deeper Insights AI.

Dell Technologies

Michael Dell

Founder, Chairman, CEO

Dell Technologies is one of the world’s largest cloud hardware providers of servers, storage, data protection and hyperconverged infrastructure. Dell’s multi-cloud Apex portfolio includes Apex Cloud Services and Custom Solutions for multi-cloud control as well as offering cloud infrastructure platforms for Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift and VMware.

Digital Realty

William Stein

CEO

With a global footprint of over 300 data centers across 25 countries on six continents, Digital Realty is arguably the largest cloud data center and colocation provider in the world. The company’s massive data centers are full of cloud infrastructure from hyperscalers and IT hardware leaders. Digital Realty’s PlatformDigital data center platform provides customers with a secure data meeting place.

Flexential

Chris Downie

CEO

With colocation, cloud, connectivity and data protection technologies, Flexential’s FlexAnywhere platform anchors its services in 42 data centers across 19 markets in the U.S. on a 100-Gbps private network backbone. Flexential is poised for significant growth in 2025 from enterprise digital transformation, cloud adoption, and the needs of hyperscale and AI workloads.

Google Cloud

Thomas Kurian

CEO

Google Cloud grew revenue by 35 percent year over year in its most recent third-quarter 2024, bringing the company’s run rate to a record $45 billion. As the third largest cloud company, Google is investing heavily in AI-based microprocessors and accelerators in 2025 that it will leverage alongside its ever-growing cloud portfolio.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Antonio Neri

President, CEO

HPE is one of the world’s largest cloud infrastructure providers with a large portfolio of servers, storage and networking hardware thanks, in part, to its subsidiary Aruba Networks. HPE GreenLake offers customers cloud and Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions that can be deployed across private and public clouds with flexible IT infrastructure on-demand.

IBM

Arvind Krishna

Chairman, CEO

From servers and mainframes to storage systems and data centers, IBM provides the building blocks for hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence environments with customers in over 175 countries. The IBM Cloud is an enterprise platform designed for the most regulated industries by delivering a resilient, secure and compliant cloud platform that is AI-ready.

Lenovo

Yuanqing Yang

Chairman, CEO

Lenovo is a global provider of cloud hardware including a slew of innovative servers, storage, software-defined infrastructure and high performance computing offerings. The $57 billion company serves millions of customers in 180 markets worldwide thanks, in part, to its dominance in the PC market.

Lumen Technologies

Kate Johnson

President, CEO

Lumen Technologies specializes in cloud infrastructure to enable edge computing anywhere with a slew of networking, collaboration and cybersecurity products. The company’s portfolio includes everything from SD-WAN and Network as a Service to bare metal servers on edge nodes and prebuilt infrastructure for high-performance private cloud computing.

Microsoft

Satya Nadella

Chairman, CEO

The world’s largest software company is also the second largest cloud infrastructure service provider with approximately 20 percent share of the global cloud market thanks to Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud business generating over $24 billion sales during third -quarter 2024. This year, Microsoft said it plans to spend $80 billion on AI-enabled data centers to help fuel its AI ambitions.

Nutanix

Rajiv Ramaswami

President, CEO

Nutanix is a leader in hyperconverged software that helps power cloud infrastructure and data centers across the globe. The hybrid cloud company recently extended its AI infrastructure platform with a new cloud-native offering, Nutanix Enterprise AI, which can be deployed on any Kubernetes platform, at the edge, in core data centers and on public clouds like AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

Oracle

Safra Catz

CEO

The software superstar’s Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides on-demand cloud platforms and APIs for reliable and scalable computing services. In 2025, Oracle has already unveiled its latest Oracle Exadata X11M intelligent data architecture for public cloud and multi-cloud environments, giving customers flexibility to run Oracle Database workloads wherever they need without any application changes.

Rackspace Technology

Kevin Jones

CEO

Rackspace Technology is a leader in designing, building and operating cloud environments. The company provides end-to-end hybrid, multi-cloud and AI offerings around managing cloud infrastructure. Rackspace recently launched GPU-as-a-Service capabilities to empower AI infrastructure powered by Nvidia to help customers accelerate AI and data workloads.

Red Hat

Matt Hicks

President, CEO

Red Hat is the world leader of open-source software solutions delivering reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container and Kubernetes technologies that help run and manage cloud infrastructure. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing applications, develop cloud-native applications, and automate and secure complex cloud environments.

Scale Computing

Jeff Ready

Founder, CEO

Scale Computing is an edge computing infrastructure specialist whose platform combines storage, servers, backup, disaster recovery and hypervisor on a single platform. Leveraging its HyperCore technology, the Scale Computing Platform automatically identifies, mitigates and corrects infrastructure problems in real time, enabling applications to achieve maximum uptime.

TierPoint

Jerry Kent

Chairman, CEO

TierPoint provides dozens of cloud-ready data centers in 20 markets across the U.S. with a portfolio of connected IT platform offerings. Last year, the company launched its own hybrid private cloud built on Microsoft Azure Stack and the Dell Apex Platform, while also acquiring a new data center building in Missouri.

Zadara

Yoram Novick

CEO

Zadara evolved from a Storage as-a-Service player to a leading edge computing and sovereign cloud provider supporting Infrastructure as a Service. With over 500 edge cloud locations worldwide, Zadara’s distributed platform simplifies operational complexity and enables multitenancy through automated end-to-end provisioning of compute, storage and networking.