Coolest Cloud Infrastructure Vendors For 2016

2015 was a transformative year for cloud providers, one in which the industry matured and the provider landscape settled. More than a few budding cloud companies perished along the way, but those that survived the tumultuous dust-ups of previous years have consolidated their market positions.

Cloud providers now, for the most part, offer rich feature sets and high-uptime SLAs. That's leading organizations large and small to finally perceive cloud as a reliable, economical and practical choice for hosting critical IT workloads. Businesses of all stripes are migrating en masse to join early adopters as all-in cloud consumers.

Here are 20 Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers CRN thinks are worth knowing.

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