Confronted by the constant inflow of data—both structured and unstructured, cloud technology is leading the world into the realm of analytics and performance optimizations. Over the internet, the capabilities of cloud is limitless as it has found myriad of applications within servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, intelligence, and more. The economic viability of cloud adoption and development has spurred a new breed of startups that promise true cloud enablement and a radical shift to business processes.

The emerging entrepreneurs are offering services that yield the best workflow performance through combinations of serverless and hybrid computing with AI and automation. Along the most notable benefit of ease of access, unlimited instances, and computing power, cloud technology has worked over its preceding security concerns and bringing about a catalytic impact on Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) culture. The myriad benefits held within the cloud ecosystem have compelled the CIOs to take greater cognizance of the domain deploying the best possible solutions for their organizations.

Leveraging this growing trend of ‘as-a-service’ offerings, technologists, industry leaders, and startups are infusing cloud-centric innovations into their products, proposing a fresh foundation to implement cloud services that ensure a dependable and risk-free business and process optimizations. In order to help organizations choose the right cloud technology provider, a distinguished panel comprising of CEOs, CIOs, analysts and the Cloud Tech Startups Editorial Board, has reviewed companies with a proven record of expertise in assisting enterprises with cloud-based solutions and strategies. The panel typically reviews various parameters such as storage and security protocols, the file system functions like sharing among others to catalogue the finalists. In this edition of Cloud Tech Startups, we present to you the “15 Most Promising Cloud Tech Startups - 2019.”