This week I had a chance to present my research on cloud computing to the Advanced Practices Council of SIM. I showed the overall ecosystem and the core player ecosytem during my presentation. Here is the list of players and the visual. These core players include both well-known companies and new entrants. Salesforce.com Facebook, Rightscale, Elastra, Kaavo, GigaSpaces, CohesiveFT, Hyperic, Cassatt, Amazon EC2, Flexiscale, Boomi, MuleSource, OpSource, Cast Iron Systems, Appirio, eVapt, Ping Identity, OpenID StrikeIron, Citrix, IBM, MySQL, Oracle, Intel, Microsoft, Sun, Vmware, Google, Amazon Web Services, Hewlitt-Packard.