The Cloud Foundation segment of the marketplace includes those companies who provide the tools and software that make up Cloud infrastructure. These companies provide such essentials as server software, virtualization, multi-tenancy, and hypervisor tools.

However, it is important to separate out Cloud Foundation companies from Cloud Infrastructure or Network Services companies, as they provide a fundamentally different set of products and services. In many cases these Cloud Foundation companies are already vendors to your existing data centers; transforming the way that those data centers are run, by reducing costs, and changing the required skill sets for staffing.

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