Cloud.com, a leading provider of open source cloud computing software for public and private cloud environments, today announced it has been named a 2011 “Hot Company” by Network Products Guide in its 6th Annual 2011 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards. These awards honor achievements and recognitions in every facet of the IT industry. Winners were announced in Las Vegas on Tuesday, May 10 during the annual dinner and award presentation.   

Recognizing that organizations currently face a daunting task when trying to build their own infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud environments, Cloud.com provides the latest and the most advanced software platform to build highly scalable, highly reliable cloud computing environments. Cloud.com currently counts over 50 large-scale production clouds in deployment that have been built on its market-leading open source cloud computing solution, including leading social gaming companies, global telecommunications companies, managed hosting providers and Fortune 1000 enterprises. Cloud.com technologies can be deployed on-premise or as hosted cloud services. Cloud.com’s flagship technology, CloudStack, is an open source cloud computing software platform that accelerates the deployment, management and configuration of highly scalable public and private IaaS clouds, and does so in a simple-to-install software package.

“We are extremely pleased to be named a Hot Company by Network Products Guide this year,” said Peder Ulander, CMO at Cloud.com. “This award validates our dedication to providing an innovative technology that allows enterprises and service providers to easily build, deploy and manage public or private cloud environments at a cost-effective price.”