ATLANTA, GA — (Marketwired) — 05/06/13 — Cloud Sherpas was named a “Cool Vendor” for Application Services in a published on April 17 by Gartner, Inc., a leading analyst firm. We believe the designation further solidifies the company as one of the world-s leading cloud services brokerages.
Founded in 2007 as one of the original Google Apps partners, Cloud Sherpas has expanded its breadth of service offerings to include those from providers such as Salesforce and ServiceNow. Since last year, Cloud Sherpas has more than doubled in size and is expected to surpass $100 million in revenue this year as an aggregator, integrator and customizer of cloud services.
“In cloud computing, the need for intermediaries to aggregate, integrate or customize cloud services grows as the number of cloud services and the rate of consumer adoption grow,” stated Tiffani Bova, Research VP at Gartner in her November 2012 report, “Service Provider Primer: Cloud Services Brokerage.” In a report titled “Cool Vendors in Cloud Service Brokerage Enablers” published on April 23, Gartner estimates that approximately $100 billion will be spent worldwide annually on combined cloud services brokerage (CSB) roles by year-end 2014.
“Cloud Sherpas is honored to be recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor,” says David Northington, CEO at Cloud Sherpas. “As one of the world-s leading cloud services brokerages, we are focused on helping our clients leverage cloud applications to achieve business goals.”
Cloud Sherpas is one of the largest stand-alone cloud services brokerages, and its aggressive acquisition and growth strategy has given it global reach among its 5,000 clients. Based in Atlanta with more than 15 offices located around the world, Cloud Sherpas raised more than $80 million in private investment last year.
Cloud Sherpas is the two-time Google Enterprise Partner of the Year for Google Apps, a Platinum salesforce.com partner and the first ServiceNow partner to reach Preferred partner status globally. As one of the world-s leading cloud services brokerages we-ve helped over 5,000 customers adopt, manage and enhance cloud solutions from Google, salesforce.com, ServiceNow and other leading cloud vendors. Whether working with a global retailer to help them make their business more connected and collaborative, helping a financial services firm better manage their customer relationships, or consolidating global IT to a single system of record, Cloud Sherpas has the track record and trust of its partners to help the world-s largest organizations leverage the cloud and respond with agility to the rapid consumerization of IT. Cloud Sherpas is headquartered in Atlanta, GA with offices throughout the United States and operations in Australia, India, Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. For more information visit .
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