OnApp has steadily been building a force of cloud providers leveraging its cloud platform. OnApp is now available on IBM's SoftLayer infrastructure and is also available in the newly launched IBM Cloud marketplace.
Chinese data center services provider 21Vianet announced a strategic partnership agreement to use global electronics manufacturer Foxconn to build carrier-neutral internet data centers.
Vmware will continue to expand its "as a service" portfolio through the addition of multi-tenant data center provider space. It also sees Desktops as a Service playing a larger role going forward.