In this space two projects that I have my eye on are Substratum (based in Ohio) and Dfinity.
Phi Beta Iota: Google is chasing Amazon (it will not catch up) while Oracle thinks deeply about an Amazon-killer. Everyone else is road kill.
See Especially:
Google infrastructure chief Urs Hölzle: This is the future of software and the cloud
See Also:
Autonomous Internet @ Phi Beta Iota
