Top 100 Cloud Influencers and Brands in 2015

We are creating more and more content than ever before on our computers, notebooks, tablets and smart phones. 90% of the world’s content was generated in the last two years alone! From documents, music, television series, movie downloads; to emails and photographs, such a variety of data now exists that we want to access from any of our devices at any given time. Personal cloud services such as Dropbox, One Drive, Google Drive or iCloud provide the solution to our centralised and accessible data storage needs.

 

Step away from the personal and into the world of business and the same demands for storage exist, but on an even bigger scale. Due to the emergence of big data analytics and increased mobile usage, experts predict that small businesses employing cloud computing will more than double in the next six years, from 37% to 80%.  The Cloud enables network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources, allowing everyday computer users and organisations to maximize the effectiveness of the shared resources, as well as cutting costs and reducing IT obstacles.

Mapping the community

We were very interested in seeing which Cloud professionals and brands were leading the online discussion, so we analysed close to  888,571  tweets mentioning the following hashtags: #cloud OR #cloudcomputing OR #hybridcloud OR #privatecloud OR #publiccloud OR #thecloud OR #cloudstorageand and identified the top 100 most influential brands and individuals leading the discussion.

We discovered a very engaged community with much discussion between individuals and brands. Below you can see a network map of the online conversation, be sure to click on the map to enjoy the full size network diagram in greater detail.

Top 100 Individuals

We looked at all the individuals engaging on Twitter to bring you a list of the top 100 most influential individuals in the Cloud landscape.

Rank	Twitter Handle	Name	PageRank (Normalised)
1	@imoyse	Ian Moyse	100
2	@simonlporter	SimonPorter	34.78
3	@keithbdixon	Keith B Dixon	21.58
4	@markrussinovich	Mark Russinovich	17.88
5	@DavidLinthicum	DavidLinthicum	17.81
6	@craigbrownphd	Craig Brown, Ph.D.	17.4
7	@dmuse	Dan Muse	11.3
8	@jsnover	jsnover	10.87
9	@sandy_carter	sandy carter	10.49
10	@joemckendrick	Joe McKendrick	9.25
11	@scottgu	Scott Guthrie	9.18
12	@rwang0	R Ray Wang (王瑞光)	8.88
13	@gigabarb	Barb Darrow	8.76
14	@Timothy_Hughes	Tim Hughes	8.15
15	@mikeettling	Mike Ettling – SAP	7.69
16	@GrandaCarlos	Carlos Granda	7.54
17	@LouisColumbus	LouisColumbus	7.52
18	@Dana_Gardner	Dana Gardner	6.6
19	@dez_blanchfield	Dez Blanchfield	6.38
20	@Staten7	Staten7	6.06
21	@holgermu	Holger Mueller	6.05
22	@QuadStack	Bill Kleyman	5.63
23	@swardley	swardley	5.59
24	@golubbe	Ben Golub	5.57
25	@DinkoEror	Dinko Eror	5.56
26	@AliciaVRuiz	Alicia Ruiz Calle	5.25
27	@GregorPetri	Gregor Petri	4.92
28	@bernardgolden	Bernard Golden	4.66
29	@tcrawford	Tim Crawford	4.62
30	@ArmughanAA	Armughan Ahmad	4.51
31	@dhinchcliffe	Dion Hinchcliffe	4.47
32	@HaleChris	Chris Hale	4.35
33	@ekhnaser	Elias Khnaser	4.31
34	@tolvet	Tony Olvet	4.26
35	@christianve	Christian Verstraete	4.2
36	@NeilCattermull	Neil Cattermull	4.18
37	@ReneBuest	Rene Buest	4.09
38	@JKennedyMSFT	Janet Kennedy	4.07
39	@danworthV3	danworthV3	3.94
40	@barrymoltz	barrymoltz	3.83
41	@GMHornet	David Tesler	3.81
42	@jhurwitz	Judith Hurwitz	3.81
43	@jensieger	Jen Sieger	3.76
44	@GordonDatDell	Gordon Davey	3.71
45	@NicoleHemsoth	Nicole Hemsoth	3.69
46	@adrianco	adrian cockcroft	3.68
47	@blueboxjesse	Jesse Proudman	3.37
48	@thecloudlawyer	Frank Jennings	3.2
49	@pjtec	PJ Jakovljevic	3.16
50	@stephen_horning	Stephen Horning	3.06

 

Top 100 Brands

In the top 100 brands we can find a great selection of industry heavyweights like Microsoft, IBM and Google as well as useful resources such as Cloud Blogs and Talkin’ Cloud.

Rank	Twitter Handle	Name	PageRank (Normalised)
1	@Azure	Microsoft Azure	100
2	@IBMcloud	IBM Cloud	55.77
3	@Oracle	Oracle	33.92
4	@TheCloudNetwork	TheCloudNetwork☁️	30.14
5	@hphelioncloud	HP Helion Cloud	28.88
6	@CiscoCloud	Cisco Cloud	26.68
7	@CloudExpo	CloudEXPO ®	23.79
8	@CIOonline	CIO.com	23.39
9	@MSCloud	Microsoft Cloud	22.12
10	@NETGEAR	NETGEAR	21.72
11	@googlecloud	GoogleCloudPlatform	18.73
12	@IDC	IDC	18.21
13	@bluebox	Blue Box Cloud	15.46
14	@Gartner_inc	Gartner	14.76
15	@awscloud	Amazon Web Services	14.1
16	@SoftLayer	SoftLayer	12.4
17	@docker	Docker	11.53
18	@InformationWeek	InformationWeek	10.98
19	@EMCcorp	EMC Corporation	10.54
20	@NetworkWorld	Network World	10.21
21	@VMware	VMware	10.1
22	@cloud_comp_news	CloudTech	9.97
23	@BoxHQ	Box	9.85
24	@NetSuite	NetSuite	8.82
25	@DigitalAgendaEU	Digital Agenda	8.52
26	@SAP	SAP	8.26
27	@cloudtweaks	CloudTweaks	7.82
28	@TheRegister	The Register	7.21
29	@JumptuitNow	Jumptuit	6.93
30	@451Research	451 Research	6.69
31	@DevOpsSummit	DevOps Summit	6.46
32	@talkin_cloud	Talkin’ Cloud	6.29
33	@CRN	CRN	6.24
34	@platformnet	The Platform	6.04
35	@CloudBlogs	Cloud Blogs	5.92
36	@Concur	Concur	5.86
37	@comparethecloud	Compare the Cloud	5.85
38	@AccentureCloud	Accenture Cloud	5.82
39	@clouderPC	clouderPC	5.81
40	@CenturyLinkEMEA	CenturyLink EMEA	5.79
41	@infoworld	InfoWorld	5.77
42	@Dell	Dell	5.68
43	@mspmentor	MSPmentor	5.64
44	@UK_CIF	Cloud Industry Forum	5.45
45	@cloudsa	CloudSecurityAllianc	5.44
46	@CSC	CSC	5.36
47	@ComputerWeekly	ComputerWeekly	5.29
48	@Internet2	Internet2	5.16
49	@ThingsExpo	@ThingsEXPO	5.03
50	@TTintheCloud	SearchCloudComputing	4.72

 

At Onalytica we love building these lists and want to give back to our loyal readers as much as we can. If you’re interested in other topics (such as Machine to Machine, Wearable Tech, Internet of Things) be sure to have a gander on our blog or why not propose some topics to us on twitter? We also build some very cool software to manage all of these influencers. Get a free demo today by clicking the button below!

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Disclaimer: As ever with these lists, it must be stressed that the ranking is by no means a definitive measurement of influence, as there is no such thing. The brands and individuals listed are undoubtedly influential when it comes to driving discussion in the #cloud debate.

The PageRank based methodology we use to extract influencers on a particular topic takes into account the number and quality of contextual references that a user receives. These calculations are independent of a user’s number of followers, but we do filter our lists based on how much a user is engaged in the conversation and the influence they drive through their networks.

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