GatherSpace announced another update to its cloud platform in September 2011.

In 2012, Jolicloud is launching an html5 based cloud platform.

It can be a set of services that get loosely coupled together by this underlying cloud platform.

LeaseWeb has developed its own cloud platform, which it launched in March 2012.

There are two reasons for this: first, cloud platforms have redundant, highly available networks and normally don't experience such failures.

Second, Microsoft's cloud platform is about 3 years ahead of the competition, including Salesforce.

It also comes in handy for files that aren't otherwise stored in a cloud platform.

These are available for download as well as immediate deployment on the supported cloud platforms.

It's also the case that the public nature of popular cloud platforms is a huge part of their economic value.

The company also offers its cloud platform as a service for customers to build their own applications.