According to Technicl.ly Philly, open  cloud provider Linode offers an alternative to the big cloud providers. 

Cloud computing has fundamentally changed how we work, live, and play. The global network of remote computers has grown into a staggering $214 billion industry by making data and applications more accessible to more people wherever they are connected to the Internet

According to MIT Technology Review, Google is working on a new chip that will make cloud computing more secure. 

The cloud runs the world. Given that it’s such a huge source of profit and the fundamental infrastructure of the future, you might assume that Amazon, Google, IBM, and all the cloud companies raking in billions intimately know every piece of hardware, software, and code in their data centers.

Microsoft is harnessing the power of the cloud to offer quantum computing power to users, reports Wired. 

Microsoft got where it is by ensuring that Windows ran on many different types of hardware.