Oracle

Safra Catz, Murk Hurd, Co-CEOs

Headquarters: Redwood City, Calif.

The software powerhouse was a late entrant into the cloud infrastructure market, but founder and CTO Larry Ellison is setting Oracle's sights on the industry leaders. Oracle's substantial on-premise customer base, database expertise, and financial and technological resources position the company to shake up the industry. Oracle Cloud is looking to differentiate itself with bare-metal compute capabilities.