Alex Brown, CEO of Chicago-based 10th Magnitude, after it had been selected as Microsoft's Hybrid Cloud and Infrastructure Platform Partner of the Year, which the vendor awards to a partner that has excelled in delivering value to enterprise customers through its data center technologies.

"It's a huge part of our business today. In the past six and a half years, we've grown up as the public cloud has grown up. We've seen the business take interesting twists and turns, and we've continued to add new capabilities and layers to what we're doing."