Azure Site Recovery is an excellent choice for companies seeking to protect critical workloads running on either Hyper-V or VMware. Pricing is competitive and a tight integration with System Center makes this a very strong choice for companies that have standardized on the Microsoft stack.

IBM Cloud is a big cloud offering of which IaaS is only a part. Part of the package includes things you can't get anywhere else, such as IBM Watson, and the level of service IBM pioneered with its timeshare and outsourcing.

Rackspace Managed Cloud seems focused on making cloud provisioning as easy as possible, management as easy as possible, along with excellent performance at a reasonable price.

DigitalOcean provides an inexpensive and easy-to-use cloud service that provides basic services in a well-designed environment.

A report from Coinbase and Qriously found 42 percent of the world's top 50 universities now offer at least one blockchain or crypto course, and 9 percent of students have taken a course.

SAP HANA Service needs to mature, but it's still a powerful and unique Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution with many important capabilities.

Amazon Relational Database Service isn't a newbie-friendly Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution, but with the right professionals helping you out, it's a great relational database service.

Google BigQuery is a great Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution for cloud native companies and anyone working with machine learning application development or handling massive sets.

Microsoft Azure SQL Database is an excellent Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution for developers, business analysts, and database administrators given its ease of use and exemplary controls.

MongoDB Atlas is a developer's dream database, with a brilliantly simple user interface, more automation than most Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solutions, tons of flexibility and controls, built-in replication, and zero lock-in.

IBM Db2 on Cloud is a dream Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution for developers and business analysts because they can use it without the assistance of a database administrator, even with minimal skills.

SpiderOak Groups will keep your data safe and secure with its privacy and security options. But it lacks many of the features and app-specific backup options of its competitors, including collaboration and virtualization.

MozyPro for Business a solid, reasonably priced, no-fuss option for backing up your company's systems. It excels in personal storage, data retention, and security but lags a bit when it comes to backing up non-Microsoft virtualized environments and cloud services.

Though it still has some rough edges, if you need a secure, well-designed, and inexpensive email service without a lot of bells and whistles, then look no further than AtMail.

Runbox has a lot of flare in its quest for a privately owned, surveillance-resistant hosted email, but the service falls a bit flat on features.

Stackify Retrace is our Editors' Choice winner when it comes to monitoring application performance, but while it has the ability to manage infrastructure, too, that capability may not work for everyone.

Spiceworks Network Monitor is mature, free, and very slick, with enough IT punch to act as a one-stop IT shop for small to midsize businesses. It also gives you access to the Spiceworks community, which is an informed and responsive IT expert community.

New Relic Infrastructure does a great job of allowing its monitoring capabilities to work both on-premises and in the cloud, however its interpretation of "infrastructure" currently encompasses only servers so you'll need another solution to manage anything else.

ConnectWise Automate, formerly known as LabTech, does a solid job as an agent-based infrastructure and network monitoring platform with good support for self-service and third-party integration.