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Let’s be honest: the meaning of the phrase “in the cloud” is a bit nebulous (no pun intended).

Cloud is quickly becoming one of the biggest burgeoning sectors in Boston, and yet there are nearly too many variations on the term “cloud” in company bios to count. To put it simply, cloud computing software leverages the power of the Internet to enable users to stay connected across devices and make contributions in real-time. Startups are increasingly opting to build their technology in a way that is cloud-compatible to suit our increasingly mobile society. Servers around the globe are now supporting cloud systems designed for security platforms, data storage, enterprise solutions and more to make the our lives all the more sharable and efficient.

Take a look at the cluster of Boston startups that are killing it in the cloud.

Kinvey

Kinvey is the complete mobile back-end platform, enabling developers to prototype new mobile business apps, mobilize critical legacy data, and integrate with public and private data sources rapidly and repeatedly.

The Boston-based Backend-as-a-Service startup partnered with Google this summer. The partnership allows developers using the App Engine, Google’s cloud-based platform for the development of web apps, to utilize Kinvey features like user authentication and data mobilization.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Backupify

This Cambridge company is  the leading provider of backup solutions for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. Backupify offers recovery tools desgined for Gmail and Google Apps, among others.

This summer, Backupify extended their product to Salesforce.com. The updated product provides even more backup for Salesforce, and focuses specifically on metadata, including reports and their associated sources and filters, page layouts, email templates, dashboards and other types of metadata.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cloudant

This Database-as-a-Service startup reeled in $12 million in Series B back in May for its distributed NoSQL database services.

Since its start in 2008, Cloudant has opened offices in Seattle, the U.K. and has plans to break ground on an office in San Francisco.

 

 

Yesware

The self-proclaimed “email for salespeople” platform is a free add-on to the Google Apps’ cloud. Yesware simplifies the lives of sales teams everywhere by offering email tracking and team collaboration online, as well as making options like reminders and custom message templating available.

In September, the startup scored $13M in Series C from Battery Ventures, along with preexisting investors Google Ventures, Foundry Group, IDG Ventures and Golden Venture Partners, topping off the three-year old sales productivity platform’s total financing at $18.5 million.