HPC in the Cloud revealed the winners of its inaugural Editors' Choice Awards at 2010 Cloud Expo West in Santa Clara, Calif. The HPC in the Cloud team, including Tomas Tabor, publisher of HPC in the Cloud, and Nicole Hemsoth, managing editor for the online publication, are presenting the awards on the show floor during the Cloud Expo West event.

"It's exciting to present this award, in its first year of inception, honoring achievement at the extreme-scale leading-edge of cloud computing," said Nicole Hemsoth, managing editor of HPC in the Cloud. "After much collaboration with our editors and contributors, we came up with a list of winners who were truly pushing the envelope in high performance cloud computing, and really driving the technology forward."

In its first year, the HPC in the Cloud Editors' Choice Awards is determined through a rigorous selection process involving the publications editors and industry luminaries to determine the leaders in the extreme-scale leading-edge of cloud computing. The categories include Cloud Innovation Leader, Cloud Security Leader, Cloud Platform Innovators, Cloud Ecosystem Innovators, Cloud Management Innovators, Cloud Networking Innovators, Enterprise Cloud Leader, and Cloud Outreach and Education Innovators. The awards are an annual feature of the HPC in the Cloud publication.