Netsuite also faces stiff headwinds from companies that provide cloud infrastructure services.

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Most recently, Maritz had been running the cloud infrastructure services division at EMC (nyse: EMC - news - people ), corporate parent to VMware.

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Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business.

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