All this is based on a survey. It would be very interesting to know the number of people that participated in that survey and the tech they’re working on.
I'd also like to hear what part of "Azure" they're using. Microsoft was smart to leverage (force) O365 customers into being Azure customers using AzureAD. What I'd like to know is how many have actually graduated beyond that and are hosting real infrastructure.
As a central European I would also like to know who hosts anything on Azure. They are building new data centers here I believe, but the connection speed their services are providing is laughable. It may work for a retro-site from the 90s to simulate a 56k modem.
If you restrict your employees to browser based office, you would loose a vast amount of productivity.
Their success is probably based on Office alone. AWS does supply extremely fast services and we use it for hosting. But business owners often prefer to use services from a single provider, so MS does indeed have an advantage.
Yes, the numbers don't seem to match other reports I've seen on cloud market share. Maybe they surveyed people with MSDN subscriptions or companies that already have services in Azure. Additionally, my understanding is that Microsoft reports other "cloud-related" services (Office365, etc.) as part of Azure. If that's true then they are nowhere near AWS levels.
This report also states that Google may be looking to purchase their way to the top of the cloud offering pile. I'm not sure who they would get that would make that much difference; Rackspace?
brazzledazzle|6 years ago
raxxorrax|6 years ago
If you restrict your employees to browser based office, you would loose a vast amount of productivity.
Their success is probably based on Office alone. AWS does supply extremely fast services and we use it for hosting. But business owners often prefer to use services from a single provider, so MS does indeed have an advantage.
Corrado|6 years ago
This report also states that Google may be looking to purchase their way to the top of the cloud offering pile. I'm not sure who they would get that would make that much difference; Rackspace?
lucasverra|6 years ago