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Of all the cloud companies in the industry today, Alphabet’s Google is the one company that had the longest and strongest experience in managing large scale data center infrastructure. But alas, it was the last company to join the Infrastructure-as-a-Service race with its Google Compute Engine. Note: Cloud reviews for AWS, Microsoft, IBM and Oracle…
In the first three articles in this multi-part series, we covered the cloud businesses of the world’s top cloud providers: Amazon, Microsoft and IBM. In this fourth part, we take a closer look at Oracle’s “splash” entry into the market with its grand claims of being able to take AWS head on in the public…
In this cloud industry review series, I’ve been talking about the biggest players in cloud, the edge they have over the competition, the pace at which they’ve been growing and where they are as at the end of 2016 – the Year of Cloud. The first article covered cloud infrastructure industry leader Amazon Web Services,…
Yesterday, we covered the champion of the cloud infrastructure industry, Amazon Web Services. We saw how their margins had grown despite more than 50 price cuts on their core cloud infrastructure offering, and we also saw how their cloud revenues had ballooned over the past several years, and how they continue to show strong growth….
As 2016 draws to a close, this would be the right time to take a closer look at the cloud industry’s growth, the impact on specific companies and how the landscape has evolved in the last eight quarters. Let’s dig a bit into the numbers, starting with the segment leader, Amazon. Though there is lot…
Over the past several articles in this Cloud Industry Review 2016 series, we’ve seen the business side of the cloud industry. We covered all the top cloud service providers (CSPs), their strengths, how big their cloud businesses are, what their future looks like and so on. In this final summary piece we’ll put everything together…