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Microsoft ’s ( MSFT ) Azure service is gaining ground vs. Amazon Web Services in public cloud computing, says a RightScale survey of small businesses and large companies. Research firm RightScale surveyed 1,060 buyers of public and private cloud computing services. Some large companies have also been interested in a hybrid cloud model — running the most important business apps on their own servers behind a private corporate firewall and accessing public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers as needed. Amazon Web Services, part of Amazon.com ( AMZN ), is the biggest provider of IaaS, in which customers rent computer servers and data storage systems via the Internet. Microsoft competes in IaaS but is also strong in platform-as-a-service. In PaaS, cloud companies sell applications and software, including business management and database services, that run on cloud infrastructure. According to the RightScale report : “Overall, Amazon Web Services is used by 57% of survey respondents, flat from last year. Enterprise adoption of AWS grew from 50% to 56%, while adoption by smaller businesses fell slightly from 61% to 58%.” “Microsoft Azure IaaS grew strongly from 12% to 17% adoption, while Azure PaaS grew from 9% to 13%,” the report said. In private cloud deployments, RightScale said that VMware ( VMW ) is gaining traction. In public cloud, Alphabet ’s ( GOOGL ) Google lost ground, says the report. Scalper1 News
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