The week cloud computing took over the world

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Frederic Paul.

If you had any lingering doubts that cloud computing was dominating the world of information technology, last week’s quarterly earnings reports from Amazon and Microsoft should have obliterated them. Both companies announced big-time growth and revenue from their cloud operations.

Amazon shares its numbers

First, let’s talk Amazon, which for the first time broke out the numbers for its Amazon Web Services division, including "amounts earned from sales of compute, storage, database, and other AWS service offerings for startups, enterprises, government agencies, and academic institutions." And those numbers were scorching!…

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