Microsoft Azure Cloud Evolves For Intelligent Machine Learning
November 11, 2015
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Brian Bridgwater.
Microsoft has its fingers deep inside the greasy guts of its own Azure cloud computing mechanics right now. The firm doesn’t exactly publicly acknowledge that it lags behind Amazon Web Services in terms of market share, but it is doing as much as it can to make up ground — it has now invested more than US$15bn in building a global cloud infrastructure and cloud services proposition.
There are currently 26 Azure regions around the planet — and a ‘region’ in this case can have more than one datacenter in it, so for example in the Azure world we find that American is two regions: West and East. It is important to remember that AWS is actually bigger than (at least four, some say closer to ten) of its largest cloud competitors combined. The catch up players also include Google, CenturyLink, VMware, Virtustream, Rackspace and IBM’s SoftLayer…
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