Microsoft Applying Cloud Force Multiplier Effect

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Mike Vizard.

One of the things about Microsoft’s (MSFT) cloud computing strategy that isn’t always fully appreciated is the enormity of the ecosystem being built around Windows services in the cloud. For example, with the recent addition of Rackspace to the number of cloud service providers running the same core Microsoft Cloud OS platform now extends to well more than 100 different companies.

Based on Windows Server 2012, the Microsoft Cloud OS platform provides a consistent set of IT services customers can invoke consistently no matter where Microsoft provides them via its Azure cloud platform or any one of more than 100 other cloud service providers. In stark contrast to that ecosystem, the cloud services from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, IBM and others are only available via a single provider…

Marco Limena, vice president of Hosting Service Providers at Microsoft, explains that a big part of the Microsoft cloud strategy is to leverage partners to apply a force multiplier effect across the cloud. That’s critical because no IT organizations want to be locked into a single cloud service provider, said Limena…

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