Microsoft Corporation Cloud Boss Ignores Google Inc

Grazed from LearnBonds. Author: Victor Alagbe.

Microsoft Corporation is no longer a relic of an era long gone as the takes giant strides to challenge Apple and Google Inc. One of those strides is the rapid growth being recorded in its cloud computing space– Microsoft Azure. In a recent interview, Mark Russinovich, Microsoft’s CTO of Azure cloud talks about Azure, Amazon AWS, and Google Cloud, which is a distant third.

Azure is Microsoft’s cloud business that provides practically endless computing power to clients who may not want to set up their own servers. The cloud war has been mainly between Amazon and Microsoft despite all the noise that Google makes about its Google Cloud Platform Network…

Google is not in the cloud picture

Russinovich in an interview with Fortune earlier this week called Google a “wild card” in the cloud space because it is “unclear what their strategy is.” He said that Google has made heavy investments in the cloud. “It’s very clear that they’ve got all the deep pockets” he added. However, he believes that deep pockets doesn’t usually mean success in the cloud space. In his words, “To be honest, when customers come in, they talk about us and Amazon…“We don’t hear Google show up in the conversations.”…

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