Microsoft making gains in worldwide cloud computing battle with Amazon
December 19, 2014
Grazed from BizJournals. Author: Ben Miller.
Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service is making gains against Amazon.com Inc.’s market-leading Amazon Web Services cloud product. That’s according to Reuters, which reports Amazon is having a tougher sales job these days in a post Edward Snowden information leak world, because Amazon doesn’t have the worldwide presence like Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) possesses.
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is reportedly losing some cloud clients to Microsoft because it doesn’t have data centers in many countries, unlike Microsoft. Microsoft, which employs roughly 1,200 people in Irving, is able to offer companies more direct oversight over their data storage because of its broader local presence around the world…
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