Microsoft: We’re adding 7,000 Azure IaaS users per week
June 7, 2013
Graze from ZDNet. Author: Mary Jo Foley.
Microsoft’s Windows Azure team has typically held its momentum and sales numbers fairly close to the vest. But this week at the TechEd conference, execs did share a couple of interesting data points. First things, first. There’s a new Windows Azure General Manager (GM) at Microsoft as of a couple of weeks ago. Steven Martin is the new GM on the business, Microsoft officials told me this week.
Bill Hilf, the former GM for Azure Product Management — who also served previously as the GM of Technical Computing, Windows Server and Open Source and Platform Strategy — left Microsoft rather abruptly to join HP’s Cloud Product Management Group, I’ve heard from several of my sources. Microsoft isn’t commenting about where Hilf went or reasons for his departure…
I met with Martin at TechEd this week in New Orleans about Azure’s growth trajectory. He said Microsoft is adding about 1,000 new Azure customers a day. Microsoft officials said back in April 2013 that it has 200,000 customers for Windows Azure. Company officials have declined to say how many of these customers are part of Microsoft’s own various divisions and/or how many of these customers are paying customers…
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