Public Cloud Vendors Side by Side by Side
March 30, 2013
Grazed from Wall Stree Journal. Author: Tom Loftus.
Since the 2006 debut of Amazon.com Inc. ’s Amazon Web Services, more and more IT departments have caught on to the idea of renting online computing horsepower to test or develop business applications, host corporate human resources data and run Big Data-type analysis, among other tasks. The market for public cloud services, which are open to anyone who wants to use them, is now a $40 billion business, according to IDC.
Recent price battles between Amazon Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. could lead customers to believe that competing cloud vendors, who make many similar promises, differentiate themselves in few ways beyond price. But Amazon and, to a lesser extent, Microsoft provide customers with certain amenities that Google’s new offering, at the moment, does not…
To illustrate these differences, CIO Journal asked Amazon, Google and Microsoft to respond to questions suggested by a number of cloud computing analysts and consultants. The questions referred only to the vendors’ respective infrastructure and platform services, and not cloud-based software services such as email or other applications…
Read more from the source @ http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/02/26/public-cloud-vendors-side-by-side-by-side/