The IaaS Merry-Go-Round
June 3, 2013
Grazed from Web Host Industry Review. Author: Stacy Griggs.
The Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) marketplace is rapidly evolving to be a clash of four titans plus a number of other companies trying to differentiate themselves based on price, service, compliance or sales models. Let’s take a quick look at the major competitors and some recent news they have announced.
- Amazon AWS – Recently passed $2 billion in revenue and Morgan Stanley is predicting that AWS will hit $24 billion in revenue in the next 10 years. With their dual devotion to engineering and price reductions, they are the most formidable (by far) competitor in the cloud…
- Microsoft’s Azure – Recently passed $1 billion in revenue and Microsoft is doing all it can to encourage its developers and partners to think cloud first when deploying new applications. Additionally, Azure has recently evolved from its PaaS roots to now include full IaaS capabilities…
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