THREE’S A CLOUD! Microsoft veep says only Azure, Amazon, Google can do hyper space
June 18, 2014
Grazed from TheRegister. Author: Joe Fay.
There are only three companies capable of delivering hyperscale cloud computing, the head of Microsoft’s Azure declared yesterday. After years of cloud tub-thumping, it was inevitable that marketers would need a new modifier or level of hyperbole, and “hyper” is the obvious next choice. Definitions are elastic, but it’s agreed hyper-gear can ramp up to handle exponential increases in demand with no hiccups.
Jason Zander, corporate veep of Windows Azure engineering, told the crowd at the Cloud World Forum in London yesterday, there were only “three vendors in the hyperscale world”. The first is, inevitably, Microsoft with its own Azure offering; Zander took the opportunity to highlight the platform’s underpinning of first-person-shooter splatter-fest Titanfall, which avails itself of 100,000 cores within the Azure cloud…
The second, he said, were “our neighbours in Seattle”, which we’ll assume is Amazon, rather than Starbucks…
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