Who’s Cloud Is It Anyway? Battle of the Enterprise – HP Takes On Amazon AWS – Workday Is Working On Own Cloud
June 18, 2013
Grazed from Forbes. Author: John Furrier.
The cloud industry of Abbott and Costello took place last week – Who’s on first..what’s on second and I don’t know who is on third? This was the cloud drama that happened last week in what is now a full blown fierce competitive marketplace for enteprise grade cloud industry. HP vs Amazon Web Services – folks the cloud wars are on. HP is taking the gloves off. Here is the story that unfolded this week and SiliconANGLE’s report. This is just the beginning of a hyper-competitive blood bath cloud market and the stakes are high. The battle for the enteprise
Amazon’s attack on the enterprise market has traditional infrastructure providers taking notice and in some cases making bold claims that some are saying may be dubious. Amazon is expected to generate more than $3B in AWS revenue this year, making it a large, and certainly one of the fastest growing infrastructure providers on the planet…
At the HP Discover (#hpdiscover) industry conference in Las Vegas last week, EVP of Software and Solutions, Bill Veghte said that smoking hot HR SaaS provider Workday had moved off Amazon’s AWS and onto the HP Public Cloud. SiliconANGLE was surprised to hear this and has been investigating this story since Veghte’s claims. Immediately after Veghte’s claim his comments were tweeted by attendees of his keynote speech last Thursday morning. Immediately following Amazon made statements that counter HP’s claims and suggest Workday continues to run on Amazon…
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