Why Microsoft’s cloud matters: Hint the reason begins with “A” but it ain’t Azure
June 23, 2013
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
It won’t surprise you to hear that Microsoft cloud chief Satya Nadella thinks Windows Azure is ready for primetime not only among the big and medium-sized companies where Windows and .NET are entrenched but among lean Mac-laden startups that have made Amazon Web Services the de facto infrastructure standard.
In his view, Windows Azure is already a major player in public cloud and will get bigger because Microsoft has the apps that prove Azure’s mettle day in and day out. In an interview following his Structure 2013 talk, Nadella conceded that Azure does not yet have an outside “poster child” for Azure — the role Netflix plays for AWS. But, it does have a ton of internal workloads humming away testing out the service…
Xbox Live, Bing and Office 365 all run on Azure now, Nadella, whose title is president of Microsoft’s Server and Tools group, told me. (Office 365 was a surprise to me – but hey, he should know) “Our first party stuff is big. The fact that Xbox Live with 45 million subscribers– that’s more than Netflix — is fully on Azure shows the scale,” Nadella said. Netflix claimed 29.2 million subscribers in April…
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