Will Microsoft Be Successful in the Cloud?
July 13, 2013
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Larry Carvalho.
When you think of IT vendors and cloud computing, companies like Amazon and Google first come to mind because they are very successful with start-ups that leverage their cloud services. HP, IBM and Oracle are making big strides primarily by targeting large enterprises with private cloud solutions. Cisco, EMC and Intel are primarily technology vendors serving as arms providers to cloud service providers.
Microsoft falls in a unique category that dominates certain IT segments and covers customers ranging from start-ups, consumers and large enterprises. The recent Microsoft Build conference provided many opportunities to learn about a range of the company’s cloud computing capabilities…
The following are some key aspects of Microsoft’s cloud capabilities that I observed at Build:
In-house Experience:
The best way to gauge customer requirements is to use your own cloud services. Microsoft’s keynote presentations on the second day of the conference emphasized the experience of using their own technology for consumer-facing solutions like Skype, Outlook.com and Bing. Other than Amazon and Google, few cloud service providers can claim such extensive use of its own products. This gives customers confidence that cloud services have been tried and tested under challenging circumstances…
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