Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon
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Re: Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon
#2There is absolutely, positively, certifiably no way this is even close to true. Did the people are bloomberg even look at Microsoft's figures, or were they too busy counting the cash MS sent over?
Re: Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon
#3That looks pretty significant. Amazon Web Services are somewhere between $2 and $3.8 billion (depending on which analyst you believe), so Microsoft is potentially within striking distance of taking the crown.
Re: Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon
#4How are the free hours from BizSpark handled? (http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0012p) Are those treated as sales?
Re: Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon
#5There is absolutely, positively, certifiably no way this is even close to true. Did the people are bloomberg even look at Microsoft's figures, or were they too busy counting the cash MS sent over?
You massively underestimate enterprise/corporate use.
Re: Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon
#6There is absolutely, positively, certifiably no way this is even close to true. Did the people are bloomberg even look at Microsoft's figures, or were they too busy counting the cash MS sent over?
It seems pretty reasonable to me. If Msft makes $1 billion on 20% of the market, and Amzn makes $3.8 billion (high-end analyst estimate) with 71% of the market, the math roughly matches.
Re: Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon
#7There is absolutely, positively, certifiably no way this is even close to true. Did the people are bloomberg even look at Microsoft's figures, or were they too busy counting the cash MS sent over?
It seems pretty reasonable to me. If Msft makes $1 billion on 20% of the market, and Amzn makes $3.8 billion (high-end analyst estimate) with 71% of the market, the math roughly matches.
I think those market share numbers are suspicious.. according to rackspace they had 1.3b in sales of private cloud and public cloud services in 2012:
http://ir.rackspace.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=221673&p=irol-ne...
So either the total is more than 100% market share for the 3, or those numbers or wrong.
Edit: added "in 2012" for rackspace financials
Re: Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon
#8Doesn't surprise me. Microsoft has a strong hold in the "enterprise" (read large corporations with bureaucratic but big pockets) sector.
Re: Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon
#9This seems highly unlikely considering they don't remember to update the azure SSL certificate two years in a row.
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/02/25/windo...
Re: Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion, Challenging Amazon
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems pretty reasonable to me. If Msft makes $1 billion on 20% of the market, and Amzn makes $3.8 billion (high-end analyst estimate) with 71% of the market, the math roughly matches.
I think those market share numbers are suspicious.. according to rackspace they had 1.3b in sales of private cloud and public cloud services in 2012: http://ir.rackspace.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=221673&p=irol-ne... So either the total is more than 100% market share for the 3, or those numbers or wrong. Edit: added "in 2012" for rackspace financials
I'd agree, most of these numbers are "fuzzy" and based on analyst estimates; I'd almost be more surprised if they DID perfectly add up to 100%. :-)