Sorry, Amazon, but Microsoft Is the World's #1 Cloud Vendor
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Re: Sorry, Amazon, but Microsoft Is the World's #1 Cloud Vendor
#2".. Nadella has spurred Microsoft to go all-in and end-to-end on the cloud across its enormous range of products and services that span everything from IoT sensors to mobile devices to hundreds of millions of PCs to [b]mission-critical servers[/b] and all the way in to the data center itself."
Which servers?
Re: Sorry, Amazon, but Microsoft Is the World's #1 Cloud Vendor
#3Mostly a short fluff article; however, I have noticed that Azure does have a few powerful features that AWS and GCP lack, most notably InfiniBand (fast interconnects), which I have needed on more than one occasion for HPC tasks. In fact, 4x16 core instances on Azure are currently faster at performing molecular dynamics simulations than 1x"64 core" instance on GCP. But the cost is extremely high, and I still haven't found a good cloud platform for short, high intensity HPC tasks.
That said, Azure probably has the worst UI—slow, buggy, and their CLI doesn't work with Anaconda installed on OS X. I had to hack Anaconda out of my path temporarily while using Microsoft's 'az' tool. Also, their new resource manager system is confusing. In terms of sheer compute capability though, Azure is hard to beat.
Re: Sorry, Amazon, but Microsoft Is the World's #1 Cloud Vendor
#4I don't think Amazon needs to be #1 in everything they do to achieve the kind of worldwide market domination Bezos wants.
They are top five in many multi-billion dollar industries like eCommerce, streaming video, eBooks, rockets, cloud services, and a bunch of other stuff I'm sure I'm missing.
Re: Sorry, Amazon, but Microsoft Is the World's #1 Cloud Vendor
#5".. Nadella has spurred Microsoft to go all-in and end-to-end on the cloud across its enormous range of products and services that span everything from IoT sensors to mobile devices to hundreds of millions of PCs to [b]mission-critical servers[/b] and all the way in to the data center itself." Which servers?
At least those - https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...
Re: Sorry, Amazon, but Microsoft Is the World's #1 Cloud Vendor
#6tl;dr: This is a Microsoft puff piece written by a PR firm. The ranking is based on abstract things like "completeness of offerings" and "future vision". There's a token revenue comparison as well in an attempt to give some substance which compares all of Microsoft's "cloud" (that is to say inclusive of things like Office 365) against Amazon's IaaS.
Re: Sorry, Amazon, but Microsoft Is the World's #1 Cloud Vendor
#7I had to verify the numbers stated in this article from different sources, and while I think the fair comparison is between Microsoft's "Intelligent Cloud unit" (which excludes Office 365) & AWS, the conclusion on financials in the article is surprisingly true, if only by accident.
Much to my surprise, Azure/MS seems to be making a lot more money, raking in $6.8B in Q1 2017 [1], vs AWS' $3.66B [2]!!
[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-q3-fy2017-earnings-...
[2] https://venturebeat.com/2017/04/27/aws-grabs-3-66-billion-in...
Re: Sorry, Amazon, but Microsoft Is the World's #1 Cloud Vendor
#8tl;dr: This is a Microsoft puff piece written by a PR firm. The ranking is based on abstract things like "completeness of offerings" and "future vision". There's a token revenue comparison as well in an attempt to give some substance which compares all of Microsoft's "cloud" (that is to say inclusive of things like Office 365) against Amazon's IaaS.
This has become annoyingly common and incredibly difficult to discern from honest articles these days. Google in particular seems to prefer them over actual blog posts of their own these days, and has major outlets like The Verge and WIRED heavily publishing for them.
I feel like its already well-known people are supposed to disclose when they are paid for an article, but there are non-monetary perks like exclusive interviews/access which aren't clearly disclosed as conflicts.
Re: Sorry, Amazon, but Microsoft Is the World's #1 Cloud Vendor
#9I had to verify the numbers stated in this article from different sources, and while I think the fair comparison is between Microsoft's "Intelligent Cloud unit" (which excludes Office 365) & AWS, the conclusion on financials in the article is surprisingly true, if only by accident. Much to my surprise, Azure/MS seems to be making a lot more money, raking in $6.8B in Q1 2017 [1], vs AWS' $3.66B [2]!! [1]: http://www.b…
Does that include Office 365 though? Because if so, that makes it an apples-to-oranges comparison.
Re: Sorry, Amazon, but Microsoft Is the World's #1 Cloud Vendor
#10I had to verify the numbers stated in this article from different sources, and while I think the fair comparison is between Microsoft's "Intelligent Cloud unit" (which excludes Office 365) & AWS, the conclusion on financials in the article is surprisingly true, if only by accident. Much to my surprise, Azure/MS seems to be making a lot more money, raking in $6.8B in Q1 2017 [1], vs AWS' $3.66B [2]!! [1]: http://www.b…
Does that include Office 365 though? Because if so, that makes it an apples-to-oranges comparison.
Doesn't include Office 365