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Merry Christmas from AJSnetworking.com!

Merry Christmas

I just wanted to wish all of my readers a very Merry Christmas. I will be busy tomorrow in Windows Mixed Reality and outside flying drones. I hope you have an incredible day. Don’t forget to take some time out to reflect on how thankful we all are for another wonderful year.

I look forward to posting for you every day in 2018. Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas

Microsoft (Azure) Gaining Market Share in Cloud

Azure

The numbers are crunched from last quarter in the IT Cloud category. Enjoy these amazing facts:

  • AWS, Google, Microsoft, and IBM are all continuing to grow market share
  • $11 billion was made last quarter
  • Cloud revenue is on pass to surpass $200 billion by 2020
  • Microsoft Azure, with 11 percent of the total public cloud market, showed the largest growth in market share, with a 3 percent gain over the last four quarters
  • Quarterly cloud infrastructure service revenues are at nearly $11 billion and continue a growth rate of over 40 percent per year
  • Worldwide revenues from cloud and SaaS remain on track to surpass $200 billion by 2020
  • Microsoft Azure, with 11 percent of the total public cloud market, showed the largest growth in market share, with a 3 percent gain over the last four quarters
  • AWS, which commands 34 percent of the total market, and Google, with a 5 percent share, both saw their share grow by a single percent
  • IBM experienced no growth in its total share, but held steady at 8 percent, three points ahead of Google
  • The next 10 top-ranked cloud providers collectively saw their market share drop by 1 percent, with Alibaba and Oracle achieving the highest growth rates in that group
  • All other players in the cloud infrastructure market saw an overall drop in share of 5 percent as a group, a continuation of recent trends