{"id":10822,"date":"2017-11-01T16:12:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T15:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devopsonline.co.uk\/?p=10822"},"modified":"2017-11-01T16:25:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T15:25:42","slug":"microsoft-fastest-growing-us-cloud-service-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devopsnews.online\/microsoft-fastest-growing-us-cloud-service-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft: The fastest growing US cloud service provider"},"content":{"rendered":"
According to Enterprise Cloud News, <\/em>Microsoft\u00a0is the fastest growing US cloud service provider, with revenue up 90% year-over-year in its third quarter.<\/p>\n AWS and Google own 42% and 76% of the cloud market, with IBM \u201cgaining not a lot\u201d, according to Canalys. <\/em><\/p>\n Oracle is growing, but from a small base, and Salesforce and Rackspace \u201cmaintain a strong position in specific niche segments\u201d revealed Synergy.<\/em><\/p>\n Synergy<\/em> estimated that quarterly cloud infrastructure revenues and hosted private cloud reached US$12billion, and are growing at more than 40% per year.<\/p>\n John Dinsdale, a chief analyst and research director at Synergy Research Group, said in a statement: \u201cWhile we forecast 40% growth in the total market for 2017, there\u2019s still something a little shocking about seeing a business unit the size of AWS consistently growing its revenues by over 40%.<\/p>\n \u201cMicrosoft and Google too deserve plaudits for the growth rates they are achieving, while IBM is gaining market share in its sweet spot of hosted private cloud services.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is becoming increasingly difficult for cloud providers outside of the leading pack to make an impression on the market share rankings.\u201d<\/p>\n Written by Leah Alger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Microsoft\u00a0is the fastest growing US cloud service provider, with revenue up 90% year-over-year in its third quarter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":10823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1158,1101],"tags":[771,70,1522,180,26,251,2272,748,2271],"yoast_head":"\n