Microsoft ended the year with the highest cloud revenue of 2017, and a growth rate of 56%. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2018/02/05/why-microsoft-is-ruling-the-cloud-ibm-is-matching-amazon-and-google-is-15-billion-behind/#75bb90961dc1
Doesn't Microsoft count its Office business towards Cloud? I guess by the same logic Salesforce shows up in this ranking. You could probably put any SaaS in it then.. Don't fall for this bullshit. Public infrastructure-as-a-service is what counts, everything else is noise.
TBF I assume Google does too So amazon is really far ahead still
Microsoft counting Bing revenue towards total cloud revenue is like Google counting its Search service towards the Cloud revenue. Google doesn't, nor should Microsoft.
The author is a tool that doesn’t look at market share or growth correctly. IBM is matching, lol.
That dude is making fun of himself
IBM is doing great ! Kudos
People still read Forbes?
IBM is just not sexy enough for TechCrunch bloggers. That’s why we get ignored.
Just won an AWS compete at a Fortune 500 this week. Like taking candy from a baby... honestly Watson is bigger competition lately.
Intelligent cloud revenue number does not include Office or Bing or LinkedIn :-) The company makes more than 100 billion and the 18 billion cloud number does not include everything under the sun as a few folks seem to be suggesting on this thread.
Wait, the source is himself? Am I reading that correctly? Also I didn’t see the breakdown of the numbers anywhere. Probably just Blind though :)
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I think that people should compare AWS with Azure, not with all MS cloud services because they include Bing, Dynamics, O365, etc.
The author is making a point about cloud -- not about the sub-set of cloud that is public infrastructure cloud or public cloud as a platform (IaaS + PaaS + aPaaS). If the author was making a point about public cloud platform market share and incorrectly used the stated numbers, then yes that's a problem. But the author never made that point, so the author used the correct numbers. Whether the main race is for cloud (as in all up cloud) or cloud platform only is a different debate. I see merits to both races. People who blindly argue for IaaS market share are not seeing the long term picture. The race for PaaS will be much more interesting to follow.
Then all Amazon revenue that uses cloud tech should be considered cloud revenue, including revenue from Amazon.com! Microsoft is just lying to investors in desperation. It is irrelevant already in the desktop, mobile, and even lost a 2 player race in games. It is sinking LinkedIn, which is now a marketing channel. And as soon as marketing money stops feeding Azure accounts people fly away to AWS or GCP. This marketing trick distracts from what is really customer focus: having a better and cheaper service.