Microsoft Azure, born in February 2010 (not on a leap year), is approaching it’s 10th birthday. Azure is home to over 600 of Microsoft’s services, a large contributor to Microsoft’s announcement this year of its first revenue post beyond $110bn and server infrastructure in 140 countries – not bad for a ten year old.
In fact, over 90% of the Fortune 500 run processed on the Microsoft Cloud.
Whilst AWS (Amazon Web Services) is still at the top of the public cloud market with 33% of the share, a share which has stayed the same for 3 years. Meanwhile Microsoft has been gaining ground quickly in this growing marketplace with a 3% jump to 13% at the beginning of 2018. Whilst we don’t have exist figures for 2019 the predictions are a similar or increased share to around 20%.
We have highlighted the key changes to Azure since its birth in 2010:
With the rapid growth of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 services we expect more organisations taking advantage of improving productivity by scaling cloud applications and taking a cloud-first network strategy.