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Microsoft is a leader in 18 Gartner Magic Quadrants, including Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
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Published onAugust 4, 2016
published onAugust 4, 2016
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Microsoft has been scoring some real victories lately in terms of how analysts have been rating their “cloud-first, mobile-first” productivity solutions. Gartner, in particular, has been rating Microsoft as a Leader in a number of their Magic Quadrants, fromcloud storagetoDisaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS).
Today,the Azure blogspent some going highlighting all of the areas where Microsoft is a cloud computing leader:
Today, Gartner has named Microsoft Azure as a leader in itsMagic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Servicefor the third year in a row based on completeness of our vision and ability to execute. We are honored by this continued recognition as we are relentless about our commitment and rapid pace of innovation for infrastructure services. With the G series, Azure led withthe largest VMs in the cloudand we continue to deliver market leading performance with ourrecent announcement supporting SAP HANA workloadsup to 32 TB. And while Azure is a world class cloud platform for Windows, it’s also recognized for industry-leading support for Linux and other open source technologies. Today, nearly one in three VMs deployed on Azure are Linux. Strong momentum for Linux and open source is driven by customers using Azure for business applications and modern application architectures, including containers and big data solutions. With over sixty percent of the 3,800 solutions in Azure Marketplace built on Linux, including popular open source images by Ubuntu, CoreOS, Bitnami, Oracle, DataStax, Red Hat and others, it’s exciting that many open source vendors considered Microsoft one of thebest cloud partners.
In fact, Microsoft is the only cloud computing vendor that is a Magic Quadrant Leader in all of the major cloud services categories, including IaaS, Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). These ratings place Microsoft in an enviable position above Amazon AWS, Salesforce, and Google. Looking at the following chart, we can see that Microsoft is a Leader in fully 18 different Magic Quadrants.
Microsoft highlights two specific customers who are using the Redmond company’s cloud solutions:
Clearly, Microsoft’s investments in their cloud computing strategy is paying off in terms of industry recognition to go along with the company’s significant gains in cloud revenues. Going forward, this recognition should continue to help Microsoft enlist more companies into their cloud computing platforms and continue their success in shifting from the Windows company to a leader in a “cloud-first, mobile-first” market.
Radu Tyrsina
Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).
For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.
Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.
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