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Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have all seen massive growth in their cloud computing businesses:
Amazon.com Inc, Microsoft Corp, Alphabet Corp's Google and Intel Corp are all putting their chips on the cloud computing business, and it is booming. All four companies posted stellar quarterly earnings on Thursday, showing the strength of the shift in corporate computing away from company-owned data centers and to the cloud.
Microsoft's Azure business nearly doubled, with year-over-year growth of 90 percent. The company does not break out revenue figures for Azure, but research firm Canalys estimates it generated $2 billion for Microsoft.
[...] Amazon Web Services is still delivering far more revenue than any of its peers. For the quarter, AWS raked in nearly $4.6 billion -- a year-over-year increase of 42 percent. AWS may have missed out on Costco, but the company secured deals with Hulu, Toyota Racing Development, and most notably, General Electric.
Google Cloud Platform landed deals with the likes of department store retailer Kohl's and payments processor PayPal. Like Microsoft, Alphabet does not break out revenue for Google Cloud Platform, but Canalys estimates the business generated $870 million in the quarter, up 76 percent year-over-year.
Also at NYT, BBC, and Seeking Alpha.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday October 28 2017, @04:37PM (2 children)
But we've come so far:
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(testing for extension)
Does your organization need 99.99999% uptime? Will you lose millions of dollars if you are down for 4 hours? Can you guarantee that your intranet won't fail and break everything for hours?
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Dr Spin on Saturday October 28 2017, @09:18PM (1 child)
An Intranet does not have to be a server under the CIO's desk. With hot and cold standby servers in colos in three different timezones, each with two backbone connections, I had 100% uptime for over 5 years on my own hardware. And it was not very expensive compared to the value of the data.
Currently I host my own web sites (server in closet with UPS) and manage a pretty good reliability. Current business does not need more.
Of course I cant scale up 100 fold in milliseconds. I never anticipate any need to unless I am enrolled into someone else's botnet.
OTOH, I believe Amazon, Google, Microsoft etc have all managed extensive downtime and lost data. TOS guarantees they toss you a few peanuts if they don't get it right, not that they WILL get it right. It ain't the same.
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Tuesday October 31 2017, @03:36AM
Managing your own hardware is hard.
For 99% of companies, Amazon, Google et al can provide much higher reliability than they could with self-owned hardware even if they could hire a half-decent sysadmin and rely on half-decent on-site support. No, shipping your only sysadmin via first class personnel freight every week to different colos is not viable for most companies.
I have acquaintances that have spent hours on a weekend babysitting on-site shitters to find and plug in an Ethernet cable. Yay for managing your own hardware. You are welcome to personally subject yourself to that kind of shit.
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