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Microsoft (Azure) Gaining Market Share in Cloud

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The numbers are crunched from last quarter in the IT Cloud category. Enjoy these amazing facts:

  • AWS, Google, Microsoft, and IBM are all continuing to grow market share
  • $11 billion was made last quarter
  • Cloud revenue is on pass to surpass $200 billion by 2020
  • Microsoft Azure, with 11 percent of the total public cloud market, showed the largest growth in market share, with a 3 percent gain over the last four quarters
  • Quarterly cloud infrastructure service revenues are at nearly $11 billion and continue a growth rate of over 40 percent per year
  • Worldwide revenues from cloud and SaaS remain on track to surpass $200 billion by 2020
  • Microsoft Azure, with 11 percent of the total public cloud market, showed the largest growth in market share, with a 3 percent gain over the last four quarters
  • AWS, which commands 34 percent of the total market, and Google, with a 5 percent share, both saw their share grow by a single percent
  • IBM experienced no growth in its total share, but held steady at 8 percent, three points ahead of Google
  • The next 10 top-ranked cloud providers collectively saw their market share drop by 1 percent, with Alibaba and Oracle achieving the highest growth rates in that group
  • All other players in the cloud infrastructure market saw an overall drop in share of 5 percent as a group, a continuation of recent trends