Microsoft’s growth in Q1 2017 demonstrates the benefit of having a huge enterprise client base and converting it to Azure. Many of the leading enterprise vendors are all building on Azure Stack, Microsoft’s latest cloud initiative, to provide customers with hybrid solutions.Google has revamped its partner program as it strives to catch-up. “It has made progress toward meeting the technology and feature requirements of large enterprise customers. But to rival the others, it needs to demonstrate its enterprise readiness and enhance its credibility. Ultimately, to challenge AWS, vendors will need deep financial resources to continue to participate and advance.”

Source: Economic Times May 16, 2017 03:56 UTC