Journal - Joannes Vermorel's blog. Windows Azure turns 1 in 'anemic' market - salesforce.com, Microsoft, internet, hardware systems, Google, Gartner, Data Center, cloud computing - CIO. Network World - One year after Microsoft introduced Windows Azure, the platform-as-a-service market is only about 1/20 the size of the rival infrastructure-as-a-service market led by Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, and about 1/50 the size of the software-as-a-service market.
While enterprises will spend $112 billion on public cloud services over the next five years, only a small fraction of that amount will be devoted to platform clouds such as Windows Azure, according to Gartner. COMPETITION: Microsoft Windows Azure and Amazon EC2 on collision course. Early adopter spells out Microsoft Azure’s strengths and shortcomings. Network World - With Microsoft celebrating the first birthday of Windows Azure, few people are as well equipped to discuss the cloud platform's strengths and limitations as Joannes Vermorel.
Vermorel, the founder and CEO of a software development company in Paris, France, called Lokad, jumped on the Azure bandwagon well before the service even went online on Feb. 1, 2010. Because Lokad decided to move most of its infrastructure from hosted servers to the Microsoft cloud, Vermorel and colleagues had to rewrite the company's application infrastructure, and began doing so at the beginning of 2009, when Azure was in beta. IN DEPTH: Windows Azure turns 1 in 'anemic' market. VM Who? Microsoft Buys $450M of Novell IP: Cloud «
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