IDC: “Microsoft’s Azure - We Told You So…”
Last week IDC gave a strong and positive opinion on Windows Azure :
… Yesterday, as we had predicted, Microsoft finally announced its intent to become a major player in the rapidly-expanding cloud services market. Here’s a clip from IDC Directions last March, predicting the “big boots” (including Microsoft’s) that would be jumping into the Cloud Computing world this year. …
We’ve written for several years about the unique opportunity Microsoft has to play a market-maker role in industry’s shift to the Cloud, particularly by helping its thousands of application solution and channel partners migrate to the Software-as-a-Service delivery model. SMBs (including in emerging markets) offer the under-penetrated opportunity that will economically fuel the industry’s transition to the cloud, and Microsoft (with its partners) is, by far, the strongest SMB player. …
…. We’ll be commenting more on the Microsoft announcement, here as well as on idc.com. But my main reactions are: 1) This is good news for Microsoft, its partners and cloud services market growth, and 2) It’s about time - now, Microsoft, keep the pace up. …
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