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Cloud Computing: What is Infrastructure as a Service …
Provisioning processing, storage, networks, and other fundamental computing resources means the consumer of those resources does not manage or control the underlying cloud physical infrastructure but has control over operating systems, storage, deployed applications, and possibly limited control of select networking components.
In defining Infrastructure as a Service we need to drill into specific characteristics that a cloud platform provider must provide to be considered Infrastructure as a Service. This has been no easy task as nearly every cloud platform provider has recently promoted features and services designed to address the infrastructure as a service and cloud computing market. Fortunately, as the technology has evolved over time, a definition of cloud computing has emerged from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that is composed of five essential characteristics, three service models, and four deployment models.
Two dimensions are used to classify the various deployment models (see Figure 1) for cloud computing:
Figure 1 Cloud computing deployment models
Our reference architecture will be based upon the NIST definition as we define the core principals, concepts and patterns used throughout the reference architecture and subsequent implementation guidance in this content series. The reference architecture will consist of reference frame that outlines the overall cloud computing stack based on the NIST definition and defines the core principals, concepts and patterns of a good reference architecture. This is then followed by service delivery guidance to guide the business on solution based delivery of an on-premise private cloud infrastructure.
The reference architecture presented contain practices that are independent of any specific platform provider and generally should be present on any Infrastructure as a Service platform or service engagement available from or through a provider of cloud based computing capability. Where applicable we will link with solution implementation guidance that is based on the use of Microsoft Server products to illustrate the capability discussed in the reference architecture.
The cloud provides options for approach, sourcing, and control. It delivers a well-defined set of services, which are perceived by the customers to have infinite capacity, continuous availability, increased agility, and improved cost efficiency. To achieve these attributes in their customers minds, IT must shift its traditional server-centric approach to a service centric approach. This implies that IT must go from deploying applications in silos with minimal leverage across environments to delivering applications on pre-determined standardized platforms with mutually agreed service levels. A hybrid strategy that uses several cloud options at the same time will become a norm as organizations choose a mix of various cloud models to meet their specific needs.
Cloud options typically are categorized by the following service and sourcing models (see Figure 2 for a comparison):
Software as a Service (SaaS) delivers business processes and applications, such as CRM, collaboration, and e-mail, as standardized capabilities for a usage-based cost at an agreed, business-relevant service level. SaaS provides significant efficiencies in cost and delivery in exchange for minimal customization and represents a shift of operational risks from the consumer to the provider. All infrastructure and IT operational functions are abstracted away from the consumer.
Platform as a Service (PaaS) delivers application execution services, such as application runtime, storage, and integration, for applications written for a pre-specified development framework. PaaS provides an efficient and agile approach to operate scale-out applications in a predictable and cost-effective manner. Service levels and operational risks are shared because the consumer must take responsibility for the stability, architectural compliance, and overall operations of the application while the provider delivers the platform capability (including the infrastructure and operational functions) at a predictable service level and cost.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) abstracts hardware (server, storage, and network infrastructure) into a pool of computing, storage, and connectivity capabilities that are delivered as services for a usage-based (metered) cost. Its goal is to provide a flexible, standard, and virtualized operating environment that can become a foundation for PaaS and SaaS.
IaaS is usually seen to provide a standardized virtual server. The consumer takes responsibility for configuration and operations of the guest Operating System (OS), software, and Database (DB). Compute capabilities (such as performance, bandwidth, and storage access) are also standardized.
Service levels cover the performance and availability of the virtualized infrastructure. The consumer takes on the operational risk that exists above the infrastructure.
Figure 2 Comparison of cloud service models
Deployment models (shared or dedicated, and whether internally hosted or externally hosted) are defined by the ownership and control of architectural design and the degree of available customization. The different deployment models can be evaluated against the three standards - cost, control, and scalability.
Figure 3 Cloud deployment defined by ownership and control
The Public Cloud is a pool of computing services delivered over the Internet. It is offered by a vendor, who typically uses a pay as you go or "metered service" model. Public Cloud Computing has the following potential advantages: you only pay for resources you consume; you gain agility through quick deployment; there is rapid capacity scaling; and all services are delivered with consistent availability, resiliency, security, and manageability. Public Cloud options include:
The private cloud is a pool of computing resources delivered as a standardized set of services that are specified, architected, and controlled by a particular enterprise.
The path to a private cloud is often driven by the need to maintain control of the service delivery environment because of application maturity, performance requirements, industry or goverment regulatory controls, or business differentiation reasons. For example, banks and governments have data security issues that may preclude the use of currently available public cloud services. Private cloud options include:
The array of services delivered by the combination of service and sourcing models can be dizzying. CIOs will need to evaluate their business requirements and the experience of the provider to select the appropriate Cloud models.
Figure 4 Comparison of Cloud Deployment Models
Figure 5 Reference Model - Infrastructure as a Service View
Bill Loeffler is a principal knowledge engineer, ISD IX, in Microsoft's Windows Server & Solutions.
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Cloud Pushing India’s Server Market Growth: IDC – CXOToday.com
According to the latestIDC Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) Quarterly Server Tracker, Q1 2017, the overall server market in India witnessed a quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) increase of 14.2 percent in terms of revenue to reach $215.6 million in Q1 2017 as against $188.8 million in Q4 2016. The x86 server market accounted for 90.7 percent of the overall server revenue during Q1 2017 with growth being majorly driven by spending of public cloud service providers for their data centers.
The public cloud uptake and digital transformation across banking and government verticals are driving the server market in India. The x86 server market in terms of revenue witnessed a year-over-year (YoY) growth of 3.9 percent to reach $195.6 million in Q1 2017 up from $188.2 million during Q1 2016.
The enterprise migration to cloud and role of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, IoT and analytics are attracting the global public cloud providers to expand their footprints in India. Density optimized servers are mostly preferred for cloud workloads which are gaining traction, accounting for QoQ growth of 413.6 percent in terms of revenue for Q1 2017 over previous quarter.
The non x86 server market declined by 22.3 percent YoY in terms of revenue to reach $20.0 million in Q1 2017. In terms of revenue, IBM led the market, accounting for 50 percent of market share, while HPE remained the only vendor who grew its share to 17.8 percent during Q1 2017. In non x86 server market banking industry on its own contribute for 57.3 percent of the revenue, followed by manufacturing and professional services verticals.
Rishu Sharma, Associate Manager, Enterprise Infrastructureadded Professional services, telecommunications and banking remained the top three verticals, accounting for about 70% of the overall market. The market is likely to be driven by Digital initiatives, SAP HANA implementations and cloud workloads in the coming quarters.
[Source: IDC 2017]
In India x86 market,HPEincreased its market share from 37.8 percent in Q4 2016 to 40.3 percent in Q1 2017 in terms of revenue, followed byDellwith a market share of 20.5 percent during Q1 2017.Though the market increased Y-o-Y in terms of revenue most of the major vendors failed to maintain their market share, while ODMs have been successful in growing their market share from 0.3 percent in Q1 2016 to 14.5 percent in Q1 2017 andCiscoincreased its market share to 8.9 percent in Q1 2017, mainly driven by its blade revenue.
ODMs have disrupted the India server market during Q1 2017 by strategically positioning themselves in public cloud and third party data center space and are challenging the established vendors with their attractive pricing, saysHarshal Udatewar, Server Market Analyst, IDC India.
IDC India Forecast:Digital transformation initiatives from Government towards smart cities, skill India, e-records, education, healthcare is likely to drive the market. Also, increased banking focus towards high compute to handle voluminous transaction, analytics, and CRM applications are vital factors leading towards the server market growth in the coming quarters. Professional services including IT, ITeS, third party datacentre and public cloud service providers would continue to fuel the server market growth in India.
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Voices The Tech Take: The cloud still beckons – Accounting Today
The more tech-savvy corners of accounting world are constantly abuzz with talk of the next biggest solution that will change the profession. Over the past decade, the excitement has been the cloud; today, machine learning, artificial intelligence and even robots have piqued the industrys interest. But the reality is that in a nation where one quarter of the population does not have access to broadband Internet, the cloud is a revolution still in the making.
The wide availability of web development tools today has enabled cloud software companies to evangelize the idea that if youre not in the cloud, you should be now. And its true that using online software platforms exclusively has its benefits, like mobility, security and cost savings. But moving to the cloud is not as easy as dumping the old software and selecting a shiny new one.
Many firms have been using on-premise software for years. Not only does this mean loyalty to a known entity, but also significant investment in technology over time. The sunk-cost fallacy sometimes takes over when firms evaluate whether their legacy system is the best choice for them going forward: Even if moving to a cloud-based system will provide better benefits in the future, the financial and emotional outlay can cloud good judgement. Client pushback can be an issue, too, as clients are as likely as anyone else to balk at change.
This is not to say that the cloud is a surefire winning investment. Most cloud-based finance and accounting platforms operate on a subscription basis, which is a whole new way of doing business for firms used to paying up-front prices for their software. It can be difficult to assess whether the ROI will be worth it over time.
The term cloud is used broadly and loosely, but there are basically three ways accounting firms can relate to the cloud: A firms operations can exist and be hosted entirely on their own premises, in which case they are not in the cloud; their software and applications can be hosted offsite with the help of a cloud hosting provider that owns and manages the physical servers on which the data resides; or they can operate completely virtually, using only Web-based software and apps (which in turn are hosted on large cloud computing platforms like Amazon Web Services).
DP&Cs migration to the cloud
Tacoma, Washington-based firm DP&C hired the cloud vendor Cetrom to help it move to a cloud-hosted environmentthe second option mentioned above.
Age has real consequences on how easy it is for a firm to migrate to a cloud environment. DP&C was founded in 1936, in a decade in which exciting technological innovation meant color films and photocopy machines (although to be fair, nuclear fission was discovered in 1939). The firm recently completed its move to a cloud-hosted environment, and is very satisfied with the results. But with 80 years of information contained in both paper and electronic files, data migration is not easy, and the value proposition has to be extremely compelling for a firm to even begin to want to undertake the task.
At DP&C, whose staff members number around 30, working remotely or with clients offsite had become too difficult for it not to seek a better solution. The firm was using a suite of on-premise solutions, but accessing its systems via VPN was slow and cumbersome. So DP&C enlisted the help of technology advisor Donny Shimamoto and his company, Intraprise TechKnowlogies, to document its computer systems, programs and needs, as well as conduct extensive research to find several cloud IT solution providers that serviced accountants. After his evaluation, DP&C selected cloud vendor Cetrom, which develops customized cloud computing configurations customized to CPA firms.
Cetroms custom cloud-hosted solution enabled DP&Cs employees to work from home far more easilywhich has its own set of employee satisfaction-related benefitsand work with clients in the field more efficiently.
We now have laptops that employees can take into the field, but those laptops dont contain any information, Karin Teles, administrator at DP&C, said. All information is on the cloud, so if a laptop is stolen we feel a lot better about that.
Security is another very compelling reason for firms to consider moving to the cloud. Accountants would do well to take to heart the mantra that they are there to help clients do the business theyre good at and not have to focus on accounting; similarly, accounting firms are not tech firms, and outsourcing the management of a firms information systems to a capable technology provider is a smart move. Its a mistake to think on-premise servers are more secure because they can be entirely managed in house; in fact, most software breaches are inside jobs, and cloud hosting companies have far more sophisticated security measures than most in-house IT departments can offer.
Were accountants, not tech wizards, said Teles, who couldnt speak highly enough of the support Cetrom provided the firm during implementation. The tech company had weekly meetings with the firm, and one of Cetroms senior engineers answered any question DP&C had. These meetings occurred over a period of six to eight weeks before transitioning, and the migration took place over a weekend. The firm was closed on a Friday, and up and running on Monday, with Cetrom engineers remaining at the firm for a few days in case of any issues.
Another security benefit of cloud hosting is having servers located in more than one geographical region, which has redundancy benefits in case of an outage or natural disaster. DP&C happens to be located on the Tacoma Fault, an active fault line that poses the risk of earthquakes. Cetrom has its servers in two locations -- Virginia and Coloradonot to mention airlocks (double doors that are both protected by security measures) at every facility entrance and Kevlar-covered walls that provide protection from extremely severe weather events.
Finally, cloud vendors such as Cetrom enable firms to outsource a large chunk of their IT needs. For example, Cetrom provides technical support 24/7/365; and during implementation, it was present from initial set-up to implementation weekend to help the firm through every step.
Migrating to the cloud hasnt changed the fundamental way DP&C operates, Teles said. Its just saved a lot of time, made its staff more efficient, and its data more secure.
Whats the next big technological innovation that will have everyone talking? Lets hope for robots.
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Adoption of cloud services continues to grow among enterprises worldwide for strategic and tactical benefits. While a few years ago, the cloud remained an interesting concept that most organizations were wary about, nearly every organization has migrated a portion of its IT infrastructure into a cloud model. Gartner estimates the worldwide public cloud services market to touch $246.8 billion in 2017, growing 18% since 2016.
However, security remains one of the top concerns for organizations in the cloud. According to a study by Gartner in association with Goldman Sachs and IDC, 74.6% of organizations ranked security significant or very significant among various challenges/issues ascribed to a cloud/on-demand model for IT infrastructure.
An increasingly mobile workforce, ever expanding enterprise perimeter and business drivers for an extended enterprise ecosystem are forcing enterprises to consider moving their core applications and business processes into a cloud-based infrastructure. However, the convenience of scale and cost savings that cloud offers also comes with an added element of cyber risk.
As cyberattacks become more and more sophisticated and inexpensive to execute, the security risk of moving to the cloud becomes more pertinent. In addition, existing solutions available in the market employ conventional perimeter-based defense techniques of cybersecurity, which may not be as effective in securing data in a cloud-based infrastructure.
Protecting a virtualized environment like the cloud requires a similar approach to security. Unlike traditional cybersecurity solutions, a Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) architecture integrates the principles of device authentication, identity-based access and dynamically provisioned connectivity to offer higher resilience against network attacks. Adopting a security model based on the SDP architecture makes it possible for organizations to protect their cloud servers from all kinds of network attacks, including DDoS, Man-in-the-Middle (MitM), Server Query (OWASP 10) as well as Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs).
The need of the hour, however, as cybercriminals employ more sophisticated techniques to launch attacks against enterprises, is for a future-proof cybersecurity approach which can protect enterprises critical infrastructure in the cloud not just from present day cyberattacks, but work just as effectively in the future as well. Blockchain technology offers a much-needed solution to protect against next-generation cyberattacks.
A Blockchain Defined Perimeter (BDP) leverages enhanced SDP architecture, along with blockchain and TLS and SDN technologies, to ring fence an enterprises cloud servers, and only allow authenticated users to gain access to data stored in these cloud servers. At the same time, the BDP also harnesses blockchain based digital signatures to identify and authenticate authorized users and devices, and give them access to data stored in these cloud servers.
The concept of the BDP merges benefits of the SDP like giving centralized control to authorized users via a secure medium with the benefits of blockchain technology like decentralization, cryptographic encryption, immutability and consensus-based control. The resulting architecture offers organizations an opportunity to tackle current as well as future cybersecurity challenges in a smarter, faster and distinctly more effective manner.
Using the BDP, organizations can secure critical information in the cloud, offer cryptographically secure digital identity and access management, and render their cloud servers locked down and invisible. This approach makes it nearly impossible for hackers to detect and launch attacks against enterprises cloud-based infrastructure, provides best-in-class encryption for secure access. In addition, it enables organizations to maintain immutable and tamper-proof logs and records on the blockchain about access to data in the cloud.
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Ransomware and your Servers – Lexology (registration)
It is easy to underestimate the term ransomware as just being another technical term to confuse the lay person in the baffling world of technology jargon.
But the operative word is ransom, recent high-profile cases brought to the worlds attention the seriousness of this form of cyber-attack. As large organisation are held to ransom, it highlights that cyber extortion is a serious threat which can cause great uncertainty for any business.
With Ransomware servers on your own premises are the primary target because of their vulnerability. Your staff are busy and are not trained on cyber security and cyber criminals are cunning. It is very easy for any one of us to make an innocent mistake that can have disastrous consequences for your business.
Ransomware can insinuate itself into your system when one of your staff opens an e-mail, it installs a small application that starts encrypting all your files. This means you cannot access your own data, even though the server might be standing safely on your premises. The only way you can unencrypt your data is by paying a ransom to get a code that unencrypts the files.
While this sounds simple enough it can be disastrous. You need to communicate with criminals via the dark web and you often required to pay in bit coins. All of this takes a long time to figure it out and there is no guarantee that you will get the code in the end. It can take days or weeks to resolve and your firm can be at a standstill while it occurs.
The instances of ransomware are growing as these cyber criminals are successful and grow more brazen. If running on in-house servers, the chances of it happening to your businesses is on the increase.
Your clients data is precious to them, and to you. It is better to prevent the problem than deal with it when it happens.
For law firms, adopting a cloud based case management system means your client and matter information is stored in high security data centres and not your on-premise servers. Your system will be protected against Ransomware without you having to worry about it.
To remain on an existing ageing on-premise server configuration, you become more and more vulnerable to a Ransomware attack, because it is hosted at your office on your own servers you dont have the protections of an isolated cloud server.
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Micron Forecasts Strong Quarter on Cloud and Mobile Demand – New York Times
Micron, which gets more than 60 percent of its revenue from the sale of DRAM chips, said DRAM prices jumped 14 percent in the third quarter.
"Near term it is going to be PC servers and ... mobile is going to be positive for them, particularly with the launch of iPhone 8 coming," Betsy Van Hees, an analyst with Loop Capital said.
"But, it is going to be the cloud that is going to be the next leg of the growth story for them."
Worldwide PC shipments rose 0.6 percent in the first quarter of 2017, seeing growth for the first time in five years, market research firm IDC said earlier this month. (http://bit.ly/2pbj40c)
The company said it is also seeing increasing demand for its chips from the automobile market.
Micron expects revenue between $5.70 billion to $6.10 billion and a profit of $1.73 to $1.87 per share for the fourth quarter.
Analysts were expecting revenue of $5.62 billion and a profit of $1.57 per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
The Boise, Idaho-based company also reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit and revenue.
Net income attributable to Micron was $1.65 billion, or $1.40 per share, in the third quarter ended June 1, compared with a net loss of $215 million, or 21 cents per share, a year earlier.
Revenue nearly doubled to $5.57 billion.
Excluding items, the company earned $1.62 per share. Analysts had expected a profit of $1.51 per share and revenue of $5.41 billion.
(Reporting by Rishika Sadam in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)
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CloudRanger Unveils New Visual Server Management Platform for Most Secure, Economical Data Storage – Benzinga
First-of-its-kind software features graphical scheduling for Amazon Web Services server usage and automated backups
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) June 28, 2017
CloudRanger, the simple backup solution for Amazon Web Services (AWS), today announced the launch of its newest software, which simplifies users' experience and provides more control over the cloud. The new version offers users effortless scheduling and backup policies, while providing a bird's eye view of the entire server system from one easy-to-use dashboard, ultimately saving users time and money.
"As everything begins to move to the cloud, we see increasingly more cloud users, including many without a technical background. With this shift, visual server management will quickly become essential, as we will see cloud usage surge across industries," said CloudRanger Chief Executive Officer, Dave Gildea. "When we set out to design the new software, we spent a significant amount of time talking with our customers, and based on their feedback, we completely scrapped our old software and built this new version from scratch."
Key features of CloudRanger's new platform include:
"While cloud technology continues to make our lives easier and information more accessible, relying on the cloud can also leave you open to disaster, such as outages or cyber attacks. The only way to safeguard your data is with reliable backups and a disaster recovery plan," explained Dan Creviston, CloudRanger Chief Product Officer. "Not only is CloudRanger's new software easy to use, it provides the utmost security by ensuring data is consistently backed up and saved in multiple locations."
CloudRanger's proprietary scheduling and backups across an entire server system are easy to understand for even non-technical users, while the bird's eye view of the entire server system and graphical scheduling module provide a usability for AWS that's not even available from Amazon itself.
"Our goal in developing this new software was to make cloud management simple and accessible to everyone, across all industries," added Creviston. "This version is not only more streamlined and user-friendly, but ultimately gives the user more control over their cloud."
At the time of its software release, CloudRanger is one of the first companies worldwide to be included in Amazon's SaaS Contracts on the AWS Marketplace. Launched in late April 2017, AWS Marketplace SaaS Contracts offers more options and flexibility for both customers and sellers in the AWS Marketplace.
In addition to its newly designed software, CloudRanger has released CloudRanger Instance Type Availability Service (CRITAS) free of charge on Github.com. CRITAS provides a constantly updated list of all available instances in AWS across all regions, and is available as a JSON file on S3. About CloudRanger CloudRanger delivers cloud server management software for businesses, MSPs and enterprises. Its easy-to-use graphical interface offers users scheduling and backup policies to save time and money. An overall view of the entire server system gives users the most control over their cloud, while delivering enhanced disaster recovery management. CloudRanger is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Technology Partner. Clients include HP, NASCAR and MetLife. To learn more, visit http://www.cloudranger.com.
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Google deal with Nutanix shows its cloud strategy is broadening – CNBC
Google is ready to accept that some big enterprises need help getting their critical workloads to the cloud.
Its parent Alphabet on Wednesday announced a partnership with Nutanix, whose data center hardware and software provides a hybrid approach that bridges the gap between on-premise servers and machines in big cloud data centers.
The deal is another indication that Nutanix, which held its stock market debut last year, is now embracing the public cloud as a viable infrastructure choice. Simultaneously it reflects how Google is becoming more receptive to the needs of enterprises.
"With public cloud, you have to meet them where they are -- that's becoming increasingly clear," Nan Boden, Google's head of global alliances, told CNBC in an interview. She said that in recent years Google had not cut major deals with data center hardware providers.
In the public cloud, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services represent Google's biggest competition. Microsoft has been working to make its public cloud and private cloud tools match, while AWS has developed hardware and even trucks to facilitate the migration of data into its cloud.
Google, to date, has been less active in supporting cloud architectures that involve companies' existing on-premises infrastructure.
Nutanix does intend to support application deployment on AWS and Azure, although at this point it's working most closely with at Google.
Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey told CNBC that he's been particularly impressed with the head of Google's cloud, Diane Greene, who was previously co-founder and CEO of VMware.
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Microsoft and Box Ink Yet Another Cloud Partnership – Fortune
It doesn't look like Box has ever met a cloud provider it doesn't like. On Tuesday, the company, which sells cloud-based file storage and synchronization services to businesses, named Microsoft Azure as a "strategic cloud platform."
In this case, that means Box ( box ) and Microsoft ( msft ) will both sell "Box on Azure" to business customers around the world, according to a Box spokeswoman. She added that this is the first time Box is "going to market" with one of the big four public cloud providers. That may be, but it certainly has cozied up to all of them.
Microsoft Azure is known as a public clouda huge aggregation of servers, storage, and networkingowned and operated by Microsoft at data centers worldwide. It sells those resources to many customers. Azure competes with Amazon ( amzn ) Web Services, Google ( googl ) Cloud Platform, and IBM ( ibm ) SoftLayer in this booming market, driven by many businesses that don't want to invest more in their own data centers
Related: Welcome to the Era of Data Center Consolidation
Box started out 12 years in the pre-cloud era and so fielded its own data centers. In the intervening years, it's partnered with AWS and other cloud providers in many ways. Box CEO Aaron Levie once told Fortune that if Box had started later, it would have stayed out of the data center business altogether.
Two years ago, Box launched a partnership with IBM under which it uses IBM cloud data centers in some regions where customer data must remain in the country of origin. It subsequently announced a similar deal with AWS to use that cloud's facilities in Canada and Australia.
Related: Box CEO Says Security Concerns Drive Big Companies
Box also works with Google, generally seen as the third largest cloud provider after AWS and Microsoft, to integrate box storage with Google Apps.
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Under terms of this latest Microsoft collaboration, Microsoft and Box sales teams will get credit for selling Box on Azurea key motivator for salespeople who must make quotas. Box will also make use of Azure's artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning perks, the Box spokeswoman said. Box will also "explore ways" to integrate with Azure's computing capabilities.
Box already works with Microsoft to integrate Box storage with Microsoft Office 365 applications. And, for the record, Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage competes with Box storage. So this is a complicated world with companies partnering in some arenas and competing in others.
Microsoft, like Amazon and IBM, has been wooing third-party Internet software providerscompanies like Salesforce ( crm ) , Tableau ( data ) , Workday ( wday ) , and yes, Boxto run their respective public cloud data centers. The competition is fierce.
Last year, when asked by Fortune whether it is hard for a company like Box to rely on big cloud providers that also compete with his company, he replied: "You know what's harder? Building data centers!"
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Learn details of the global cloud servers industry – WhaTech
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It is one report that hasn't shied away from taking a critical look at the current status and future outlook for the consumption/sales of these products, by the end users and applications. Not forgetting the market share control and growth rate of Cloud Servers Industry, per application.
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1 Cloud Servers Market Overview
2 Global Cloud Servers Market Competitions by Manufacturers
3 Global Cloud Servers Capacity, Production, Revenue (Value) by Region (2012-2017)
4 Global Cloud Servers Supply (Production), Consumption, Export, Import by Region (2012-2017)
5 Global Cloud Servers Production, Revenue (Value), Price Trend by Type
6 Global Cloud Servers Market Analysis by Application
7 Global Cloud Servers Manufacturers Profiles/Analysis
8 Cloud Servers Manufacturing Cost Analysis
9 Industrial Chain, Sourcing Strategy and Downstream Buyers
10 Marketing Strategy Analysis, Distributors/Traders
11 Market Effect Factors Analysis
12 Global Cloud Servers Market Forecast (2017-2022)
13 Research Findings and Conclusion
14 Appendix
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