Cloud Industry Overview
Each cloud technology player has their own way of employing cloud technology having several niche use cases for targeting specific business needs and industries. The major cloud providers help new businesses by providing an entry point into utilizing a seemingly unlimited amount of on-demand web based computing power and have built a solid framework to ease the transition for existing businesses to migrate data centers to the cloud. Microsoft serves the entrenched enterprise Fortune 500 companies that want to migrate their existing tech frameworks into a familiar model for hosting their computing needs using frameworks they are already accustomed with. Microsoft deals with big players in all industries that have the ability to expend capital to meet their cloud computing need once a technology or framework is standardized across all cloud players. Microsoft depends on cloud technology internally to drive their own cloud based offering...