#3 Microsoft is staking out its own turf

Microsoft has its own big enterprise cloud called Azure. This is a Platform as a Service cloud that is famous with many developers who write apps using the coding tool by Microsoft. Azure further took itself into the IaaS market by allowing users run Linux on its cloud and also promising to match Amazon’s low prices.
In addition Microsoft offers many of its enterprise apps over the cloud, right from its SQL Server database to Microsoft Office 365.

#2 VMware going deeper into all things

Till this year it was known that VMware did not offer cloud services at all. It only gave software called vCloud for building clouds.
VMware is one of the biggest players in the cloud software arena, with competitions against called OpenStack which is run by a group of vendors including IBM, Rackspace and HP.

However in March, there were some changes in VMware as it announced to launch its own public cloud. This could be interesting as VMware says that, about 200 service providers offer clouds built on vCloud, such as Verizon and CSC. Now it’s time for VMware to carefully compete against them.

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