Sentences with phrase «public cloud giant»

In that market it must contend not only with other telco - rooted companies --[company] CenturyLink [/ company], [company] AT&T [/ company] et al — which are trying to pitch the same customers but with public cloud giant [company] Amazon [/ company] Web Services, which has proved serious about winning corporate workloads.

Amazon on Thursday said that Amazon Web Services revenue is continuing to grow strongly, with an annual run rate now of about $ 16 billion, although the company noted that revenue growth for the public cloud giant has slowed down.

Clearly EMC, like every other IT incumbent, has one nervous eye on Amazon Web Services, the public cloud giant that became a huge success largely because software developers saw it as a cheap, easy way to get the resources they need to build and test their products.

Microsoft is already in the big three of public cloud giants, but may try to double up on its position the behind leader of the pack, Amazon Web Services.

Large multinational customers prefer a provider that can give them infrastructure at national or global scale, and if you're a company with one or two regional locations, you're mostly stuck competing with public cloud giants like Amazon and Microsoft for the dollars of local small and mid-size businesses.

Not exact matches

The networking giant said on Tuesday that it will pay $ 260 million for cloud computing startup CliQr, whose technology lets corporate software run more efficiently across internal data centers and public cloud data centers operated by the likes of Amazon (amzn), Microsoft (msft), and Google (goog).

However, the company will consider «the usual suspects» among the giant public cloud players — if demand warrants it, Darren Roos, president of the company's S / 4Hana business unit tells Fortune.

Chinese retail giant Alibaba (baba), which is backing its Aliyun public cloud both in and outside of China, made its first appearance as did Oracle (orcl), the business software giant that arrived late to the public cloud market.

On top of running its giant e-commerce business, it also owns the largest public cloud computing service in the world.

Among the incredible Hubble cloud images, none has been received with greater public acclaim than the detailed 1995 snapshot of newborn stars emerging from giant pillars of gas and dust inside the Eagle Nebula.

This fall, several news outlets (working independently) broke the news that oil giant ExxonMobil (a Private Enterprise Council Member of ALEC) had known as early as the 1970s that carbon dioxide emissions were fueling the greenhouse effect — and yet the company continued to wage a political and media campaign to cloud the public's understanding of climate science.