Sentences with phrase «public cloud players»

And, insult to injury, many of the major public cloud players run commodity hardware made to their specifications by no - name hardware makers — not IBM, EMC, HP, or Cisco — making the transition even more difficult for the old guard.

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.

Three years ago, Gartner cloud analyst Lydia Leong took a look at what Verizon was planning and was impressed with its ambitious scope, although even then she was unsure if Verizon could take on the big public cloud players led by Amazon Web Services.

The move is interesting given that Verizon at one time was a public cloud player with its acquisition of Terremark.

Not exact matches

Given the resources needed to run the massive data centers required by public cloud providers, most observers say the three key players are Amazon, Microsoft (msft) and Google (goog).

This is further evidence that telecom players have a tough time competing in the massive public cloud space, where Amazon, Google, and Microsoft spend multiple billions of dollars a year on key infrastructure.

Microsoft (msft) joining the CNCF is also interesting because it leaves Amazon (amzn), the largest player in the booming public cloud market, as the only major cloud computing player not in the group.

But despite its best efforts, VMware itself is not a big player in the brave new world of public cloud computing, the shared data center infrastructure pioneered by Amazon Web Services (amzn), which is now facing heated competition from Microsoft (msft) and Google (googl).

In a February report, Synergy Research Group noted, «Amazon Web Services (AWS) is maintaining its dominant share of the burgeoning public cloud services market at over 40 percent, while the three main chasing cloud providers — Microsoft, Google and IBM — are gaining ground but at the expense of smaller players in the market.»

It is also fair to point out that this move continues a three - or four - year long period in which the biggest public cloud providers got bigger by virtue of massive spending on their own data center infrastructure and smaller players scrambled to stay relevant.

The great unmentioned player here is Amazon Web Services, which dominates the public cloud infrastructure space to date.