In this year's annual ranking of Iaas providers, AWS and Azure are the only leaders but Gartner says Amazon still has the most advanced and reliable service.

Microsoft Azure is hot on Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) heels, ranking just behind the cloud leader and inside the upper-right corner of Gartner Inc.’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Magic Quadra ...

Research firm Gartner’s annual report card on the public IaaS cloud computing market shows there is one clear leader – Amazon Web Services – and another clear challenger – Microsoft Azure.

A Microsoft spokeswoman in a statement said Azure still offers more than twice as much cloud IaaS compute capacity in use as the aggregate total of the remaining providers in this Magic Quadrant other ...

Microsoft challenged AWS today by making its infrastructure–as-a-service (IaaS) offering generally available and committing to match AWS for the price of storage and compute in the cloud. The ...

Microsoft on Tuesday made a flurry of Windows Azure-related announcements, including the general availability of Windows Azure IaaS (infrastructure as a service), with new VMI (virtual machine ...

In the end, IT professionals generally agree that Azure or AWS are both great choices for IaaS providers. Now it’s up to you to figure out which works best for your organisation. Editor’s note: The ...

A report from IDC estimates that public cloud spending will increase from $70 billion in 2015 to $140.1 billion in 2019 -- that's a lot of potential business up for grabs for service providers. As ...

AWS‘ storage services are the most advanced, mature and longest-running; its Simple Storage Service (S3) launched in fall 2006. Nonetheless, Azure’s storage capabilities are also extremely ...

AWS has enjoyed the largest share of the IaaS market since its rollout in 2006. Today AWS maintains roughly a 33% share, with Microsoft Azure at 16%, and Google Cloud at 8%.

Grab some popcorn. Microsoft has thrown down the proverbial gauntlet for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), upgrading its Azure cloud service for direct competition with Amazon Web Services (AWS).