TOP 10 – CLOUD PLATFORMS

REVENUE: US $ 245.1BN( MICROSOFT, 12 MONTHS TO JUNE 2024) EMPLOYEES: 228,000( MICROSOFT, ~ 1,500 SPECIFICALLY ON AZURE) CTO: MARK RUSSINOVICH FOUNDED: 2010( AZURE) WATCH NOW Microsoft Azure overview

Powered by its“ better together” strategy, Azure leverages its incumbency in the enterprise with products like Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 to create a frictionless on-ramp to its cloud services. This is augmented by its strategic partnership with OpenAI, which gives Azure customers integrated access to premier LLMs through the Azure OpenAI Service. Its adaptive cloud strategy, enabled by Azure Arc, allows organisations to extend Azure’ s management, security and AI capabilities to their own data centres, other clouds and edge locations.

technologymagazine. com 35