Here’s what stood out to me in Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s latest blog post about how the team is boosting Azure reliability.
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Its most recent earnings announcement marks the first time that Microsoft cloud revenue exceeds one-third of the company’s total revenue, at 35%.
As SAP reports Q3 cloud-revenue growth of 37% to $2 billion, the Microsoft deal “contributed 18 percentage points to the 39% new cloud bookings growth.”
The cloud revenue for #1 Microsoft will exceed the combined total of four high-growth competitors’ cloud revenue for the quarter ended 9/30.