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Only service I have really seen being used is O365 emails. Rest of the Azure is not really being used by most of our customer. They are still dipping their toes

Only service I have really seen being used is O365 emails. Rest of the Azure is not really being used by most of our customer. They are still dipping their toes in water so yeah it look like smoke and mirrors. At least in my anecdotal experience. Edit: I don't have an issue with down votes but seems like some people are angry. I just shared my experience.Can Microsoft show what is the revenue growth in absolute terms.They are including Azure credits into the Enterprise License Agreement and calling it cloud revenue. Availability of free credits does not translate into adoption necessarily. Enterprise customers are still evaluating the how costs will look like over a period of time.

jbigelow76 10y ago
Google reported revenue of $20.76 billion last quarter, but I don't use Google as my search engine, so I'm pretty skeptical of this number.
- drieddust 10y ago
  You should be if Google suddenly starts reporting revenue growth in "Self Driving Cars" category and their total revenue still stays $20.76 billion.
csydas 10y ago
Virtualization is taking to the cloud in a big way this year and next. Most of my clients are pricing out between azure, aws, and local providers/partners for their cloud VM needs. Vmware just announced a deal with Amazon I believe and windows server 2016 comes with gobs of stuff that's pretty clearly meant for being hosted up on azure. It's not there yet for many since the WAN component is still too weak for many companies to migrate but when the need to remake comes up I'm seeing it in the cloud more and more, or dummy drops to the cloud. (Usb backup on premise and deliver the drive to cloud provider.)
- drieddust 10y ago
  Agreed Windows 2016 could be a game changer.
akg_67 10y ago
IMO, Enterprise adoption of Azure is growing specially enterprises that rely on Microsoft stack exclusively. In last quarter, I personally suggested to few friends at Microsoft stack dependent companies to migrate to Azure instead of mucking around with colo hardware, VMware, VM management, licensing etc. for external facing services. It is a change for me. Previously I used to suggest moving to Linux/open source stack to migrate to VPS providers or AWS.
- drieddust 10y ago
  > IMO, Enterprise adoption of Azure is growing specially enterprises that rely on Microsoft stack exclusively. Sure it is, I have no doubts about it's growing use. But that use is still in nascent stage so when Microsoft is reporting a sudden increase in cloud revenue is actually nothing but smart manipulation of ELA terms. In reality Enterprise Customer aren't cloud ready . Simply running on premises virtual machines into cloud does not result in any benefits. Enterprise customers are not yet there to realize the cloud benefits like on-demand compute, containerization, resource right sizing. Though Windows 2016 might tip that balance.
- Spooky23 10y ago
  That may be true, but for large companies they changed the business model where large account resellers would bid under cost to sell EAs, etc. They effectively raised the cost significantly for perpetual licensing/SA to push you into services agreements. Simultaneously, you get favorable terms (ie. anything other than MSRP) only if you commit long-term. Upon renewal they try to make you give up your right to transition back to perpetual licensing for Office. So my bet is this is bullshit, shifting office dollars to O365, which include plans where you're just renting Excel.

jbigelow76 10y ago

Google reported revenue of $20.76 billion last quarter, but I don't use Google as my search engine, so I'm pretty skeptical of this number.

drieddust 10y ago
You should be if Google suddenly starts reporting revenue growth in "Self Driving Cars" category and their total revenue still stays $20.76 billion.

csydas 10y ago

Virtualization is taking to the cloud in a big way this year and next. Most of my clients are pricing out between azure, aws, and local providers/partners for their cloud VM needs. Vmware just announced a deal with Amazon I believe and windows server 2016 comes with gobs of stuff that's pretty clearly meant for being hosted up on azure. It's not there yet for many since the WAN component is still too weak for many companies to migrate but when the need to remake comes up I'm seeing it in the cloud more and more, or dummy drops to the cloud. (Usb backup on premise and deliver the drive to cloud provider.)

drieddust 10y ago
Agreed Windows 2016 could be a game changer.

akg_67 10y ago

IMO, Enterprise adoption of Azure is growing specially enterprises that rely on Microsoft stack exclusively. In last quarter, I personally suggested to few friends at Microsoft stack dependent companies to migrate to Azure instead of mucking around with colo hardware, VMware, VM management, licensing etc. for external facing services. It is a change for me. Previously I used to suggest moving to Linux/open source stack to migrate to VPS providers or AWS.

drieddust 10y ago
> IMO, Enterprise adoption of Azure is growing specially enterprises that rely on Microsoft stack exclusively. Sure it is, I have no doubts about it's growing use. But that use is still in nascent stage so when Microsoft is reporting a sudden increase in cloud revenue is actually nothing but smart manipulation of ELA terms. In reality Enterprise Customer aren't cloud ready . Simply running on premises virtual machines into cloud does not result in any benefits. Enterprise customers are not yet there to realize the cloud benefits like on-demand compute, containerization, resource right sizing. Though Windows 2016 might tip that balance.
Spooky23 10y ago
That may be true, but for large companies they changed the business model where large account resellers would bid under cost to sell EAs, etc. They effectively raised the cost significantly for perpetual licensing/SA to push you into services agreements. Simultaneously, you get favorable terms (ie. anything other than MSRP) only if you commit long-term. Upon renewal they try to make you give up your right to transition back to perpetual licensing for Office. So my bet is this is bullshit, shifting office dollars to O365, which include plans where you're just renting Excel.