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Who's number 3? Who am I missing?
by nemothekid 7y ago
Who's number 3? Who am I missing?
- hwbehrens 7y agoGartner ranked Aliyun as the third largest provider in 1Q19.
- benburleson 7y agoAs a fulltime web dev, I had a guess of who's cloud that was, but had to look the name up. They may have numbers due to Chinese usage, but no Western company is going to use Chinese hosting, ever.
- johnbellone 7y agoGartner isn't a source that I'd use as a basis for it (or honestly, anything). I would take a look at annual revenue for all of these businesses.
- cnlwsu 7y agoGartner ranks companies by how much they pay Gartner for "advisors"
- cthalupa 7y agoDifferent articles and sources give different numbers, so don't take this as gospel, but: IBM's *-as-a-service ARR is larger than Google Cloud's. Oracle claims theirs is too, but my understanding is that they roll a lot of their licensing costs into the same reporting, so it's hard to tell for sure.
- NathanKP 7y agoFrom what I have seen Alibaba cloud is #3. Don't forget that China is a huge market, and it is very hard for Western companies to be successful there. Alibaba has China government backing and that relationship is allowing them a lot of access in China
- iudqnolq 7y agoFor example, AWS China and Azure Operated by 21Vianet (official name of Azure China) are operated independently by Chinese companies, and have incomplete integrations with the rest of their services, because of how hard Chinese govt compliance is. And GCP only has a location in Hong Kong, which means Chinese users can mostly access it but it's unreliable https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/migration/issues/649 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/migration/issues/649 This gives Alibaba a huge advantage domestically.
- mensetmanusman 7y agoAli, Funny that China has a new law allowing them access to any data stored there, so it may stick to operating only in China...