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The COO of the OpenStack Foundation took aim at Amazon as “the monolith in the room” today, before claiming its power to dominate the future of the cloud was already on the wane. However Mark Collier delivered little reassurance to other public cloud vendors in his speech, with Azure and Google not even meriting a mention, …

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    "with Azure and Google not even meriting a mention, despite the billions they have poured into challenging AWS in the hypercloud space"

    Google are going nowhere in the cloud space, but Azure is now bigger than S3 in terms of revenue - and Microsoft turn a healthy profit on it despite investing billions in new datacentres. A feat that Amazon seem unable to match...

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      None of which matters to anyone except Americans. American legal attack surface = NOPE.

      Openstack is the future because Openstack allows local and regional providers to run clouds that have zero American legal attack surface. And they can do so without being utterly fucking ruined by Microsoft, who is desperately trying to put and SPs that might actually be able to compete with Azure out of business.

      "Mobile first, cloud first"...but customers, partners, and staff last Judging from Microsoft's half-hearted change of heart regarding VDI we might see a pivot on this attitude in about 8 years,..after the competition has started to really make a serious dent and very solid real-world alternatives are available for cheap and easy off-the-shelf consumption.

      Microsoft may well make billions on it's cloud, but there is a hard upper limit on it's growth. One imposed by it's own decisions and it's inability to recognize the need to build trust. A loaded gun pointed at your head coupled with a demand for $500 per user per month to unlock all the goodies isn't the way to build that trust.

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        "None of which matters to anyone except Americans. American legal attack surface = NOPE."

        Doesn't matter to the FTSE 100 I work for who are moving everything they can to Azure - we simply use this wonderful new invention called 'data encryption' when we need to...

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          An FTSE 100 company has enough lawyers that they don't need to fear governments or their own customers. They don't have to do the right thing, and never do unless absolutely forced. They do whatever it is that gets the executives the best perks, period.

          All you've proven is that Microsoft's sales teams are the most willing and able to bribe. FTSE 100 companies will gladly break every law there is to break until the fines rise to the point that executive salaries are impacted more than the perks provide.

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