logo
close icon

It’s Microsft vs Google in cloud services for India

Firstpost.technology,

With more and more large Indian corporations turning to cloud services, technology giants Microsoft and Google have started competing each other to grab a share of the market.

According to this report in the Economic Times, the market is expected to grow by $15-18 billion by 2020, and both companies want a larger slice of the pie.

Google is already fairly active in the space, having already sold cloud solutions to Flipkart, Indiamart and the State Bank of India.

However an undaunted Microsoft Managing Director Sanket Akerkar told the Economic Times, “They (Google) are largely an advertising company, which is consumer oriented. They have taken their consumer assets and are trying to figure out how they can get into the enterprise business It sort of doesn’t work. We have taken our enterprise class and put those on cloud; we think that’s a better approach.”

Google also hit back however, with its India head Rajan Anandan saying, ” “We have 2,00,000 businesses that use Google cloud solutions. We have orders of magnitude bigger than Microsoft”.

Read more at http://www.firstpost.com/tech/its-microsft-vs-google-in-cloud-services-for-india-259156.html

Latest Posts

IndiaMART Affiliate Programme: The side hustle you need

Posted on February 6, 2025

The rise of India’s content creator economy has been nothing less than revolutionary. From just 962,000 influencers in 2020, the creator economy has expanded to...

Read More

Budget 2025: What it Means for Your Small Business

Posted on February 3, 2025

Are you a small business, who switched on the TV this Saturday but ended up getting lost in all the long budget announcements? The only...

Read More

GST Registration Process: A complete step by step guide...

Posted on February 3, 2025

If you are running a business in India, GST registration is not an alien word anymore. Any business that supplies services with an annual turnover...

Read More