Ed Maguire, Analyst at CLSA, LLC, says he believes platform as a service is the layer in cloud technology that has outsized strategic importance. He says anything that resided in the infrastructure-as-a-service layer was most likely to be subject to forces of commoditization and price pressure, while spending migrates to applications and analytics above the platform layer.
“So we’ve identified a couple of key players and characteristics for winners in the Platform-as-a-Service landscape,” Maguire says. “It’s critical to be able to port applications from on premise to public cloud with minimal rewriting code. This point is something that Microsoft understood very, very early on with Azure.”
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Maguire says he likes Microsoft precisely because of its vision around the evolution of cloud computing.
“[Microsoft’s vision] was attuned to large companies that had a multinational presence that had a variety of needs to run their applications either in a cloud or on-premise, and being able to allow that portability is very important,” he says.
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