This is also the first time Google has publicly commented on Microsoft’s cloud computing behavior. Regarding some of Microsoft’s upcoming agreements with European cloud service providers, Zaffrey believes that these deals do not address broader concerns about Microsoft’s licensing terms. To this end, Google has raised the issue with the EU antitrust agency and urged the EU to conduct a thorough investigation.

In response, Microsoft referred to a blog post the company published last May. At the time, Microsoft President Brad Smith said that Microsoft was No. 2 in cloud services, with a slightly over 20% share of the global cloud services market (based on revenue).

“We are committed to the growth and success of the European cloud community,” a Microsoft spokesperson said.

In the multibillion-dollar cloud computing market, Microsoft and Google are engaged in a fierce competition. Currently, Google lags behind Amazon and Microsoft in this market share.

Microsoft has reached preliminary agreements with some of its smaller European cloud rivals in which it agrees to adjust its cloud computing practices, which in turn will withdraw their earlier antitrust complaints, a person familiar with the matter said.

Obviously, Microsoft’s move is to avoid the EU’s investigation. In March last year, Microsoft’s cloud computing business received complaints from three European competitors, claiming that Microsoft had disrupted fair competition in the cloud computing service market and limited consumer choice. The competitors say Microsoft’s contracts and business practices make its cloud-computing services expensive.

In this regard, Zaffrey said in an interview today: “Microsoft has definitely taken a very anti-competitive stance in the field of cloud computing. They are taking advantage of the dominance of Office 365 and Windows to bundle their Azure and other cloud services in the cloud. Together, it makes it difficult for customers to make a choice.”

“Many of our customers say Microsoft Cloud has bundling practices and restrictions on pricing and licensing that make it difficult for them to choose another provider,” Zeffery said.

Zaffrey also said Microsoft could only benefit from individual deals with several smaller European cloud providers. “They’re selectively buying out those who complain, rather than making the terms available to everyone,” Zeffery said.

“My point with the regulators is that they should look at the issue holistically, and even if one or two suppliers might settle, it doesn’t address the broader issue,” Zeffery said.

Finally, Zeffery also refuted the claim that “this issue is just a spat between Google and Microsoft.” “It’s not a question of ‘Does Google have anything to do with’? It’s a question of ‘cloud.’ The cloud allows you to deploy software in an open, flexible way, giving customers more choice, and It’s easier to run these software anywhere.”

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Gartner expects all segments to experience growth in 2023, with end-user spending on infrastructure as a service (IaaS) expected to see the largest growth of 29.8 percent in 2023.

Gartner expects that the segments most impacted by inflation will be Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS), given the staffing challenges and focus on protecting margins, but both segments will continue to grow. Gartner forecasts PaaS to grow 23.2% and SaaS to grow 16.8% in 2023.

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VMware services automatically create user-specific VMware environments based on VMware SDDC software on dedicated physical servers. Users can flexibly configure and manage their own VMware environment, and create custom-sized virtual machines based on VMware vSphere to deploy and run workloads.

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VMware vSphere software runs on dedicated physical servers, fully supports VMware vMotion, vSphere High Availability and other features, and supports mutual access between workloads in the dedicated VMware environment and Alibaba Cloud services.

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Adopting VMware NSX as a network solution supports more agile business-oriented network definition, provides prerequisites for virtual machine cloud-to-cloud migration, supports VMware virtual machine security micro-segmentation, and border security for business and management traffic entering and leaving SDDC protection.

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Using the software-defined enterprise-level storage solution VMware vSAN, a storage resource pool shared by all hosts in the cluster is built on the local all-flash storage of physical servers, with high reliability and high performance.

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