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Battle for Market Share in Cloud Platform Services

Geoff Riley

27th March 2016

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It would be easy to assume that the internet behemoth Google would stand head and shoulders above others in providing cloud platform services. In fact Amazon Web Services is - for the moment - well out ahead of Microsoft, IBM and Google. That however might be about the change. By the end of 2017, Google plans to build 12 new huge state of the art data centers around the world in an investment of more than $10 billion. Google has just released a video in that takes you through its data center in The Dalles, Oregon.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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