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According to a sample of our readers, more than half of Belgian companies are Microsoft Azure customers. A multi-cloud strategy is not yet the norm in the Belgian
According to a sample of our readers, more than half of Belgian companies are Microsoft Azure customers. A multi-cloud strategy is not yet the norm in the Belgian IT market.
Many business processes today take place in the cloud. The cloud offers more flexibility, scalability, security, and remote availability than running everything on a local server. The global cloud industry is characterized by a three-way battle between Amazon Web Services (better known as AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. The analysis agency Statista assigns AWS a market share of 34 percent, followed by Microsoft and Google with 21 and 11 percent.
Specific market figures for Belgium are difficult to find. That’s why this month we ran a sample of our readership to find out what the market relations are like between the big hyperscalers in the Belgian IT market. 123 respondents took part in the survey.
A convincing winner emerged: Microsoft Azure. After all, 57 percent of the participants stated that they purchased cloud services from Microsoft. First pursuer AWS is severely disadvantaged at 17 percent. While AWS can claim to be the undisputed leader on a global scale, their share of the Belgian IT market is much smaller.
Under Microsoft, the competition is close together. Google Cloud is breathing down Amazon’s neck with 16 percent. The fourth major player, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, has a 12 percent share. Oracle is getting closer and closer to the big three, at least on the Belgian IT market. 19 percent of those surveyed ticked the answer option “Other”. This can include smaller, on-premises cloud providers as well as private cloud platforms.
We left the possibility of multiple entries. We wanted to find out whether the idea of a multicloud has also caught on with Belgian companies. More and more companies are distributing their data and workloads across multiple cloud platforms, be it with different public hyperscalers or a combination of public and private clouds, in order to be less tied to one provider.
This seems rather unusual in the Belgian IT market. Roughly one in ten respondents reported being on multiple cloud platforms. Usually these are two different providers, some exceptions dare to work with three or more parties.
Source: IT Daily
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