“The information technology market is going to increasingly gravitate towards a small number of hyperscale cloud providers,” he said.
Gartner recently “identified three top-tier companies — Amazon, Microsoft and Google … and it listed only three others, Alibaba, Oracle and IBM, as their competitors.”
“It’s a two-horse race between Amazon and Microsoft at this stage,” said Gartner analyst Raj Bala. “Google is making headway, nipping at their heels, but it’s still behind the leaders.”
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