Apple and Google have signed an agreement on hosting iCloud data. Part of the Cloud Apple will now be stored on the Google Cloud Platform.
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Google Cloud Platform: cloud platform that rises
So far, Apple was using mainly the services of a number of cloud computing , Amazon and Amazon Web Services. According to a report from Morgan Stanley, 90% of the cloud activity was entrusted to Amazon Apple and iPhone maker would have paid a billion dollars for the use of AWS (Amazon Web Services) in 2015.
For Google, this contract should enable it to double its revenues were estimated at approximately $ 500 million in 2015. These figures are taken with caution insofar as the search giant does not disclose figures for its Cloud Platform Service .
This is the second time in the space of a few months that Google is taking its share to competitor Amazon, Spotify had indeed announced the relocation of its entire infrastructure to Cloud Platform.
With a market share estimated at 4% in late 2015, the Mountain View company remains far from its Amazon competitor in the market cloud computing , it is leading with 31% market share.
A short-term agreement?
If Apple seems to have sought to make savings with this agreement and to reduce its dependence on Amazon, it could be short-lived. Indeed, Apple needs to build new datactenters the United States (Arizona) and Europe ( Ireland and Denmark ) which should allow the company to Tim Cook to self-host, thus passing the services of its competitors Amazon Microsoft and Google.
On the side of Cupertino, the project is known under the name "Project McQueen" .
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Google Cloud Platform: cloud platform that rises
So far, Apple was using mainly the services of a number of cloud computing , Amazon and Amazon Web Services. According to a report from Morgan Stanley, 90% of the cloud activity was entrusted to Amazon Apple and iPhone maker would have paid a billion dollars for the use of AWS (Amazon Web Services) in 2015.
For Google, this contract should enable it to double its revenues were estimated at approximately $ 500 million in 2015. These figures are taken with caution insofar as the search giant does not disclose figures for its Cloud Platform Service .
This is the second time in the space of a few months that Google is taking its share to competitor Amazon, Spotify had indeed announced the relocation of its entire infrastructure to Cloud Platform.
With a market share estimated at 4% in late 2015, the Mountain View company remains far from its Amazon competitor in the market cloud computing , it is leading with 31% market share.
A short-term agreement?
If Apple seems to have sought to make savings with this agreement and to reduce its dependence on Amazon, it could be short-lived. Indeed, Apple needs to build new datactenters the United States (Arizona) and Europe ( Ireland and Denmark ) which should allow the company to Tim Cook to self-host, thus passing the services of its competitors Amazon Microsoft and Google.
On the side of Cupertino, the project is known under the name "Project McQueen" .