Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)’s CEO Satya Nadella made it clear on the first day of becoming the CEO that company’s main focus on the lens will be on Cloud. In an article on GigaOM, Andrew Brust explained the swift improvement of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Cloud since last summer. The company, upon Nadella’s prerogative, has clearly streamlined its Cloud services. There were many loopholes which were perilous for Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Cloud, but now, the sources claims, they have been fixed. Microsoft has introduced the state of the art HDInsight Big Data service based on Hadoop 2.0. This service will let users to deeply examine the Big Data sector of Azure Cloud with analytics power. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has also launched NoSQL database called DocumentDB for storing document data. In order to capture the data from multifarious aspects of Cloud, a publishing service is launched by the company.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Azure Machine learning has been launched. Apart from this, a discovery based Search service having ElasticSearch at its core is introduced recently, making Windows Azure Cloud very smart and efficient. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is expanding its Cloud based service by taking different partners on board. Users of Azure Cloud can play with Hadoop clusters based on Cloudera’s Distribution of Hadoop. IBM’s Cloudant database is now available with NoSQL database.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is on its way to challenge Cloud juggernauts like Google and Amazon. Especially, Microsoft’s Azure machine learning ability has not match till yet from Amazon but Amazon’s RedShift growth service outmaneuvers all other competitors. Its relational database services are becoming conventional and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) can easily compete with it.
Satya Nadella recently reiterated his plans to spend million on Cloud. Brust thinks that Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has still a long way to go in Cloud. The company must introduce data discovery services in order to make its Cloud more efficient.
Jeffrey Ubben‘s ValueAct Capital owns over 74 million shares in Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT).
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