Can Microsoft (or Rackspace) Dethrone Cloud King Amazon?

Derrick Harris
Sunday, July 19, 2009
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Who will wear the cloud computing crown?

Microsoft and Rackspace both made much cloud computing news this week; the former by announcing pricing and details for its Azure platform, and the latter by opening up its Cloud Servers APIs. Both companies have large customer bases and strong reputations, so the real question as their cloud offerings mature is not if they can attract customers, but, rather, if either company can dethrone Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the cloud king. […]

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Who, if anyone, can conquer Amazon's cloud dominance?

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