A Reuters report – by Sarah McBride — today said the shift to Cloud is posing different challenges to Intel and Microsoft.
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While revenue for Microsoft’s flagship cloud services business Azure more than doubled last quarter, the company said in Thursday’s earning report, the “intelligent cloud” division that includes it saw just 3 percent revenue growth in the period. Operating profits for the division dropped by 14 percent, in part reflecting non-cloud products included under its umbrella, such as traditional server software.
Chipmaker Intel has a less clear path to growth for its cloud operations.
Clients are spending a larger part of their technology budget on software, according to Gartner. Intel’s customer base for data-centre chips is consolidating into a few big companies, including Facebook, Google, Amazon and Microsoft itself, from a much wider group.
