The cloud services market is expected to reach 500 billion in size 2020 years ago

"The cloud services market is growing faster than people expected," said Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, at the 2012 aggregation conference in Houston, Texas, in Monday (convergence 2012) Keventna and is expected to reach $500 billion trillion by 2020.

This year's aggregation conference attracted more than 10,000 users and partners, and Turner spoke at a keynote address at the opening session of Microsoft's cloud Windows Azure. He pointed out that Forrester, the market analyst, predicted in its latest research report that by 2020 the cloud services market would grow from the current $40 billion trillion to $240 billion trillion.

Turner said: "In fact, we think Forrester's predictions are too conservative and they underestimate the speed of cloud development." A year ago, the cloud was only mentioned as a trend. But now it has entered the mainstream market. We find that countless customers are accepting the cloud at a very, very fast rate. "

Microsoft announced at the opening of the Conference the time schedule for migrating its ERP solution to Azure cloud. The cloud version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 and Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 are mainly aimed at small and medium enterprise users, which will be launched in the fourth quarter of this year.

Microsoft says large companies wanting to use Microsoft's cloud ERP system want Microsoft to release an important version of Dynamics AX. Microsoft launched AX 2012 last September, and it intends to launch Dynamics AX 2012R2 in the fourth quarter of this year. AX 2012R2 will provide retailers with multi-channel capabilities and a new business intelligence feature based on SQL Server 2012, and SQL Server 2012 is not expected to run on azure clouds. The Dynamics CRM that

is already running on the azure cloud will get some cloud-based data enhancements as the fourth quarter Q2 service upgrades. The year-end upgrade will also include features that are of interest to social users, Microsoft said.

Turner said: "There is no doubt that the deepest, broadest and most suitable cloud solution for the enterprise is the Microsoft solution." As an organization, we will greatly expand our capabilities from databases to infrastructure, networking and business applications. It is one of the things we are proud of to be able to provide a cloud that includes Microsoft solutions. "The other thing that makes Turner feel excited about

is that Microsoft is now able to extend the range of choices available to customers." Whether customers want to build their own private cloud, a public cloud access service running from Microsoft or its partners, or running a hybrid cloud, Microsoft can offer themThe corresponding solution. The premise is that they have been authorized and proficient in running Microsoft products.

He said, "We will build the cloud in the way you want it to be." As long as you have fully deployed Active Directory and system Center, you can leverage the various public technologies we identify, virtualize, manage, and develop, and no other company can provide you with those technologies in the cloud. "

at the end of the speech, Turner lashed out at Microsoft's main competitor, Oracle, in the enterprise software market. "When I came to the company 7 years ago, we installed something like a black box in the company, and nobody liked it, it was called Siebel," he said. The world without that Siebel customer will be happy. That's the real thing. "

Microsoft has been trying to open up its own market in the areas of ERP and CRM systems. In the 80 and 90 of the last century, its manufacturing operations ran a black box, based on AS/400 's MRP system, and finally replaced it with its own ERP system in the late 90. Microsoft prides itself on abandoning its competitor's CRM. "But when we finished that product, employees stood up and cheered," Turner said. The

(editor: Heritage)