Microsoft revealed some figures about its Azure cloud platform at the company"s Worldwide Partner Conference today. The company showed off an impressive list of new features that it has added to the platform over the last twelve months.
And this is just the beginning. Microsoft promises that a whole host of additional features and tools will be added in the weeks and months ahead, with some being announced at WPC in the next few days.
Here are a few other highlights that the company shared about Azure:
- 57% of Fortune 500 companies now use Azure
- Over 300,000 active websites
- More than 30 trillion storage objects
- 3 million requests per second
- 13 billion authentications per week
- Over a million SQL databases in Azure
- 300 million Azure Active Directory users
- 1.65 million developers registered with Visual Studio Online
Microsoft"s Scott Guthrie said that there are only three global companies equipped to deal with the scalable demands of business and enterprise in the cloud: Microsoft, Amazon and Google. It plans to differentiate its offering from those of its rivals through the level of enterprise-grade support that it offers, as well as "the unique hybrid capabilities" of Azure that enable Microsoft partners to develop integrated solutions.
Guthrie also highlighted some of the many partners that have joined Azure in recent months, including some "unexpected" names, such as Oracle and Salesforce.
Guthrie was proud to note too that industry analysts Gartner credited Microsoft in its latest survey of cloud providers for being the only vendor to be listed as a leader in all four "magic quadrants": infrastructure as a service; enterprise application platform as a service; public cloud storage services; and x86 virtualization.
Images captured from Microsoft WPC 2014 live stream