WPC this year is really ramming home the importance of Cloud, its integration across devices and services and the tremendous momentum in relation to its adoption.
- One in four of our enterprise customers has Office 365, and with an annual revenue run rate of >$1 billion Office 365 is on track to be one of the fastest growing businesses in Microsoft history.
- We have seen over 40% growth in our all up enterprise cloud businesses with strong contribution from both hosting service providers, private cloud solutions and our own public cloud services. Windows Azure alone is outgrowing the overall cloud market by >150 points.
- By 2016, 45% of IT budgets will be devoted to cloud initiatives with 15% of that devoted to public cloud. (Source: IDC)
As a result of this momentum, Julie Bennani today announced a series of changes and improvements to the Microsoft Partner Network which will enable every partner to become cloud capable and therefore be able to capitalise on the cloud opportunity and compete effectively.
The full context around these changes and improvements can be found on Julie Bennani’s blog.
In addition the Microsoft Partner Network Roadmap Guide has been updated today to reflect all forthcoming changes.