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The Microsoft Azure cloud has evolved significantly since it first launched as Windows Azure in 2010. It now hosts public and private cloud services, with support for compute, storage and networking workloads across the globe. Recent additions such as Azure Stack (i.e., a solution for running Microsoft hypervisors in your own data center) and Azure Transition Service (which simplifies the migration of IT infrastructures to Azure) have broadened the platform's reach and helped build its market share in the highly competitive infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service spaces.

The cloud has, without a doubt, become one of the most powerful assets to a company's infrastructure. Access to and support for cloud environments can help spur productivity and ensure that employees can utilize the most advanced tools in a way that increases collaboration and enterprise success. 

Microsoft Azure has been growing rapidly ever since its launch, as it closes the gap with longtime industry leader Amazon Web Services and further separates itself from competitors such as Google, IBM and RackSpace. According to Microsoft's quarterly earnings for Q1 2017, the company booked a 116 percent year-over-year increase in Azure revenue. Compute usage also doubled compared to a year ago, just like it had in the last two quarters of fiscal year 2016.

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