Cloud Product Launches
Background: Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service in 2006. EC2 allows users to run virtual servers on demand, and provide flexible and scalable service.
Conclusion: EC2 is the cornerstone of AWS's success and helps AWS dominate the cloud computing market. It set a high standard for cloud services and contributed to the widespread adoption of AWS across industries.
Background: Salesforce, a pioneer in customer relationship management (CRM), launched the Salesforce1 platform in 2014. The purpose of this platform is to unify various Salesforce services into a single ecosystem.
Results: The Salesforce1 platform significantly improved user engagement and retention. It also helped the rapid growth of the Salesforce AppExchange, which became a key part of the Salesforce ecosystem.
Background: Microsoft Azure was launched in 2010 and is Microsoft's cloud computing platform. Over the years, Azure has expanded its services.
Bottom line: Azure's broad and ever-expanding set of services, along with its hybrid capabilities, have helped it become one of the best cloud platforms around. Its management focus and many international structures have contributed to the company's market power.
Background: Slack, a collaboration tool launched in 2013, revolutionized communication in the workplace with its messaging platform- cloud.
The result: Slack bridges the gap between teams and companies and becomes a collaboration tool. Its design and integration capabilities led to the widespread adoption and successful sale of Salesforce in 2021.
Background: Google Cloud introduced BigQuery in 2011 as a fully managed, serverless data warehouse. A solution that allows users to run fast, SQL-like queries on large datasets.
The result: BigQuery became popular with businesses that wanted to analyze data at scale. His work and involvement in the Google Cloud ecosystem contributed to Google Cloud's growing reputation in the data analytics space.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - EC2 Background Launch
Salesforce - Introducing the Salesforce1 Platform
Microsoft Azure - Extension of Azure Services
Slack The Launch and Growth of Slack
Google Cloud - Launch of BigQuery