Third-party marketplaces are driving hyperscale cloud adoption

Although many cloud providers offer a marketplace for additional products and services, it's the marketplaces of the big three 'hyperscale' clouds --Azure, AWS and Google Cloud -- that are by far the largest. New research from enterprise search company Sinequa finds that these marketplaces are a big draw, with 93 percent of respondents reporting the marketplaces make the big three clouds more attractive as a platform. On average, the research finds enterprise organizations are running eight different services bought through the marketplace, and 90 percent of respondents plan to purchase more products or services from the marketplace. The most used… [Continue Reading]