75% of databases to be cloud-hosted by 2022 says Gartner while dishing on the weak points of each provider
AWS ‘reluctant to embrace a multicloud world’ but Azure ‘often more expensive than on-premises’ Databases are moving to the cloud but Azure is expensive, Google has suspect support, and AWS is blinkered about multicloud, Gartner has observed in its latest Magic Quadrant.…
Date: 2020-12-02
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