Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules in place

Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by dabeeeenster on Sunday March 29, 2020 @05:47PM (#22723063)

Honest question; how do you define "demand"?

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Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by KennethSRoberts on Sunday March 29, 2020 @05:50PM (#22723089)

Maybe start by clicking the link?

> In a March 28 blog post, officials said that demand for its new Windows Virtual Desktop usage has grown by more than three times. They also said government use of public Power BI for sharing COVID-19 dashboads is up 42 percent in a week. (As is the case with Microsoft's overall cloud services figure, we don't have a base number for WVD and Power BI from which to calculate these percentages.)

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Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by dabeeeenster on Sunday March 29, 2020 @05:56PM (#22723126)

It still doesnt define demand. Is that new sales or what?

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Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Sunday March 29, 2020 @06:14PM (#22723261)

Utilization.

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Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by dabeeeenster on Sunday March 29, 2020 @06:26PM (#22723353)

Their utilization has gone up 700%? Bullshit.

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Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by swrj on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:04PM (#22723927)

>"We have seen a 775 percent increase of our cloud services in regions that have enforced social distancing or shelter in place orders."

Seems to be a cherry picked statistic, not an overall increase in utilization.

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Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by onefuncman on Monday March 30, 2020 @04:28AM (#22726196)

Uh, it's absolutely true. I have entire offices (100s of people) that switched from Webex to MS Teams for better video quality.

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Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Sunday March 29, 2020 @09:11PM (#22724330)

Not for Azure as a whole, no, but that sounds entirely plausible for specific services like Teams.

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