Last week, blogger Aidan Finn posted an excerpt from a Microsoft email announcing 13 percent price hikes in the European region. Reaction from the trade press was immediate, predicting that this action presaged ongoing price hikes.
Barb Darrow of Fortune, in her piece titled “Surprise! The cost of cloud is about to rise” said “Companies spoiled by round after round of price cuts on cloud computing services over the past year or so had better gird themselves for change.” David Linthicum, SVP at Cloud Technology Partners, in his blog titled “The era of ever-cheaper cloud services is over” went on to say:
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