Strategies of two cloud vendors i.e of Microsoft and other is Red Hat.

2. What is “STRATEGY” ???
A plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or
overall aim.

3. To understand how a cloud provider's plans can affect your
environment, we will examine the strategies for two vendors
• Microsoft
• RedHat
These two were chosen because they all have something in
common -- private cloud offerings -- yet their cloud
strategies

4. Microsoft :
*Microsoft believes that Platform as a Service (PaaS) is the
future of cloud computing, but it is not giving up on the
enterprise cloud market.
*An important part of Microsoft’s strategy is to enhance its
System Center components to be cloud-capable.
*Microsoft’s focus is its huge installed base; with more than
70% of servers running Windows, it's one of the major reasons
that Microsoft is not really working to interoperate with other
clouds.

5. Red Hat’s Cloud Strategy:
Red Hat’s cloud strategy involves promoting interoperability
and application portability. IaaS
Red Hat will continue to focus on its Cloud Foundations
portfolio of software. This cloud stack is designed to run
consistently across physical servers, private clouds and public
clouds. Red Hat is positioned to be private and public enablers
for IaaS, and a private enabler and public provider for PaaS.