Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the Cloud Business

"Data is key to both machine and deep learning," explains McDonough, "data in conjunction with a strong algorithm are the keys to success. Mega clouds have been attractive to customers because they make it easier to setup, operationalize and expand. They additionally offer ancillary services to be leveraged. Today most consider Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform as the industry's biggest public cloud vendors. These three'mega clouds' are the market leaders, but McDonough speculated that this may not always be the case for AI.