Top Kiwi cloud expert swaps Microsoft for AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has appointed Jaron Burbidge as senior executive of New Zealand, leveraging the cloud expert of Microsoft rivals.

By joining the market leader from Oct. 2, Reseller News can reveal that Burbidge is responsible for helping Kiwi customers seize the power of the public cloud by working with the most strategic countries strategy.

Prior to joining AWS, Burbidge managed engagements and alliances with Microsoft's major clients in New Zealand, as well as managing a local team of architects, account managers and cloud partners.

Throughout seven years at Microsoft, Burbidge has also been responsible for developing business in corporate cloud solutions, helping Kiwi organizations through the transition to the mid-market, enterprise and public sector market.

With more than 15 years of sales experience in the New Zealand and Australian markets, Burbidge has also held senior business development positions with IBM and Tandberg, having started with Canon New Zealand, Cogent, Visual Communications and Vantage Systems.

Burbidge's move comes as AWS continues to dominate the global infrastructure services industry as a service (IaaS), with 44.2% of market share.

But, as Reseller News said, the market leader could face stiff competition on the track if the rampant revenue growth rates of its three closest rivals remain uninterrupted.

According to the results of Gartner's research, Microsoft, Alibaba and Google seem to close, albeit by remote starting points.

However, in order to put the AWS market share in perspective, all other service providers in the IaaS cloud not included in the top five accounted for 41.2% of the world market share of $ 9.15 billion of US dollars.

At the local level, Burbidge is not the only top-level executive to join AWS in the past month, with Niall O'Gorman, director of the Nutanix A / NZ channel, also launching a new role in the cloud provider.

As stated in Reseller News, the move takes approximately 16 months after O'Gorman was appointed by Nutanix to manage hyper-convergence business chain activity in the local market.