John Trembley, chief marketing officer at Atmosera, a Microsoft cloud solution provider that specializes in assessment, migration and management within Azure. Atmosera says it had seen a 294 percent growth rate across its entire Microsoft portfolio, leading the 60-person company to add 12 new employees in the first quarter of 2017.

"As of January and the last couple months, the amount of leads coming in from large companies and large software shops that want to be on Azure, and are specifically looking for somebody to help them and manage the environment, [has] just exploded."