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Posted by visiondoubletake on August 3, 2010
Mark Russinovich is a legendary figure in the IT world because of his company Sysinternals.
He did so much reverse engineering of the Windows kernel that he ended up knowing it as much as the Microsoft architects. Microsoft acquired his company in 2006 and appointed him as Technical Fellow.
So far, his job has been related to the development of the Windows kernel (Windows 7 and beyond), taking care that its architecture was fully virtualization-aware.
Now a Microsoft developer evangelist, Matthijs Hoekstra, reports that he moved to the Windows Azure team.
While this may be completely unrelated, it seems yet another sign that Microsoft is preparing to launch the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) component of Azure.
While the platform is powered by a variant of Hyper-V, so far Microsoft only exposed its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities. But company clarified in multiple occasions (here and here for example) that Azure will compete with Amazon EC2 in offering hosted virtual machines.
Thanks to ZDNet for the news.
http://cloudcomputing.info/en/news/2010/08/mark-russinovich-joins-the-windows-azure-team.html
Posted in Azure, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Providers | Tagged: Cloud Computing Architecture, Microsoft Azure | 2 Comments »
Posted by brennels on May 20, 2010
”Benioff has been championing the service as disruptive technology for more than a decade. Technology Live caught up with Benioff shortly after he delivered this keynote presentation at a Google event promoting Google Apps Marketplace. Excerpts of that interview:
CEO Mark Benioff is a champion of cloud services.
With Google, IBM and Microsoft
suddenly racing to deliver Software-as-a-Service to small businesses, Marc Benioff, outspoken co-founder and CEO of Salesforce.com, couldn’t be more tickled.”
Posted in Azure, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing, Google, IBM Big Blue, SaaS | Tagged: Cloud Computing, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce.com | Leave a Comment »
Posted by brennels on May 13, 2010
By Harshal Kallyanpur, InformationWeek, May 10, 2010
“It would be safe to say that today, cloud computing is a reality in India. Once regarded with great apprehension, this IT delivery model is slowly beginning to find a fair share of takers in the country.
Over the past few months major software and hardware vendors announced partnerships with telecom and data center service providers to provide a cloud-based service-oriented IT delivery model in India. Organizations such as Reliance Communications, Tata Communications, Wipro, IBM and Sify recently announced their cloud-based services. Other organizations such as Netmagic have been offering cloudbased services for almost a year now.”
Read full article on informationweek
Posted in Azure, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing, Cloud Providers, SaaS, Server Recovery, Storage Virtualization | Tagged: Cloud Computing, cloud services, IBM, Microsoft, VMware | Leave a Comment »
Posted by brennels on February 25, 2010
By Jo Maitland, Executive Editor 23 Feb 2010 | SearchCloudComputing.com
SAN FRANCISCO — Bob Muglia, president of the server and tools business at Microsoft, pulled out a Cloud Computing for Dummies book during his keynote at the Goldman Sachs technology conference today, having found it on his admins desk. He said it was an indicator that the market was growing, but that it still has a ways to go.
“Cloud has a lot of focus right now but will not drive revenue growth over the next two to three years … Windows Server and SQL Server … are the big dogs really driving it,” he said, of Microsoft’s outlook for 2010.
Cloud not material to revenue for next several years
Muglia was bullish on cloud computing transforming the IT industry over the long term, but said that it will not be financially material (meaning more than $1 billion in revenue) to Microsoft’s business for several years.
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Posted in Azure, Cloud Architecture | Tagged: Cloud Computing for Dummies, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Cloud | Leave a Comment »
Posted by brennels on February 23, 2010
The Microsoft Azure blog discussed it’s three principles of the Hypervisor which focus on efficiency, reduced footprint and tighter integration. Director Hoi Vo discusses these frequently asked questions regarding the Azure Hypervisor below..
“Our next few posts will be discussions on the components of the Windows Azure service. Please add comments on anything you would like to hear more about.
By Hoi Vo
Director
We are frequently asked about the Windows Azure Hypervisor, and whether or not the code will be made available to customers as a product they could run in their own datacenters. We built the Windows Azure Hypervisor with three principles:“
Read the full article on the Windows Azure Blog
Posted in Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Hosting, IaaS, PaaS (Platform as a Service) | Tagged: Cloud Computing, Microsoft Azure Hypervisor | Leave a Comment »
Posted by brennels on February 3, 2010
Posted from http://www.pronetworks.org/ By Emil Protalinski February 1, 2010 3:24 PM
“As expected, Microsoft has announced the general availability of the Azure platform (Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and AppFabric) in 21 countries.applications and services with the support of the full Service Level Agreements (SLAs). The Windows Azure platform AppFabric Service Bus and Access Control will continue to be free until April 2010 for those that sign up for a commercial subscription.Technology Preview (CTP) to the production code (Microsoft did not charge for Windows Azure platform usage incurred during January).solutions to their customers. Billing and SLAs for all commercial accounts technically begins today. If you choose not to upgrade to the production code, you should know that CTP accounts are being disabled today and any Windows Azure Storage is being made read-only. “
Starting today, Microsoft customers and partners in those regions will be able to launch their Azure production
The final release was available last month, and since then Redmond says thousands of customers have moved from the Community
This month though, Microsoft’s partners will be able to begin selling paid commercial subscriptions based on their own
Posted in Azure, PaaS (Platform as a Service) | Tagged: Cloud Computing, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Partners, SharePoint, SQL Server | Leave a Comment »
Posted by brennels on January 25, 2010
By Carl Brooks, Technology Writer
14 Jan 2010 | SearchCloudComputing.com
“HP and Microsoft have announced a $250 million partnership to develop integrated data center products that HP will offer as the HP Private Cloud. It will feature Microsoft’s fledgling data center automation suite, which includes virtualization hypervisor Hyper-V, and dashboard tools designed to help Windows-based data centers shift towards private cloud computing environments.
HP is already providing server hardware for Windows Azure, Microsoft’s Platform as a Service business, and the one hundred and fifteen billion-dollar firm said that HP Private Cloud products created under this new agreement will feature built-in integration with Azure services, giving Microsoft a captive audience for its new platform.
“This approach enables customers to integrate private or public cloud computing models as their business requires, and in the future, services built on Microsoft Windows Azure,” said an HP spokesperson.”
Read the full article here on SearchCloudComputing.com
Posted in Azure, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing, Cloud Recovery, HP, PaaS (Platform as a Service) | Tagged: Azure, Cloud Computing, Hewlett Packard, kumbaya, Microsoft | 1 Comment »
Posted by brennels on October 21, 2009
written by: Carl Brooks itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com
“Amazon would like to remind you to thank them for the heightened expectations.
So a Web app running on a telecom service goes belly up and cloud is moribund yet again. That seems to be the latest version of the slightly overheated cloud marketing machine this week.
It may be that the end user cannot tell Amazon Web Services apart from Gmail, which isn’t his job, really, or that the Sidekick/Danger/Microsoft data loss may be one of the most spectacular IT bungles ever made, but this is certainly not going to register in the real cloud computing markets.
No-one stores their email contacts on AWS. Salesforce.com isn’t ever going to let this happen (call me if they do, just sayin’) and Azure, well, isn’t exactly a thing yet, and had zero contact with the destroyed data. I would venture that not a single consumer of any of these services even blinked when they heard about the Sidekick apocalypse.”
Read full article here on itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com
Posted in Amazon, Azure, Cloud Availability, Cloud Computing, Cloud Providers, Cloud Recovery, PaaS (Platform as a Service) | 1 Comment »
Posted by brennels on August 19, 2009
I read this post recently from VMlover and thought it was pretty entertaining and worth shareing. Certainly as the Cloud becomes a more adopted platform there will be a need for migrating workloads across virtual public and private cloud infrastructure. The more interesting question is however, will the Virtualization vendors come together for a standardized platform that will allow cross virtualiziation platform movement?
As if by cloud magic…By: VMlover
“Since my last post where I discussed the Microsoft Azure cloud service and highlighted that I felt companies competing in the cloud space such as VMware are now diversifying past the Hypervisor to reach aspirations of Cloud, and then Vmware go and do me a favor and make me look like i’m a visionary and extrememy intelligent and buy Spring Source!!!.
I have had all week to digest the views and opinions from various Industry analysts and bloggers and see what they are thinking and saying in general on the Spring acquisition and now heres my attempt (ARSE COVER DISCLAIMER – I am not a Software Architect/coder/guru/white sandals & sock wearer so excuse any rubbish) at trying to predict where the purchase will lead VMware’s current business model and what will evole from the acquisition, lastly I also highlight what the industry needs from any of Vmware’s clouds offerings.”
Read the full article here
Posted in Azure, Cloud Providers | Tagged: Azure, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Live Migration, IaaS, PaaS, Platform Migration, Virtual Private Cloud, Virtual Public Cloud, VMware | Leave a Comment »
Posted by brennels on July 13, 2009
By Barbara Darrow, Senior News Director, SearchCloudComputing.com published this article on Microsoft Azure pricing to uncercut Amazon Web Services.
“If Microsoft Azure services cost 10% less than comparable Amazon Web Services, the company could win converts to its camp despite its late start.
Microsoft has told some big customers that the 10% differential is part of a broad pricing plan for the services. Another source said Microsoft used both AWS and services like Go Daddy as reference points for price comparisons on the business and consumer side. “They talked about coming in at 5% or 10% below what’s already out there,” he said.
According to one corporate IT manager, Microsoft, for purposes of the price comparison, used the less expensive AWS Linux compute and storage services as the baseline.
“AWS uses Xen virtualization as the base, so you are only paying for the guest OS instance when you use it. It’s my understanding that Microsoft will adjust [its] model to match this, with guests running on Hyper-V on a base 2008 R2 OS that you won’t be paying for,” he said.”
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