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Mark Russinovich joins the Windows Azure team

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

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Microsoft’s Muglia brings ‘Cloud Computing for Dummies’ on stage

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.

Read the rest of the article on SearchCloudComputing.com

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Windows Azure platform hits general availability

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

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