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What Satya Nadella means to Azure future
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 11, 2011
- In: Microsoft
- 2 Comments
With the recent changes in the leadership of one of Microsoft’s key business units – Server and Tools – from Bob Muglia to Satya Nadella one can’t help speculating what this means for the business unit and how it will affect Microsoft’s cloud strategy, specifically Windows Azure – Microsoft’s platform as a service. Here’s my uneducated [...]
Azure Appliance – a Turn-Key Private Cloud?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: July 14, 2010
Maybe not just yet unless you are an extremely large hosting company or enterprise with big IT and research and development (R&D) budgets. To re-cap, this week at its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) Microsoft announced that together with their hardware partners they will start offering (some time later this year as a limited release for [...]
Windows 7 – Microsoft’s First Step to the Cloud
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 13, 2009
Pundits talking about how Windows 7 is all about Microsoft competing against Apple, recovering with Vista consumer adoption disaster, or getting people off of XP, are missing one other – extremely important – part of the Windows 7 story. Windows 7 and its server counterpart – Windows Server 2008 R2 – are actually the first [...]
Azure leaving Microsoft
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 13, 2009
It’s official: Microsoft partners will be able to run Windows Azure too. The news was broken by Microsoft’s general manager of business strategy for cloud infrastructure services Doug Hauger this Wednesday as he spoke at the Thomas Weisel 2009 Technology and Telecom Conference in San Francisco. I quote from ENT News: “This is a beautiful [...]
Microsoft so open on datacenters
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: December 10, 2008
Seems that Microsoft is suddenly surprisingly extremely open on how they design and run their datacenters. Not only we have a write up by Michael Manos on their Generation 4 datacenter architecture (and a great concept video), but even more surprisingly James Hamilton is giving us a spreadsheet of their datacenter expense structure! Can you [...]
Exchange Online, Hosted Services, Labs, Hotmail, Live@edu – can you tell the difference?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 14, 2008
Microsoft is producing so much effort in the SaaS space recently that they can get one easily confused. Quickly: can you tell the difference between Microsoft Exchange Online, Exchange Labs, Windows Live Hotmail, Microsoft Live@edu, and Exchange Hosted Services? Fear not. This post will make the distinction crystal clear! First of all: All of them [...]
Microsoft Azure vs Amazon, Google, and VMware
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 29, 2008
- In: Amazon | Google | Microsoft | VMware
- 25 Comments
Now that we had a few days to look at Microsoft’s Windows Azure it is time to compare it with other alternatives on the market. For our comparison we picked solutions from the biggest players in the market and potential to impact the industry in that area: Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google App [...]
Webex Connect vs Microsoft Online Services
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 20, 2008
Bob Ives published an overview of Webex Connect and it looks like SharePoint Online and other soon to be released Microsoft-hosted collaboration tools are going to face pretty tough competition from Cisco. Feature-to-feature both companies are offering a very similar set of technologies: messaging, presence, document sharing, web meetings. So what’s the difference? It looks [...]
Will Live Mesh fail like Groove did?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 14, 2008
As Microsoft is ramping up its cloud story it seems that Live Mesh is starting to be positioned as one of the key elements. For example, now the Mesh framework got renamed to just Live Framework – quite a promotion unless there’s something else added in there. I am quite skeptical about the technology and [...]
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