Microsoft Enters Cloud Computing Game
by Wyatt WalterIn true Microsoft style, Microsoft has finally (almost) entered the cloud computing arena with its new Windows Azure services. Azure’s offerings are similar to the Google App Engine in that they are storage and processing services rather making the costumer manage the instances at an OS level such as the Amazon EC2 cloud. Of course, this lack of responsibility and management also means a loss of control and customization. Azure will offer on-demand versions of Exchange, Microsoft CRM, Sharepoint, Microsoft Office Live services as well as the .NET and “Live” application platforms for web developers. Ballmer talked of these new services just a month ago saying it would be announced towards the end of October.
Microsoft’s new offerings come just a few weeks after Amazon announces plans to enable Windows in its EC2 cloud which allows customers the ability to manage its machines fully by running them on top of Xen and giving customers full “root” access. Since Microsoft apparently doesn’t call its pre-release products beta anymore, you can now check out a “technology preview” here.
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Oct 28th, 2008
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