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Microsoft's 'open' cloud addition doesn't mean what you think

Posted April 13, 2011 - 1:00 pm

At the same time VMware was placing a big bet on open-source cloud software, Microsoft barely entered the game.
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Microsoft promises to turn almost any app into SAAS

Posted March 29, 2011 - 2:20 pm

Microsoft said its application virtualization software due later this year will let applications run on its Azure cloud as well as in the data center.
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Dell to offer both major types of cloud, from 10 new data centers

Posted March 22, 2011 - 3:48 pm

Michael Dell has promised to build 10 new data centers to support his ambition to be a cloud provider, offering IAAS and PAAS to compete with both Microsoft and Amazon.
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'I'll always be there for you' Microsoft tells Azure users

Posted January 27, 2011 - 5:40 pm

Oddly, given how ephemeral the whole cloud-service environment can be, no major vendor has made length-of-service guarantees an issue. Until now.
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Microsoft offers "HPC" on Azure

Posted November 18, 2010 - 7:04 pm

Proteomic research is huge and complex, but many of the calculations that enable it are small, statistical calculations well suited for MPP across clusters of smallish PC hardware.
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Azure set to collide with Microsoft channel partners, again

Posted November 12, 2010 - 3:57 pm

Offering software and server platforms online inherently conflicts with companies that sell it for on-premise use; cloud and SAAS providers are proliferating so quickly, though, that Microsoft won't keep butting heads directly with partners. They'll be lucky to find each other.
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EC2 SS2 cuts prices as Azure comes on strong

Posted November 1, 2010 - 7:23 pm

Cloud providers fight for attention, but does a new cloud-services portal threaten to commoditize a market for technology whose differentiating factors are invisible on purpose.
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Microsoft makes Azure a lot more like a (Windows) data center

Posted October 28, 2010 - 6:47 pm

Microsoft's Azure is designed to make it easy to run .NET apps; now you can also launch VMs to run regular apps, too. That may seem like a small change; it's not.
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Ray Ozzie's (incredibly long) departing memo a warning to Microsoft

Posted October 25, 2010 - 1:56 pm

Outgoing chief software architect Ray Ozzie posts a long memo warning Microsoft that, despite much progress and many successes during his five years in Redmond, the company runs the risk of lagging behind in a "post-PC world."
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Does it really matter that Ray Ozzie is leaving Microsoft?

Posted October 19, 2010 - 2:51 pm

So how has Monday's news that Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie is leaving the company being interpreted by industry observers?
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Microsoft Demo is First Shot in Fight to Own the Cloud

Posted October 14, 2010 - 8:37 pm

A demo is small beer, but add provocation from Amazon, growing cloud spending, and threats to Windows and you can expect a full Redmond sally to own the cloud.
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