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Ray Ozzie's view from the clouds

Microsoft's way of accomplishing missionI'm not ever going to say "Mission Accomplished".Another VP of cloud at the PDC saying "I'm not going to give a timeframe".I could go and gather more quotes but am too busy to search. All I've got to say is looking good Microsoft (to crash and...

Tags: Ray Ozzie

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Three new codenames and how they fit into Microsoft's cloud vision

They are named V / W / TThey came up with some good names:VirusWormTrojan;)Wow! Did you figure that out all by yourself? You get a gold star! [nt].Windows 'BOT CLOUD' now that is NEW!Instead of the MILLIONS of compromised Windows servers/desktop world wide and growing.The Windows cloud will pollute the...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Windows Azure, Microsoft Corp., operating system, vision

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Microsoft puts more Azure cloud plumbing in place

Editing nitMary Jo - it always bugs me when you and others refer to 'Azure.' There is no such thing as 'Azure.' There is a Windows Azure product and a SQL Azure product but no Azure product. It seems confusing to use Azure along. If you want to talk...

Tags: Operating systems, Content management, Azure, Windows Azure, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

More Microsoft PDC 2009 sessions revealed

Pointof clarificationI think you post on the changes to the Live Framework was somewhat off-base. It seems true that Microsoft is not directly linking Windows Live Services to Windows Azure but they're absolutely going to encourage developers to use Windows Live Servies in combination with Windows Azure.For example, when it...

Tags: Operating systems, Windows Azure, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Live

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Windows Azure: a very difficult concept explained

Windows Azure: a very difficult concept explainedNot really an OS.An OS is something that allocates and manages the hardware, drives, memory and provides application startup and teardown task switching etc.Azure won't do any of these things for you but it does allow you to interact seemlessly with other PCs and...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Windows Azure, Azure, operating system, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-05-01

Windows Azure: a very difficult concept explained

Since the announcement of Windows Azure, codenamed "Red Dog" as discovered by my colleague Mary-Jo Foley, at PDC 2008, I have felt an element of doubt hanging over the service, simply because I didn't know enough about it. This post will explain everything you need to know about Azure -...

Tags: Operating System, Server, Microsoft Corp., Service, Windows Azure, Mary-Jo, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Data Centers, Storage, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-05-01

MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Windows Azure Storage Services With John Croft (Level 200)

Windows Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting, and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. The presenter of this webcast covers the data storage options provided by Windows Azure. The presenter highlights the different uses for the different data storage options,...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Data Storage, Webcast, Windows Azure, Microsoft Windows, Storage Management, Storage, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-03-25

Microsoft: No on-premise Azure hosting for business users

Will Microsoft allow enterprises to do on-premise hosting based on its cloud computing Azure platform? The latest -- and perhaps final -- answer is no. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Azure, Windows Azure, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Servers, Operating Systems, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-03-23

What is cloud computing?

What is cloud computing?Cloud = Virtual Private Server HostingThe Cloud is not new.Virtual Private Server Hosting has been around for years.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_serverIt's just the breadth of resources has turned it into a quasi-utility of sorts and pricing has come down sufficiently to make Cloud not only affordable but attractive to SMBs...

Tags: Windows Azure, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-02-26

Windows Azure Blob

Windows Azure is the foundation of Microsoft's Cloud Platform. It is the "Operating System for the Cloud" that provides essential building blocks for application developers to write scalable and highly available services. Windows Azure provides: Virtualized Computation, Scalable Storage, Automated Management and Rich Developer SDK. Windows Azure Storage allows application...

Tags: Application Developer, Microsoft Corp., Windows Azure, Windows Azure Storage, Microsoft Windows, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2008-12-01

Making clouds a move forward

Making clouds a move forwardWindows Azure Is NOT VaporI was able to get a simple data-backed ASP.NET Web forms app installed and running in a Windows Azure instance in less than 15 minutes after testing it with the local (on-premises) Development Storage and Fabric facilities. See http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/azure-storage-services-test-harness.html for more details.As...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, cloud computing, Manufacturing, Data Ownership, Pie-In-The-Sky, Windows Azure

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

Ray Ozzie announces Windows Azure

Ray Ozzie announces Windows AzureVague and empty Geek SpeakThis clip is an example straight out of the children's fable "The Emperor's New Clothes". Full of buzz words, faux made up on the fly tech speak and other techno prestidigitation. Ozzie manages to waste 5 min of my time...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Ray Ozzie, Windows Azure

Discussion threads 2008-11-06

Windows Azure is much more important than Windows 7

Windows Azure is much more important than Windows 7In the next 12 months . . .WM7 is way more important than Azure and W7 combined. M$ has to right this sinking WM ship. Apple is eating their lunch, and now Google has entered the fray with their very compelling G1...

Tags: Operating systems, enterprise market, Microsoft Corp., Windows Azure, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, WM7

Discussion threads 2008-11-05

Windows Azure is much more important than Windows 7

Windows 7 gets all the blogger attention, which makes sense to some extent, as much revenue and developer mindshare is bound up in the success of Windows. Microsoft, however, clearly gave Windows Azure priority at last week's PDC, which is indicative of the importance the company places on its...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Azure, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, John Carroll, Server, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2008-11-05

Ray Ozzie announces Windows Azure

At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie talks about the company's new cloud computing operating system, called Windows Azure. The new OS is a framework that allows you to scale from 10 users to 10 million users without additional coding. Ozzie also...

Tags: Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Windows Azure, Microsoft

Videos 2008-10-28

Enterprise readiness of Cloud ratcheting up

It may just be time for enterprise customers to take a serious look at cloud computing. Major announcements in the past few days from Microsoft and Amazon have certainly signaled that the on-demand Internet computing model has staying power. And with a long recession looming there may be no better...

Tags: Windows Azure, Cloud Computing, James Staten

Blog posts 2008-10-28

Windows Azure defined

Windows Azure definedIt seems very strange......if MS has been on this thing for 2.5 years and still might not be sure whether Azure could be an ad based offering or made available to 3rd parties including ISPs. I don't think there's room for a lack of clarification.my definition: hot airAzure...

Tags: Operating systems, cloud computing, Investment, Microsoft Windows, Windows Azure, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-28

Windows Azure defined

Windows Azure is a Microsoft hosting framework that makes it easy to scale from 10 users to 10 million users with no additional effort. Though it's a good idea, I do think they should consider allowing third party hosting providers to compete with Microsoft's Azure data farm. by John...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Windows Azure, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, John Carroll, Application, Abstraction, .NET Services, Azure Concept, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2008-10-28

Windows Azure: Microsoft mainstreams the cloud

Windows Azure: Microsoft mainstreams the cloudWhy would everyone be excitedby this announcement. Not one MS internet initiative has done anything except lose money for the company in the past ten years.Perhaps because they are smarter than you could ever hope to be"by this announcement. Not one MS internet initiative has...

Tags: Operating systems, Windows Azure, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexed

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexedHead in the clouds...So, Microsoft "cloud computing" is another huge boon to IT Departments who want to hire more staff? I wonder if anyone will eventually wake up and realize that IT departments can usually be replaced by a dozen temp...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Databases, Windows Azure, Azure, PDC, Microsoft Corp., data center, server, ISV

Discussion threads 2008-10-27