Blue Skies for Microsoft’s Cloud Computing
October 29th, 2008 by Julia Lim
Microsoft announced their Azure cloud platform this week – a rival to Amazon.com’s EC2 and Google’s App Engine. Combined with Microsoft Visual Studio, SQL Services, .NET Services, Live Services, Sharepoint Services and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Services, the new platform will help web developers to build apps for the cloud.
The Azure announcement is the culmination of years of planning for Microsoft’s “software-plus-services approach to computing.” According to Debra Chrapaty, the woman who runs Microsoft’s data center infrastructure, plans started about four to five years ago to build out data center capacity for the new initiatives. The best place to build a new data center: Quincy, Washington – whose hydroelectric power and commitment to fiber made it a winner. (Click here for Mayor Hernberry’s update on the impact of the new data centers and apparently new wineries popping up in Quincy.)
Thank goodness for Microsoft. In this economy, we should all be grateful to companies that can still spend between $300 million to $700 million to build just one data center.
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1. I Dreamed a Dream of Clou&hellip | November 5th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
[...] surprisingly non-megalomaniac way of doing things. Instead of trying to own the entire cloud stack (hmmm – someone just made a very different announcement), Salesforce looks like it’s focusing on what it does best – enabling application [...]
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