Windows Azure
27. October 2008
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So, today at the PDC 2008 in Los Angeles Ray Ozzie announced Microsoft’s new Operating System, Windows Azure.
Some key claims:
- Virtualization technology, based on a tuned Hypervisor
- Separation of user-space and System-space
- Ultimately scalable, global, cloudlike
- Based around Windows Server 2008, invisible
- Tight integration for deployment and provisioning with MS Visual Studio
Some potential problems:
- As yet an unclear pricing model (”market competetive with Amazon”)
- risk of vendor lock-in (no clear roadmap for data portability)
- Currently very beta-like tools, no worldwide data centers
My take: Microsoft have finally published a counterpoint to Amazon’s and Google’s cloud services. This is Microsoft’s big shot, it has to work, they have to transform, because the desktop OS is dying.
