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By: Ballmer On the Cloud: “Throw Out All the World’s Software” – GigaOM

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:22:58 +0000

[...] today’s online hosted applications. Ballmer’s speech was less about specific services, such as Azure, than it was about how the cloud is influencing numerous Microsoft projects and [...]

By: Why Azure Could Help Drive Cloud Revenue in 2010 : intal

Why Azure Could Help Drive Cloud Revenue in 2010 : intal — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:15:31 +0000

[...] Azure, the cloud computing platform that Microsoft rolled out this week, could drive significant cloud revenues in 2010, as the company is more uniquely positioned to serve the needs of enterprise customers than any other large-scale cloud provider to date. [...]

By: Why Azure Could Help Drive Cloud Revenue in 2010 – GigaOM

Why Azure Could Help Drive Cloud Revenue in 2010 – GigaOM — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:02:05 +0000

[...] By Gary Orenstein Feb. 5, 2010, 12:00pm PST No Comments 0 Azure, the cloud computing platform that Microsoft rolled out this week, could drive significant cloud [...]

By: Windows Azure | Scalable web architectures

Windows Azure | Scalable web architectures — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:25:05 +0000

[...] Blog: Everything you want to know about Azure [...]

By: Microsoft Finally Opens Azure for Business – GigaOM

Microsoft Finally Opens Azure for Business – GigaOM — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:53:30 +0000

[...] system on which developers can build using .NET, Java, Ruby on Rails, Python and other languages. (From Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft’s Azure. [...]

By: Hadi Curtay

Hadi Curtay — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:40:18 +0000

Thanks for the wonderful article. Still deciding whether to migrate from our existing servers to Azure platform for our club management application. However its not very clear if its going to be costlier or less expensive to run it on them.

By: What the Cisco/EMC/VMware Trinity Means For Cloud Computing – GigaOM

What the Cisco/EMC/VMware Trinity Means For Cloud Computing – GigaOM — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:10:09 +0000

[...] on hardware providers building gear for the clouds and a potential threat to cloud providers like Microsoft Azure and Amazon’s cloud services that aren’t building VMware [...]

By: Microsoft Azure Walks a Thin Blue Line

Microsoft Azure Walks a Thin Blue Line — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:01:44 +0000

[...] | Thursday, November 19, 2009 | 5:00 PM PT | 0 comments | 0 tweets retweet » With Azure, Microsoft is trying to strike a balance between giving customers the ease of a platform as a [...]

By: Microsoft’s Future Lies in Software and Data

Microsoft’s Future Lies in Software and Data — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:13:27 +0000

[...] be Microsoft’s Azure cloud, which will go into production Jan. 1, 2010. For more on Azure, check out our previous coverage. With Pinpoint, Microsoft is acknowledging the success of the Android Marketplace and Apple’s [...]

By: Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud – Will it be Private enough? « Life, the Universe and Everything

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:42:24 +0000

[...] find the right mix of scale and security for enterprise clients: With Azure, Microsoft is building its own platform and infrastructure-as-a-service offering called Azure; IBM is creating several gradations of a hybrid cloud, from private [...]

By: Surfevil.com » Blog Archive » Amazon Woos Corporates: Cuts EC2 Price, Offers Relational Database as a Service, New High Memory Instances

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:42:33 +0000

[...] with specialized needs, and may be an answer to Microsoft’s upcoming Azure platform, which features its own relational database as a service. The push for high-memory instances can open up Amazon to further business from genomics and drug [...]

By: Amazon Cuts EC2 Price, Offers Relational Database as a Service

Amazon Cuts EC2 Price, Offers Relational Database as a Service — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:26:13 +0000

By: Will Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud Be Private Enough?

Will Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud Be Private Enough? — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:55:15 +0000

[...] are trying to find the right mix of scale and security for enterprise clients. Microsoft is building its own platform and infrastructure-as-a-service offering called Azure; IBM is creating several gradations of a private cloud from something [...]

By: links for 2009-07-17 « Dan Creswell’s Linkblog

links for 2009-07-17 « Dan Creswell’s Linkblog — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:06:06 +0000

[...] Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft Azure Microsoft today unveiled pricing details for its Azure services platform — possibly because customers were reluctant to build an application on the beta platform without knowing what it may one day cost them. The platform is Microsoft’s leap into the clouds, and it’s an impressive first step, at least on paper, complete with competitive pricing and lots of concessions designed to get enterprise customers to shift over their IT operations. (tags: cloudcomputing microsoft azure) [...]

By: Roger Jennings

Roger Jennings — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:07:49 +0000

Google App Engine appears to me to be far less costly than Azure, especially for development, because of its free quota threshold. For more details, see A Comparison of Azure and Google App Engine Pricing (http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/comparison-of-azure-and-google-app.html).

–rj

By: Microsoft’s and Amazon’s Cloud Strategies Face Open Source Challenges | google android os blog

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:33:01 +0000

[...] has announced pricing for the components of its Azure cloud computing platform, as GigaOm reports, and you can watch a video about Azure here. As expected, consumption-based computing costs are [...]