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Comment on Microsoft Azure – Life in the Cloud by Danny O

Danny O — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:24:17 +0000

Ts-Admin,
Thanks for you post. I am presently reading up on Cloud Hosting and Testing for the company I work for and after reading your post it opened my eyes a bit more about MS Azure. I wish I could say the say for Mr. Chou at Microsoft, your post simply came off as defensive of the MS product rather than talking to the cost issue and inflexibility of the application. But I do believe your statement that Azure “will be changing very rapidly” is accurate, Microsoft does like to improve on itself and that at least is a plus in my opinion.

I will continue on in my research. Thank you Ts-Admin.

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Comment on Microsoft Azure – Life in the Cloud by David Chou

David Chou — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:11:52 +0000

Hi Ts-admin, thanks for taking a look at Windows Azure! Your observations are correct, though I’d like to suggest a different way to look at Azure, as it’s why you’re finding the differences that contribute to the con’s you noted. Basically, we think cloud computing is not exactly the same as cloud hosting; and Azure was designed from that perspective – to enable agility (much more so than cost reduction) and to support Internet-scale applications.

From the agility perspective, we wanted Azure to allow people to deploy applications and have them up and running within a matter of minutes, without having to maintain and interact with server OS. From Internet-scale applications perspective, we wanted Azure to allow people to be able to start with a small footprint, but can easily scale out to thousands of servers supporting millions of users. For example, applications like Facebook and Twitter; Azure can help simplify the engineering efforts required to build and operate these applications in on-premises environments. That’s the primary use case for Azure today, and thus why it isn’t ideally suited for hosting all the same things we host in our own environments today.

Plus, Microsoft has a whole ecosystem of hosting partners. To offer Azure as pure cloud hosting would mean competing with our own ecosystem. Furthermore, we do think that many data center teams can do hosting themselves much more effectively (like you stated), kind of like the analogy between owning and maintaining your car (and being able to tune and optimize it any way you want), versus taking public transportation (which is what Azure is more like).

Of course, the current state in Azure will be changing very rapidly. Many of the new features to be rolled out this year will make Azure a lot friendlier to more existing workloads, such as Admin Mode, VM Role, full IIS control, and eventually the Appliance.
Now let’s look at Microsoft’s overall cloud strategy. It has never been our intention to position Azure as something that will completely replace data center environments today. Our servers and tools business will continue to evolve and support on-premises deployment of software and building private clouds, for example. Azure is a public cloud environment that is more appropriate for things that live on the Internet, and less ideally suited for things that just need a place to host. Thus Microsoft’s overall cloud strategy is to provide both software and cloud services as options for customers to choose from; as both are still very valid models in today’s world.

Just my thoughts. Best! -David Chou (Microsoft)

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