re: Breaking news: Så kom der IaaS på Azure!

Scott Hill — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:41:25 GMT

#cloud #azure #ISACA Redmond Report--the official "unofficial" Microsoft blog, has this news about the new additions to the MS Azure platform:

News

Microsoft Announces Major Upgrade to Windows Cloud Platform

By adding Infrastructure as a Service to the Windows Azure portfolio, Microsoft is mounting its most formidable challenge yet to Amazon Web Services.

By Jeffrey Schwartz

06/07/2012

Microsoft released the most significant upgrade yet to Windows Azure, the company announced this week, along with new tooling and language support so that developers can code against the updated cloud platform.

The revamped service, which will provide persistent virtual machines and support for Linux instances, promises to significantly enhance Microsoft's public cloud offering by allowing enterprises to shift applications and workloads from their datacenters to Windows Azure (and vice versa), creating hybrid clouds. By adding Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to its Platform as a Service (PaaS) portfolio, Microsoft is also mounting its most formidable challenge yet to Amazon Web Services.

read the entire article here:

reddevnews.com/.../microsoft-announces-major-upgrade-to-windows-cloud-platform.aspx