Tuesday, November 11, 2008 5:45 PM
by
stevecla01
The Register explains Azure
Sometimes The Register makes me grimace but today they made me smile. Okay so their view of Azure isn’t totally accurate but it’s not that far off and you have to love the style in which it’s written. As an example
Windows Azure protects you from scary shit like managing operating systems. You deploy your application straight to the data center, and it's all run in virtual instances of Windows Server 2008. Marshalling that virtualization is Windows Azure's job. Microsoft has understood that every time a developer needs to configure services on a machine, they fuck it up and need to page the ops people.
We should have these guys write our whitepapers :) Most of all though I love their parting comment
Let's say you're a business decision maker, and you got yourself on this cloud computing kick. Who would you rather buy your cloud resources from?
1. A company whose main business is books
2. A company whose main business is text advertisements
3. A company whose main business is business software
Not sure I’ll mention that at CloudCamp tomorrow….
Hat tip to ABaker for pointing me to this article.
