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Is Microsoft late to the cloud or early? I read the NY Times today who posited that Microsoft is late to cloud computing whilst the cover story of The Economist is “The Battle over cloud computing” and acknowledges that Microsoft has in fact been cloud Read More...
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from geekandpoke …though funny it’s technically not really right unless PC’s were doing virtualisation back then? tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2009/10/04/history-of-the-cloud.aspx'; tweetmeme_source = 'stevecla'; tweetmeme_service Read More...
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Microsoft Chicago Data Center Container Bay   I love Dave’s GreenM3 blog – it’s my go to place for data center news. So much so that I just got the info about our own Chicago data center opening over at his site. Of particular interest was the coverage Read More...
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I’m in sunny Dublin today (yep, it’s sunny here) for the grand opening of Microsoft’s first “ mega datacenter ” outside of the US. What you may ask is a mega datacenter? Well basically it’s an enormous facility from we’ll deliver our cloud services to Read More...
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I was in Redmond last week when the news broke about Apps.gov – the US governments moves in to the cloud and I was as surprised as a few others around me that Microsoft didn’t feature at all in the announcement or the portal for the effort. It’s a sterling Read More...
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Another classic from Geek & Poke . Shoot me if you hear me doing the cloud thing! tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2009/08/30/the-cloud-buzz.aspx'; tweetmeme_source = 'stevecla'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; Read More...
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Another fine post from Tom Bittman If You Build a Private Cloud, Will Anyone Come? . He helps cut through the noise around private clouds with a statement that could be applied to much more than just cloud computing   We’ve got to get our IT people Read More...
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Above The Clouds View more presentations from Steve Clayton .   A while back, the fine folks at Berkeley RAD Lab produced an excellent paper titled Above the Clouds: a Berkeley View of Cloud Computing .   A little less of a while ago, Pat Helland Read More...
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I was reading my feeds this morning and noticed a post from BusinessWeek titled Twitter Hack Highlights Cloud Risks . It caught my eye as the whole Twitter debacle of the last 24 hours has nothing to do with Cloud Risks and everything to do with poor Read More...
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A busy week for Azure and more to come next week at Worldwide Partner Conference. Meantime, Mary-Jo Foley provides a good update today on the interop status of Windows Azure. The team there is heads down cranking out code and this week and this week released Read More...
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Our Global Foundation Services team posted on their blog yesterday about two more mega data centers coming online next month:   July marks the launch of our two newest mega data centers in Chicago and Dublin. Our Dublin facility will go live on July Read More...
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[Photo: Simon Norfolk for The New York Times] The swinging door at Yahoo! continues as today we announced Kevin Timmons has joined Microsoft’s Infrastructure Services Team (aka GFS). I seem to talk more and more about GFS lately as our datacenters become Read More...
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  Though I get to do less direct customer and partner gigs in my current role, I still try to keep a regular “reality check” with both of them by meeting with partners who have become good friends and taking on customer presentations where I can. Read More...
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David Aiken provides a handy list of Azure Samples – something I’d asked of the product team recently. Bid Now Sample is an online store that reminds me we really ought to get Ticketmaster.com on Azure – every time U2 or someone big goes on tour their Read More...
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  [image credit – Wikipedia] It’s been a pretty cloudy week all in all for Microsoft and on this blog – I noticed Steve Ballmer talking cloud (albeit very briefly) at the Microsoft CEO Summit in Redmond yesterday. One other thing I noticed yesterday Read More...
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