Microsoft‘s official release last week of its cloud computing platform, Azure, gives developers the option to build applications in the cloud via Microsoft‘s data centers, rather than in a company’s server. Giving customers this sort of flexibility in IT and software development is important to customers looking for ways to reduce costs, bandwidth demands and management responsibilities. Flexibility in delivery models is also Microsoft‘s key differentiator over cloud giant Google.
Cloud computing has become a key piece of an enterprise’s IT strategy, typically used in a hybrid (cloud plus on-premise) model of computing that offers customers the best of both worlds:
Jessica Stewart says:
Google will always beat out Microsoft… no matter how you look at it they will always win.
16th June 2010 at 3:43 pm
cloudhostingguy says:
Although I don’t completely agree with you, I do think that Google has the money to throw at things to take out their competition.
16th June 2010 at 3:44 pm
Jessica Stewart says:
They should throw money at it… get them early in the game.
16th June 2010 at 3:45 pm