Amazon Cloud on Ulitzer
I was surprised to find an Amazon Web Services booth at the Microsoft PDC
yesterday. They had nothing specific to say regarding additional Windows
support or capabilities - at least not officially. What I did get was a
wink-wink, nudge, nudge when I commented on Azure's integration with Active
Directory and other touchpoints. "This is coming soon," I was then told. Then
they saw that I had a media badge and that ended the discussion...
Looks like the enterprise is the battleground - which was only a matter of
time. Following the great enterprise roadmap preview I saw last week at the
RightScale user meeting in Santa Clara, this is quickly becoming a great
market for business computing.
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Amazon Cloud Journal
Back in July I wrote my post about databases in the cloud. The big surprise
that I discovered at the time was that the only “Native” RDBMS offering
in the cloud came from Microsoft. Microsoft SQL Azure (launching formally at
the PDC in a few weeks) is a mostly-compatible SQL Server as a Service
release complete with support for Transact SQL/TDS. SQL Azure is a
mul... (more)
Today RightScale did a webinar on their Cloud Business Intelligence offering
with Talend, Jaspersoft and Vertica. One of the bigger objections to cloud
BI in the past has been security — how can I move all of this mission
critical data to a public insecure cloud?
With Amazon VPC now in the picture, the BI datasets are now as secure at
Amazon as they are in your data center. Why wouldn’t... (more)
Cloud Computing on Ulitzer
Setting aside the shameless cloud-washing that’s going on from some
vendors, there are a lot of cloud service providers (CSPs – providers of
cloud) today. Many of those listed in SYS-CON’s Top 150 report are CSPs,
while others are providing extensions, tools or services for clouds.
Everybody’s a cloud provider these days – and as Larry Ellison recently
said “Al... (more)
I had a “discussion” on twitter a few weeks ago where I predicted that
Microsoft’s Windows Azure would be “the one to beat” in the enterprise.
It’s nice that companies are using Amazon and other clouds, but for the
80-90% of Windows/.NET applications that run your typical enterprise, Azure
will be king.
I’m at the PDC in LA today and in packed sessions of enterprise developers
and ISVs ... (more)
John Treadway is he Director, Cloud Computing Portfolio at Unisys. He's a senior enterprise technology marketing and business development executive with significant experience across horizontal IT and financial technology markets. John has founded or co-founded three companies and currently consults to a variety of technology businesses on marketing, strategy and cloud computing opportunities. Sites/Blogs
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