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Cloud pricing: is Azure competitive?

By dlambert ⋅ October 8, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

Now that Azure’s pricing model is starting to take shape, we’re starting to see what Microsoft meant when they said Azure would be priced “competitively”.  This week, Oakleaf Systems compared Azure to Amazon’s cloud offerings, highlighting costs for developers to gets started on these platforms (Amazon Undercuts Windows Azure Table and SQL Azure Costs with [...]

Self-Managing distributed applications

By dlambert ⋅ October 2, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

I recently read about the SELFMAN project on ReadWriteWeb (Coming Soon: Internet Apps that Heal Themselves).  This project, started in 2006, aims to standardize and package the infrastructure needed to manage large-scale distributed applications.  So far, they’ve produced some sample / reference applications using components written in Java.  I don’t know if the bits themselves [...]

What, exactly, is wrong with “Private Clouds”?

By dlambert ⋅ February 2, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

Image via Wikipedia I recently saw an interesting post by Gordon Haff that claims that cloud computing concepts can’t really be applied to enterprises smaller in scale than the Googles, Microsofts, and Amazons of the world. Humbug, I say.  I certainly didn’t have that impression when I learned about Azure. I’ll concede that there aren’t [...]

Could Azure be self-hosted?

By dlambert ⋅ November 3, 2008 ⋅ View Comments

In response to my Azure reaction, James Bender pointed out that Azure, in its current form, really wouldn’t make sense as a self-hosted platform.  Rather than burying this point in a comment, I’m going to talk about it here, because this positioning (by Microsoft) is pivotal, and it’s crucial for Microsoft‘s future. First, I think [...]

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