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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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