Whilst lagging behind Google in delivering its cloud offering, Microsoft can never be discounted.
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Events
- Morgan Hill, Amazon and Taylor Wessing. The cloud: financial, legal and technical
- Tuesday, 14th Sep 2010
- The City Club
- London EC2N 1DS
- Amazon Web Services in the Data Centre
- Monday, 20th Sep 2010
- Webinar
- Amazon Web Services as part of a DR Strategy
- Monday, 27th Sep 2010
- Webinar
- Financial Systems and IT Cost Transparency
- Monday, 4th Oct 2010
- Webinar
For all its dominance in the software and operating system sectors, this is Microsoft’s first cloud offering, so it enters the cloud market behind leaders such as Amazon, Google and AT&T, and still needs to prove itself here.
Azure is a Windows-as-a-service platform that not only includes the operating system, making Windows available via the cloud, but also developer tools designed for building web-based applications.
Given Microsoft’s historic attitude to licensing it’s software, it is not yet certain what implications the Azure offering will have on vendor lock-in, which to an extent goes against the whole cloud philosophy of buyer choice.