Dave Bailey, Computing, Monday 12 July 2010 at 17:57:00
Auction site eBay signs up as early adopter and will deploy this year
Microsoft today unveiled a Windows Azure platform solution to address The Windows Azure platform system would tie in Windows Azure, Microsoft SQL Microsoft is calling the solution an appliance, but it will be The company has also announced tie-ups with hardware vendors Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer said earlier this year that he was The company is enabling Fujitsu to deploy Azure in Fujitsu datacentres, and Fujitsu explained that such a rollout will enable it to deliver a Fujitsu also said it would run its own applications on the Azure appliance, The Azure platform-based offerings will be available from its Japanese Microsoft explained that the first customer to run the product would be EBay technology vice president James Barrese said: "eBay has the right PC and server vendor Dell's strategic partnership with Microsoft will see the Dell Services president Peter Altabef said: "With the Microsoft partnership Microsoft's server and tools president Bob Muglia added: "We're giving A big problem for enterprises deploying public cloud services from Amazon,
enterprise private cloud infrastructures at its
Worldwide
Partner Conference in Washington DC.
Azure and a Microsoft-specified network, storage and server configuration.
platform-optimised for flexibility in terms of the scale of applications as well
as datacentre efficiency across thousands of servers.
Dell
and
HP,
as well as business ICT solution provider Fujitsu, and leading e-commerce web
site eBay.
"betting the company on cloud computing".
developed a Fujitsu-branded system for deployment in private companies'
datacentres.
comprehensive set of cloud services and solutions, including system integration,
cloud migration and managed services, to customers and independent software
vendors.
and brand its own hardware to support Azure.
datacentres, starting at the Fujitsu Tatebayashi System Center by the end of
2010. Further locations will be added the following year.
e-commerce site eBay, which will deploy the system this year.
blueprint for next-generation SaaS applications with our platform?s
architecture, scale and reliability, and [this appliance] will help eBay improve
our user experience."
company use the product to deliver these services to its customers as well as to
develop the appliance to run on its own hardware.
and this private cloud product, Dell is expanding its cloud services
capabilities to help customers reduce their total costs."
customers and partners the ability to deploy the Windows Azure platform in their
datacentres.?
Google and Microsoft is that firms can be left wondering in which country their
data is being stored, owing to countries' different regulatory environments.
Microsoft's private cloud system would address that problem.
Full story at http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2266337/microsoft-unveils-azure
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