Microsoft Announces Azure Stack

barranger wrote: post #3

scaladdin wrote: post #2

Let's bring Azure into the trash!

Any particular reason for not liking Azure, or just taking out Monday morning frustration on the world?

because microsoft. its e-cool to hate microsoft

Re: Microsoft Announces Azure Stack

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Post by la6470 » Mon, May 04, 2015, 3:33 PM UTC

It's not clear which X as a service will on premise Azure provide? While it is relatively easy to run virtual machines on private cloud platforms from vmware, Openstack and maybe now azure , it is notoriously difficult to provision DB or LB as a service or any of the other services

Re: Microsoft Announces Azure Stack

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Post by BF179580656B » Mon, May 04, 2015, 3:34 PM UTC

h43k3r wrote: post #5

Can anybody explain me in layman terms what this means? I understand that Azure is Microsoft's Cloud Platform that provides services through which you can deploy your application on cloud. Does this mean that you can run Azure on your own datacenter like Microsoft is doing currently?

I don't think so. Given how many types of customer's microsoft serves, I think it's a good move. Many of microsoft customer are old sensitive business of banking, healthcare which have tons of regulation and being able to use Azure in their own data center is a really help them modernize their software stack.

Re: Microsoft Announces Azure Stack

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Post by mc32 » Mon, May 04, 2015, 3:34 PM UTC

These kinds of developments can't make VMware happy. I have not understood why VMware never made a big iaas play when it had the chance to compete before others became established and established mindshare. I only guess they didn't want to compete against themselves, which is understandable but shortsighted.

Re: Microsoft Announces Azure Stack

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Post by minot » Mon, May 04, 2015, 3:42 PM UTC

BF179580656B wrote: post #8

h43k3r wrote: post #5

Can anybody explain me in layman terms what this means? I understand that Azure is Microsoft's Cloud Platform that provides services through which you can deploy your application on cloud. Does this mean that you can run Azure on your own datacenter like Microsoft is doing currently?

I don't think so. Given how many types of customer's microsoft serves, I think it's a good move. Many of microsoft customer are old sensitive business of banking, healthcare which have tons of regulation and being able to use Azure in their own data center is a really help them modernize their software stack.

Moreover, I don't know how we could undercut Microsoft on price either. I mean Azure and all of Microsoft Cloud Services(being Microsoft) probably gets Microsoft Windows licenses and all the licenses for free of cost and people like Rack space would have to pay for the licenses...

The only thing we could do is become better than Microsoft at reliability (hah!) and customer service (which there might be a shot at in the short term).