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Microsoft Announces Azure Stack

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Re: Microsoft Announces Azure Stack

#11
Dear MS.

Thanks for going open source with dotNet. We will use it on our Linuxes and BSDs, with gratitude and joy.

But when it comes to your intention of bringing your non-open-source'ed software to our data centers: we were actually almost finished taking them out, and feel much better that way.

Re: Microsoft Announces Azure Stack

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post #11

Dear MS. Thanks for going open source with dotNet. We will use it on our Linuxes and BSDs, with gratitude and joy. But when it comes to your intention of bringing your non-open-source'ed software to our data centers: we were actually almost finished taking them out, and feel much better that way.

Microsoft is on par with Linux and BSD machines. Until you are reading all the source code, there's no point in switching to Linux or BSD if you're already using Microsoft. Microsoft has the best and robust tools for the job.

Re: Microsoft Announces Azure Stack

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post #11

Dear MS. Thanks for going open source with dotNet. We will use it on our Linuxes and BSDs, with gratitude and joy. But when it comes to your intention of bringing your non-open-source'ed software to our data centers: we were actually almost finished taking them out, and feel much better that way.

Microsoft is on par with Linux and BSD machines. Until you are reading all the source code, there's no point in switching to Linux or BSD if you're already using Microsoft. Microsoft has the best and robust tools for the job.

Not quite... when I run into an issue with my Linux machine, I can trace the code all the way down to the kernel.

When I run into a problem with my Windows machine, I have to resort to random searches and hoping that someone else has seen it.

Re: Microsoft Announces Azure Stack

#14
post #9

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.

VMWare's biggest competitor was itself and it's EMC linkage. IMO, moving towards IaaS t-shirt sized VMs makes it easier to architect around high cost stuff in the datacenter, like SAN.

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This has been a consistent direction from Microsoft for some time. When Microsoft talks about private cloud or hybrid cloud, they refer to a design approach in which infrastructure and applications are separated. Even today, using the latest versions of Windows Server and System Center, you can manage physical hardware, storage and networking as a "fabric" and even offer self-service server provisioning.

In large shops, this allows for a real separation of roles between infrastructure and applications. I think this is a useful separation. Even in small shops where the same people are doing everything, this mental separation enables better management. Many small and medium sized businesses still operate in the mode that deploying an application or a major upgrade involves starting with deploying a new server.

Re: Microsoft Announces Azure Stack

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post #11

Dear MS. Thanks for going open source with dotNet. We will use it on our Linuxes and BSDs, with gratitude and joy. But when it comes to your intention of bringing your non-open-source'ed software to our data centers: we were actually almost finished taking them out, and feel much better that way.

You sure about that? They're doing better than Rackspace and Google:

http://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/RightScal...

Re: Microsoft Announces Azure Stack

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post #15

This has been a consistent direction from Microsoft for some time. When Microsoft talks about private cloud or hybrid cloud, they refer to a design approach in which infrastructure and applications are separated. Even today, using the latest versions of Windows Server and System Center, you can manage physical hardware, storage and networking as a "fabric" and even offer self-service server provisioning. In large sho…

I was in the Azure TAP program many years ago and they talked about this extensively to the participants. I would echo the consistency of direction on this. I had a vague sense that it was an attempt to quell enterprise fears about the cloud and lock-in, but perhaps not.

Re: Microsoft Announces Azure Stack

#18
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?

Yes.

Key phrases: "enterprise on-premise data center" and "private cloud solution for IT pros and makes it easier for developers to scale their apps across their existing data centers and then boost to the cloud if they need more capacity on short notice" (emphasis mine).

The "Azure Stack" with those features apparently won't be available until 2016, however.

Re: Microsoft Announces Azure Stack

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post #11

Dear MS. Thanks for going open source with dotNet. We will use it on our Linuxes and BSDs, with gratitude and joy. But when it comes to your intention of bringing your non-open-source'ed software to our data centers: we were actually almost finished taking them out, and feel much better that way.

.net is a bridgehead.

Re: Microsoft Announces Azure Stack

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft is on par with Linux and BSD machines. Until you are reading all the source code, there's no point in switching to Linux or BSD if you're already using Microsoft. Microsoft has the best and robust tools for the job.

Not quite... when I run into an issue with my Linux machine, I can trace the code all the way down to the kernel. When I run into a problem with my Windows machine, I have to resort to random searches and hoping that someone else has seen it.

What percentage of Linux users do you think have the capability or the desire to spend their time tracing calls through various libraries and kernel source?

When I run into a problem on my Linux machine, I typically have to do a lot of searching. More searching than I must do with Windows, because while there is generally only one Windows (at least relative to Linux), there are hundreds of Linuxes, distros and versions of those distros - many that are majorly different than the previous version.

Do you think it's easier for the average Linux user to find answers?

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