Microsoft’s Azure to combine the best of Amazon and Google
By Tarry Singh at 4 May, 2009, 4:30 am
Enter Doug Hauger, general manager of cloud infrastructure services and former chief operating officer of Microsoft India. Hauger gave a talk last Thursday evening, organized by the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), in which he spelled out Microsoft’s world view of cloud computing. Hauger said his goal was to convey, “What are we thinking about cloud, and what should people be thinking about?”
It was the final event in a four-part WTIA cloud computing series, which included talks by Amazon, Google, and Terremark. Thursday’s event also had a demo from Ian Knox of Seattle-based Skytap, showing how companies can run Microsoft’s development software in the cloud, and use Skytap’s cloud-computing platform to set up virtual environments for doing testing and debugging; Microsoft is one of Skytap’s partners. But what most people were wondering was how Microsoft is positioning itself versus Amazon and Google in the competition for cloud services.
Hauger, a Boston University alum, didn’t say anything particularly earth-shattering, and he didn’t give very many specifics about Windows Azure—which is fair enough, since the product isn’t out there yet. He did clarify that it’s pronounced “AZH-ure,” with the emphasis on the first syllable (sort of rhymes with “badger”)—at least that’s how Hauger says it.
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