Another huge heaving grunt of a move as Microsoft shifts its great fat rear to sit more comfortably on the changing furniture of the computing industry and offer cloud computing services. It could be very bad news indeed for the storage industry.Microsoft's Azure Services Platform - ASP as in 'we've been here before, surely' - lets customers have their data centre applications run in Microsoft data centres. Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, said he was building an infrastructure for the next fifty years: "We need to lay the groundwork with new types of system and storage applications for a world of parallel computing."
Microsoft joins Amazon and Google in offering cloud computing services and cites IDC, which says cloud computing will grow 16 per cent a year through to 2012. That's grim.
If we can all avoid using 'ASP', finding Azure info via search engines in the future will be easier and much confusion can be avoided.
Thanks!
Daniel, another thing I would like to mention, and I'm not trying to bust your chops or anything, but the word is percent.
A piggy bank grows per cent.
Cheers.
Daniel, another thing I would like to mention, and I'm not trying to bust your chops or anything, but the word is
percent
.
A piggy bank grows per cent.
Cheers.
99% of Neowin content is copy-n-paste from another web site. I don't think the "source" link is as obvious as the previous web site design but it is there. Neowin is a news filter site and tech forums. It is not an original content site (although there is some oc).
Essentially "Cloud Computing" means that all your apps are running on the server, with your user interface being a web browser.
There are no benefits of using it, as far as I can see, and you loose a lot of privacy, creative control, and user independence. Stay away.
In the immortal words of Admiral Acbar: "It's a trap!"
There are no benefits of using it, as far as I can see, and you loose a lot of privacy, creative control, and user independence. Stay away.
In the immortal words of Admiral Acbar: "It's a trap!"
It doesn't have to be via a browser. There are loads of benefits, main one being having data wherever you are, wherever you go without syncing etc. Privacy can be controlled to an extent. There's up and downsides to everything.
P.S. It's Ackbar
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