Well it's a weird time in the IT industry at the moment.
Cloud is the buzzword of the decade, and a real service that businesses of all shapes and sizes are interested in.
To clarify, cloud simply means an app or server running remotely and potentially managed by someone else.
The concept is nothing new.
It's more that the network bandwidth and virtualisation platforms have now (well, it's early days) caught up to what people have wanted for a long time.
Think of the now as what the early 2000's was for LCD TV's.
Cloud is new on the scene, mostly works, is pretty expensive and there aren't many players.
Yet.
Azure Cloud.
I really see this as a last ditch effort from Microsoft to stay relevant (which I realise with a little sadness).
I'm someone who has grown up with Windows 3.11, 95, 98, 98SE, XP, 2K Pro, NT4 Server, 2000 Server, 2003 Server, 2008 Server, 2008R2 Server and now find myself sitting here asking "now what"?
As sad as this is, let's look at where things really are in terms of server based apps these days.
Most apps are web based.
For the remainder of OS based apps your company still depends upon, it generally makes sense (provided you have the appropriate budget to purchase the relative bandwidth - which we'll talk about more later) to move to "cloud" services for remote virtual server instances.
Things like active directory, legacy apps etc.
Application functionality is very limited due to smart device interfaces.
Everything is dumbed down.
This is perfect for moving to a cloud computing model as the demands are not that great.
Cloud is the buzzword of the decade, and a real service that businesses of all shapes and sizes are interested in.
To clarify, cloud simply means an app or server running remotely and potentially managed by someone else.
The concept is nothing new.
It's more that the network bandwidth and virtualisation platforms have now (well, it's early days) caught up to what people have wanted for a long time.
Think of the now as what the early 2000's was for LCD TV's.
Cloud is new on the scene, mostly works, is pretty expensive and there aren't many players.
Yet.
Azure Cloud.
I really see this as a last ditch effort from Microsoft to stay relevant (which I realise with a little sadness).
I'm someone who has grown up with Windows 3.11, 95, 98, 98SE, XP, 2K Pro, NT4 Server, 2000 Server, 2003 Server, 2008 Server, 2008R2 Server and now find myself sitting here asking "now what"?
As sad as this is, let's look at where things really are in terms of server based apps these days.
Most apps are web based.
For the remainder of OS based apps your company still depends upon, it generally makes sense (provided you have the appropriate budget to purchase the relative bandwidth - which we'll talk about more later) to move to "cloud" services for remote virtual server instances.
Things like active directory, legacy apps etc.
Application functionality is very limited due to smart device interfaces.
Everything is dumbed down.
This is perfect for moving to a cloud computing model as the demands are not that great.
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