Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
How much money do cloud providers make?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: May 27, 2011
- In: Market
- 3 Comments
Don’s recent attempt to look at financials of 10 publicly traded “cloud” companies got me willing to expand his research to a bigger picture. After all, limiting the scope to 100% cloud companies really skews the charts to “Salesforce.com and everyone else” leaving such cloud juggernauts as Amazon and Google out of the picture. As [...]
What Satya Nadella means to Azure future
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 11, 2011
- In: Microsoft
- 2 Comments
With the recent changes in the leadership of one of Microsoft’s key business units – Server and Tools – from Bob Muglia to Satya Nadella one can’t help speculating what this means for the business unit and how it will affect Microsoft’s cloud strategy, specifically Windows Azure – Microsoft’s platform as a service. Here’s my uneducated [...]
Azure Appliance – a Turn-Key Private Cloud?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: July 14, 2010
Maybe not just yet unless you are an extremely large hosting company or enterprise with big IT and research and development (R&D) budgets. To re-cap, this week at its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) Microsoft announced that together with their hardware partners they will start offering (some time later this year as a limited release for [...]
Adobe Flash on the road to nowhere
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 22, 2010
- In: Technology
- 4 Comments
This Wednesday was probably the first day on the (potentially long) path to Adobe Flash decline: the most popular video site out there – YouTube – started offering videos in Flash-less mode for browsers which support HTML 5 and h.264 video codec. This means that today the option is available for Chrome and Safari. Then [...]
Details on Quest OnDemand
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 8, 2010
Ben Riga posted a video recording with a fairly detailed discussion we had at Microsoft PDC about Quest OnDemand (Quest’s Systems Management as a Service offering): In that discussion we have covered quite a few topic which I hope you will find interesting: What is Systems Management as a Service and how it is different [...]
Windows 7 – Microsoft’s First Step to the Cloud
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 13, 2009
Pundits talking about how Windows 7 is all about Microsoft competing against Apple, recovering with Vista consumer adoption disaster, or getting people off of XP, are missing one other – extremely important – part of the Windows 7 story. Windows 7 and its server counterpart – Windows Server 2008 R2 – are actually the first [...]
My TechEd Sessions
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: May 7, 2009
If you are at Microsoft TechEd next week there will be a few sessions I will be giving there: Birds-of-a-Feather,”Going to the Cloud: Are We Crazy?” Dmitry Sotnikov, 4:30 p.m. Tuesday May 12, room 501A – this one is IT-oriented discussion of risks and benefits of putting your IT systems into the cloud. PowerShell Ask [...]
IDC: System Management going SaaS
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: April 15, 2009
- In: Analysts
- 2 Comments
“Worldwide System Management SaaS 2009 Vendor Analysis: Economic Crisis Creates Opportunities” is an excellent recent report by IDC. Software as a Service started in consumer web, and then expanded into end-user-oriented business and collaboration sites (Salesforce.com, Google Apps). The question is whether the model can go from this to administrative tools so IT people can [...]
My Azure session at TEC
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 23, 2009
Just got a note from The Experts Conference organizers that my session on Azure and identity management got into the agenda. Active Directory, User Identity and Azure/BPOS for IT Professionals In this session we will dive into identity management, federation and sign-on process for Windows Azure and Microsoft’s BPOS products such as Exchange Online and [...]
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