Microsoft to enable cloud computing services Windows Azure cloud computing Vista Unlimited

At any time, the emergence of new things will be accompanied by people's doubts and negative. Similarly, a new concept of the birth of a certain period of time will not be recognized by the user, or the market in the process of acceptance of the new concept will be observed and repeated, because the emergence of new things need a ruminant process, need to be constantly polished by the public acceptance and recognition, this is understandable. But cloud computing has broken this routine, showing a different degree of market acceptance. Because of this, many companies are playing cloud computing background and technology, a time cloud computing has become an unstoppable market trend.

Of course, we are concerned about the underlying or source of cloud computing opportunities and technical impact, in this regard, Microsoft's cloud computing is a natural application can not be ignored. After all, Microsoft itself is a platform of ownership and publisher, cloud computing for Microsoft is no exception, although at one time Microsoft's. NET strategy did not achieve the expected results. But cloud computing, after all, is not the Microsoft family, so the opportunity and development of cloud computing will be more significant. Microsoft is naturally unwilling to do so.

In fact, we have seen that the latest surveys published by foreign websites show that IT Pros are the most interested in analytics, cloud and collaboration technologies, while technology such as open source and ERP is gradually fading out of sight. Of these, the first of the top ten key technology areas in 2010 was cloud computing. Of the 405 IT professionals surveyed, 57% of the respondents included cloud computing as part of the analysis or were experimenting with the technology. It can be seen that the future of cloud computing is well worth looking forward to.

In addition, we see Microsoft's layout of cloud computing has been in the busy. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a recent speech about cloud computing that Microsoft's future is on the cloud. Mr Ballmer thinks other companies are too one-sided about cloud computing, which he believes can look at five levels of cloud computing. Cloud technology, the size of the cloud, the cloud to enhance people's social and professional interaction, the cloud needs more intelligent devices, Cloud Drive server progress, and vice versa. Ballmer spoke a lot. What we can feel is Microsoft's one layout and future expectation of cloud computing.

Mr Ballmer said that while Microsoft's main business was still desktop software such as Windows and office, Mr. Ballmer said the company currently employs about 70% of its staff in cloud-related projects, which will reach 90% per cent a year. "Cloud computing is driving Microsoft's progress, and Microsoft, in turn, is driving the development of cloud computing," Mr Ballmer said. ”

We also see that Microsoft Cloud Computing Services Windows Azure is enabled. The purchase section of Windows Azure Services on Microsoft's official website has been activated, including getting Started (introductory Special), developing the accelerator core (Development accelerator cores), developing accelerated extensions ( Development accelerator Extended), consumption four categories. In the development process of IT industry, each enterprise has been accustomed to running software on the terminal of the regional, but with the sudden mengjin of Internet technology, many enterprises have already started to use cloud computing to run software. In theory at least, with the use of cloud computing, consumers can save money to buy and maintain hardware devices, while suppliers will earn revenue by providing a new way of storing data and other online services. This is undoubtedly a way or a change of mode.

We see that Microsoft Cloud computing platform Windows Azure is a start, Microsoft Cloud computing platform Windows Azure Strategy is "cloud + End" (End: PC, mobile phone, TV). Microsoft has gradually migrated some of the original client products to the cloud, such as SQL,. NET, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, and so on. In addition, Microsoft has launched the cloud applications operating environment based on the Azure platform, Windows Azure platform AppFabric, and related development kits to help users and developers to migrate and develop applications based on Windows Azure platform

As one of Microsoft's rivals, IBM is also complacent in the area of cloud computing. According to Gartner, an authoritative market research organization, sales in the global cloud computing market in 2009 amounted to $56.3 billion trillion, up 21% from the previous year, and IDC, the information technology consultancy, predicts that by 2013, cloud computing services will account for nearly one-third of the overall IT spending growth. Merrill Lynch, for its merrilllynch, expects the global cloud computing market to reach $95 billion trillion over the next 5 years.

It is reported that IBM has smashed more than 20 billion U.S. dollars for mergers and acquisitions, development cloud computing, and Microsoft's competition has entered a close phase. Prior to the launch of IBM, including IBM, AMD, EMC, Sun, SAP, VMware and other industry-renowned chips, storage, virtualization, software, and other dozens of manufacturers and organizations, together signed a "Open Cloud computing Manifesto" for the Open cloud computing a number of principles, To ensure the interoperability of future cloud computing. However, the manifesto was resisted by Microsoft, which unveiled the Azure platform, with EC2, the famous Amazon (Amazon), the apps Google and Salesforce and other cloud pioneers who refused to sign the manifesto.

It is reported that those who require the establishment of standards of manufacturers or organizations, the signing of the Declaration is in fact for their own interests. They lag behind in the competition for cloud computing, so use the standard to simplify the pace of development in order to catch up. Through Azure, Microsoft hopes to develop its own cloud computing market with the influence of its software and industry and its already large number of corporate clients. Obviously, this will make Windows a "sharp weapon" in Microsoft's hands, as many corporate and individual consumers are already familiar with how to make and run windows-based software, and Azure can lead them to easily extend these software to the Web.

Not long ago, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard announced a partnership, they will invest 250 million dollars in the next 3 years, cooperation for corporate users to provide cloud computing products and services, and Oracle and IBM and other one-stop technology companies to compete. Both sides see the partnership as "one of the world's largest technology companies working with top software companies to push cloud computing into the industry's most integrated technology portfolio." Cloud computing enables users to store their data in external terminals, thereby saving system maintenance costs. In the public cloud space, the data is stored on the network. Microsoft's confidence in cloud computing is no doubt the future. We continue to look at the details of Microsoft's ability to gain more opportunities in its area of cloud. Of course, commercial competition has just started, and there are many good things in the future that deserve our attention. As technology progresses, we naturally get more application experience and experience, which in itself is a kind of social progress brought about by technology.