The next version of Windows Server features will be brought into Windows Azure

In the cloud layout, Microsoft keeps adding. In the cloud era of innovative companies such as Google, Apple and Amazon, veteran IT companies such as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and IBM have been unwilling to be a player, changing the rules of the game!

Azure is one of the big bets. October 27, 2008, Microsoft's Chief Software architect Ray Ozzie the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) to launch a cloud computing platform Windows azure--This brings Microsoft into a new era.

The bottom of the Azure service platform is Microsoft's next-generation cloud operating system, Windows Azure, which includes computing, storage, management, and so on. On top of the Windows Azure operating system, live services,.net services,sql services,share Point Services and Dynamics CRM services are running As the foundation for future Microsoft next-generation network services. "The technology we are proposing will change the rules of the game, and these technologies will enable our users to decide whether to deploy their applications on cloud-based Internet services or deploy them on the client side, or to combine the two in the light of actual needs." Ray Ozzie was still in a vivid mood. To run more apps on Azure, Microsoft was planning to raise the number of servers in the global data center to 15 times times over the next 5 years.

"On Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7," said Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft server and development tools at the ED 2010 conference in North America, New Orleans. We (the server team) have a common schedule with the client team's friends and work the same thing, and we're still doing it. ”

Bob Muglia stressed that Microsoft was still implementing a strategy that had been set many years ago, when servers and development tools alternated between major and minor upgrades every two years, the latest Windows Server 2008 R2 was the latter, and "there is no doubt that Windows A major upgrade for server.

However, he also pointed out that Microsoft has not given the next generation of operating systems to set the official code, and there is no specific new feature list, detailed release schedule is not there. "We're not talking a lot about the next version of Windows Server, but I think you'll see what we've learned from Windows Azure," he said, "and will return to Windows Server, like Windows Features in server, SQL Server are brought into Windows Azure, SQL Azure. ”

Cloud computing is an important form of Microsoft's "software services" strategy. As telecommunications service providers continue to invest in broadband IP networks in their wired and wireless networks, these service providers are seeking to create and deliver attractive value-added services in areas other than voice, such as unified communications, portals and search, mobility, television, music and gaming. Microsoft is providing services to these enterprises to promote the development of enterprises, the core of this idea is to work with communications companies to expand service channels.

Once telecom operators complete the infrastructure of the network, they will quickly turn their attention to advanced applications and provide more value-added services. Analysts say Microsoft's cloud computing users are using cloud services from a public cloud built by Microsoft. In the Microsoft cloud, each user is separated and accessed independently of the data center and storage resources in the public cloud. If customers need to build their own private cloud, then Microsoft becomes a cloud computing integrator's role.

As Microsoft's cloud strategy turns to business, how to handle the relationship between cloud business and traditional software business is a problem Microsoft has to face. At the same time, Microsoft's traditional software licensing model also faces a new combination of the cloud.

Microsoft has a 30-year history of selling software licenses at higher profit margins, and the question of how Microsoft's cloud services can benefit is at hand. "Microsoft is not afraid of cloud computing, welcome cloud computing, we have optimistic attitude to cloud computing." "Microsoft China Information Workers business Group general manager Chillimen said. Zhang also frankly said that each enterprise and organization to "cloud computing" and its future interpretation of more or less the integration of the enterprise's own business direction and practical interests.

Azure represents a new business model that needs to be perfected. Based on Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud Computing services, there are two main charging modes. One is the amount of resources used by the user to pay, one is based on the use of time to charge.

Microsoft's goal is to take a bigger share of corporate IT spending, not just to get software license revenue. It is reported that Microsoft in six areas including San Antonio, Chicago, Dublin, Amsterdam, Singapore and Hong Kong have azure "cloud" Service Platform data center, and recently, Microsoft is ready to open another new data center to carry more network load to provide better services.