Microsoft in the Cloud
You may know us for
Redmond magazine and our associated Web site. But
did you know that we have four other magazines, including
Redmond
Channel Partner, aimed at Microsoft VARs and integrators;
Visual
Studio Magazine, aimed at programmers;
Virtualization
Review for IT folks; and
Redmond
Developer News (RDN) for development managers?
Two RDN reporters attended our recent VSLive!
New York show and came away with a better understanding of Microsoft's
cloud plans. Microsoft believes that much of what's in your datacenter right
now will move to the cloud. In fact, nearly everything that's essentially me-too
software -- such as database, e-mail and CRM -- will be remote.
While you may lament the lack of control, ultimately cloud computing could
save us loads of electricity. And because the software runs in massive, centralized
datacenters, security may well improve. Tell me where I'm wrong at [email protected].
Meanwhile, here's
a cover story we did on Ray Ozzie's cloud plans.
Posted by Doug Barney on September 15, 2008