Microsoft Cloud Patent Filing Meets Resistance -- Redmond Channel Partner

Pender's Blog by Lee Pender, RCPU Editor

Microsoft Cloud Patent Filing Meets Resistance

Redmond's attempt to patent the process by which companies move data between clouds isn't terribly popular with vendor Vordel, which provides a "broker" service that...moves data between clouds.

Also, in case you missed it, private cloud functionality is coming to Azure (we think, anyway), a development likely brought on, notes my boss, Doug Barney, by a lack of trust in vendor-run datacenters among IT folks.

Posted by Lee Pender on December 02, 2009

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