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Is Microsoft Azure now a billion dollar business? Maybe, maybe not. The milestone was announced by Curt Anderson, CFO for Server and Tools at Microsoft, in this Bloomberg piece: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)’s Windows Azure software and related programs have surpassed $1 billion in annual sales for the first time … Microsoft’s $1 billion sales figure …continue reading Billion dollar revenue or not, Microsoft Azure is growing fast What happened in 2012? Windows 8 Whether you regard it as the beginning of the end for Windows, or a moment of rebirth, for me it was the year of Windows 8. Microsoft’s new Windows is fascinating on several levels: as a bold strategic move to make a desktop operating system into a tablet operating …continue reading Android up, Apple down, Microsoft so near, so far: 2012 in review Last week Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos spoke at a “Fireside Chat” with AWS (Amazon Web Services) chief Werner Vogels. It was an excellent and inspirational performance from Bezos. If there was a common theme, it was his belief in the merit of low margins, which of necessity keep a business efficient. Low margins …continue reading The disruption of pay as you go hardware – and I do not mean leasing I attended Amazon’s AWS (Amazon Web Services) Update in London. This was not a major news event; more a chance to catch up on what is new with Amazon’s cloud services, the dominant force in cloud computing infrastructure. One thing that caught my interest is the speed which which Amazon is rolling out new features. …continue reading Catching up with Amazon’s cloud services I set up Windows 8 on my desktop PC, accepting the default Do Not Track setting. This is still set: However I noticed Amazon ads served by Google/DoubleClick on a third-party site that reflected my recent activity on Amazon. I clicked the Privacy link on the ad (which links to Amazon rather than Google) …continue reading IE10 and Do Not Track: ineffective with Amazon ads Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server offers cloud instances of SQL Server. Amazon’s offering even supports “License Mobility”, Microsoft jargon that lets volume licensing customers use an existing SQL Server license for an Amazon’s instance. But how does Amazon’s cloud SQL Server compare with Microsoft’s own offering, SQL Database running on Azure? Peter Marriott has …continue reading Microsoft SQL Azure versus SQL Server on Amazon AWS I am at the Cloud Computing World Forum in London where one of the highlights was a keynote yesterday from Amazon CTO Werner Vogels. Amazon, oddly enough, does not have a stand here; yet the company dominates the IAAS (Infrastructure as a service) market and has moved beyond that into more PAAS (Platform as a …continue reading Amazon web service APIs: a kind of cloud standard? During Mobile World Congress I met with some folk from Twilio, the cloud telephony company, who said something that interested me. Twilio uses Amazon Web Service (AWS) for its infrastructure and told me that essentially there is no choice, AWS is the only cloud provider which can scale on demand quickly and smoothly as required. …continue reading How Amazon Web Services dominate infrastructure as a service Amazon is offering Android developers $50 of AWS (Amazon Web Services) credit if they submit an app to the Amazon Android app store. Although the announcement refers to apps that actually make use of AWS, this does not seem to be a pre-condition: September 7 – November 15: Android developers who submit an app that …continue reading Amazon entices Android developers with $50 incentive |
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