I went in search of Azure Stack at Microsoft\u2019s Ignite event. I found a few\u00a0 in the Expo. It is now shipping and the Lenovo guy said they had sold a dozen or so already.<\/p>\n
Why Azure Stack? Microsoft\u2019s point is that it lets you run exactly the same application on premises or in its public cloud. The other thing is that although you have some maintenance burden \u2013 power, cooling, replacing bits if they break \u2013 it is pretty minimal; the configuration is done for you.<\/p>\n
I talked to one of the vendors about the impact on VMware, which dominates the market for virtualisation in the datacentre. My sense in the VMware vs Hyper-V debate is that VMware still has an edge, particularly in its management tools but Hyper-V is solid (aside from a few issues with Cluster Shared Volumes) and a lot less expensive. Azure Stack is Hyper-V of course; and the point the vendor made was that configuring an equivalent private cloud with VMware would be possible but hugely more expensive, not only in license cost but also in the skill needed to set it all up correctly.<\/p>\n
So I think this is a smart move from Microsoft.<\/p>\n
Why no Dell? They told me it was damaged in transit. Shame.<\/p>\n
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