Everyone suspected that Windows Azure was not a blazing success. Now the
official stats seem to suggest that it is pretty much a failure.
Microsoft does not tell the exact number of users it has on their cloud
platform – Windows Azure, however a couple of day ago we got the latest
vague estimate from the company. Quoting Mary Jo:
“On May 8, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Azure Marketing Bob Kelly
provided Merrill Lynch Technology Conference attendees with another tally
tidbit. Kelly said Microsoft now has “high tens of thousands of
customers” for Windows Azure.”
That was it, so now let me try to interpret what we have heard:
I assume that “high tens of thousands” means 50,000 to 100,000 customers,
Is that for paying customers or does that include free ones? I assume that if
they were paying – Bob would have told us so, Does that include
Microsoft’s own teams?... (more)
As the world is moving to online in general and cloud in particular, what is
going to happen to the $40 bln hosting industry?
Parallels (which is probably the largest software vendor for hosters)
published video recordings from their Parallels Summit 2012, including this
keynote fro their founder Serguei Beloussov. At 31:51 mark he talks about the
area near and dear to my heart – Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and
specifically Jelastic in which I work. Check it out and see if you share
Serguei’s views on where the industry is going:
... (more)
Dmitry Sotnikov's Blog
Overall, very exciting times, and a great event put together by the folks at
SYS-CON! There was a lot of excitement and optimism throughout the event. As
someone put it: cloud computing is about 700 days old. That means that there
are a lot of arguments about definitions, and where things are going, and so
on. And that also gives a lot of vibe and a lot of fresh community spirit.
Below are my notes from all the sessions I attended at the last week’s
Cloud Computing Expo 2008 on:
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
A few general comments on the conference.
First and foremost,... (more)
Azure Session at Cloud Expo
Pundits talking about how Windows 7 is all about Microsoft competing against
Apple, recovering with Vista consumer adoption disaster, or getting people
off of XP, are missing one other – extremely important – part of the
Windows 7 story. Windows 7 and its server counterpart – Windows Server 2008
R2 – are actually the first real step in Microsoft’s Windows Cloud Story.
Before Windows 7 Microsoft could offer some services (such as Exchange
Online) from the cloud – but could not provide full enterprise directory,
security and so on – now they can.
Micros... (more)
Analysts should love hype – it lets them jump into a hot area and be the
thought leaders who everyone has to consult to make any sense out of what is
going on in the area.
“Cloud” is probably the most hyped word in the industry these days and
everyone has a definition of what it is. And despite this being a running
joke in the industry, everyone obviously needs definition conversion to
happen so we can start speaking the same language here.
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) stepped in and did
– from my perspective – something truly amazing: they provided ... (more)
Dmitry Sotnikov has over ten years of experience working in the Windows management area, and is the author of multiple whitepapers, a regular blogger - at 
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