Cloud Computing: Unexpected hardware limits on Microsoft’s Azure Stack vex some developers

July 13, 2016 Off By David

Grazed from GeekWire. Author: Dan Richman.

Azure Stack, the important hybrid-cloud product that Microsoft announced in January, will be more limited than some developers hoped. Now in Technical Preview 1, Azure Stack is intended to help companies bridge on-premises and in-cloud computing — a challenge that many companies face as they move toward the cloud and assess which apps should run where.

Azure Stack’s promise is that developers can write a single application that runs unaltered on-premises or in Azure, and that management and automation tools will run equally well in both locations. Today, Microsoft VP Mike Neil wrote that Azure Stack’s general release, targeted for mid-2017, will combine software, hardware, support and services — and will be available only from Dell, HPE and Lenovo, at least initially…

Customers have strongly indicated that simplicity and speed of development are paramount, trumping the ability to customize at the infrastructure level, he said, and “a pre-validated systems approach helps simplify the operational experience for customers.”…

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