2015 Predictions: Microsoft Believes in Clouds Everywhere

Grazed from VirtualizationReview. Author: Keith Ward.

At Microsoft, our 2015 predications for virtualization and cloud fall into a few categories, moving up the stack from the fundamental philosophy on the software deployed to build and manage your infrastructure, to the most efficient means for deployment to connecting with cloud services.

Acceleration of the Software-Defined Datacenter. Most of today’s enterprise organizations have garnered a lot of efficiency and economic value over the last decade through the virtualization of their servers. These customers are now evaluating the best way to extend these efficiencies to other parts of their infrastructures; namely, storage and networking…

We believe that 2015 will see a large acceleration in the adoption of solutions targeting software-defined storage and software-defined networking. In our Microsoft Azure datacenters, we leverage industry-standard hardware and then provide the necessary performance and resiliency through software. We believe this is the future for our customers, as well, but it requires a different approach to infrastructure operations…

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