Cloud computing makes for some strange bedfellows
November 16, 2014
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
Last week there was so much going on at AWS Re:invent, I missed a lot – even some eyebrow-raising stuff. Like for instance, that OpenStack-oriented Rackspace will now support and sell Microsoft Azure services. Second, Microsoft-oriented Apprenda private PaaS will now run on Amazon Web Services.
First Rackspace. It joined the Microsoft Cloud OS Network meaning it will run Windows Server, Hyper-V, System Center and Azure Pack in its U.S. data centers. That means it will provide service and support to its customers for all that infrastructure as well as Microsoft applications like Exchange, SharePoint and Lync running on that stack…
According to the release, this new arrangement “gives customers the choice to host applications on Microsoft-based private clouds with hybrid connections to Azure, as well as associated other services from Rackspace. More here from Informationweek…
Read more from the source @ https://gigaom.com/2014/11/16/welcome-to-the-sorta-trampy-world-of-cloud-computing/