Cloud Computing: Microsoft brings two open source tools to Azure
July 23, 2014
Grazed from ITWorld. Joab Jackson.
Following through on promises from new CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft continues to add support for non-Microsoft technologies, allowing them to run well on the company’s Azure cloud hosting platform. "There are a wide variety of platforms and technologies that developers and IT managers like to use.
We’re just trying to assure that regardless of your choice, it will work well on Azure " said Doug Mahugh, a technology evangelist for Microsoft Open Technologies, a subsidiary that develops software and tools for non-Microsoft platforms. "Our decisions about where to invest are very much driven by what is popular with developers," he said…
The company has partnered with two organizations that offer popular open source programs for managing cloud resources — Packer and OpenNebula. Microsoft is releasing drivers that will make it easy to use the programs on Azure, as well as with Microsoft server software for in-house deployments…
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