Microsoft brings fight to AWS with first full IaaS offering
April 16, 2013
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Nick Heath.
Microsoft challenged AWS today by making its infrastructure–as-a-service (IaaS) offering generally available and committing to match AWS for the price of storage and compute in the cloud. The Redmond-based software giant said its IaaS offering will allow businesses to migrate virtual machines running on Hyper-V from their internal datacentre to Windows Azure public cloud.
Microsoft has offered the service since last year, but today’s general availability means the introduction of monthly SLAs guaranteeing 99.95 percent availability for the service and 24/7 support, as well as the ability to run VMs on Azure servers with 28GB and 56GB of memory, compared to the previous limit of 14GB…
In practice Michael Newberry, Windows Azure lead for Microsoft UK, said Microsoft expected the availability of SLAs would mean companies would begin migrating existing production workloads from their datacentres to Azure, rather than just using Azure infrastructure as a test and development platform – which has mainly been the case to date. "We want to make to make our cloud OS the place where you can take enterprise applications, both new and existing ones," he said…
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