Microsoft looks to empower IT in the cloud
May 4, 2015
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Sharon Gaudin.
Microsoft is working to help its enterprise customers move their data, apps and operations to the cloud – specifically the hybrid cloud. At its first Ignite conference in Chicago today, the company unveiled Microsoft Azure Stack, a collection of the company’s hyper-scale public cloud technologies that it uses for its own data centers.
The new Azure Stack software makes both the Azure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) software available so enterprises can use it in their own on-premises clouds. Microsoft also took the wraps off what it’s calling the Microsoft Operations Management Suite, a group of hybrid tools and software focused on managing enterprises’ workloads, regardless of where they are – on the Azure platform, Amazon Web Services, Linux, VMWAre, Windows Server or OpenStack…
"When we talk about cloud first, it is the cloud backend for all of your devices, all of your data," said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in a keynote speech. "We will consume data at unprecedented levels … Security, privacy, regulation all matter in the cloud. We are building the intelligent cloud. At the core of that is the backend infrastructure that drives all of your enterprise mobility needs, the agility you need to have new value and new applications."…
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