Rivals Microsoft and AWS engage in joint development project for cloud computing
May 12, 2013
Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Archana Venkatraman.
Public cloud rivals Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have collaborated to help users manage Windows workloads on AWS cloud more easily, with Microsoft launching the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) management pack for AWS.
The tool allows organisations running their Microsoft-based workloads at AWS to monitor their AWS resources directly in the Operations Manager console, eliminating the need for complex management consoles. It can monitor AWS EC2 instances (Windows and Linux), Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudFormation stacks, Auto Scaling groups and Elastic Beanstalk applications…
The cloud providers collaborated after seeing a demand from “very large enterprise customers”, Microsoft said in TechNet blog – a Microsoft program and resource for technical information for IT professionals…
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