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Azure rising: MS will be largest Cloud Service by 2019

• DamnYuppie 10y ago
  Having used both Amazon's Web Services and Azure I am not surprised by this one bit. Once you get past basic hosting and storage Microsoft's offerings are deeper and better integrated. Also they are bringing out Azure Stack which will let you run Azure on prem. I don't believe this will be ready until 2017 and yes they have specific hardware requirements so you can't just plop it down in an existing data center but I do like the concept and direction.
• herbst 10y ago
  It does look a bit better (not good IMO, but amazon is way worse) but it is still Microsoft, with their main competency being Windows. Most applications don't usually run on Windows, a lot would simply perform worse. I don't see this happening, really.
  • mindcrime 10y ago
    Likewise, I have a hard time buying this. Azure is better than what I would expect from MS in many ways, but it's still Microsoft. Granted, you can run Linux VM's with no problem, but why would you go to Microsoft to run a Linux server given the other options? Unless they do something really amazing in the near-term, color me skeptical.
    • herbst 10y ago
      Exactly. Why would i settle for some properitary hypervisor actually ment for windows to host my linux machines when i also can use industrie standards.