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Elliot Curtis Presents His Ideas on Microsoft’s Cloud Vision
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September 24, 2010

During the Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit, Elliot Curtis, Director of North American partner hosting channel for the communications sector, delivered yet another session. He discussed Microsoft’s approach and perception level concerning the cloud in general. He stated that cloud has now been successful in capturing the imagination of the IT industry, which reflects in the way small and mid-sized companies are dealing with companies to which they outsource their IT services.

Curtis demonstrated that prices of hosting have been dropping significantly, and that zero price alternatives are available as well. Earlier on the same day, Tier1’s Antonio Piraino had illustrated his personal vision of a cloud landscape.

According to Curtis, Microsoft being a global player is focused on covering extensive ground, and will also work with service providers in the cloud hosting market. Since Microsoft is focused on a delivery inclusive of a service provider’s offerings, it’s understandable that Microsoft views cloud market to be big enough for everyone.

Curtis considers ‘Microsoft Cloud’ as being different from ‘Partner Cloud.’ ‘Partner Cloud’, as the name suggests, is maintained and updated is managed by a partner organization, but the cloud is built on Windows Server, SQL server, and a few other products. ‘Microsoft Cloud’, on the other hand, comprises of Windows Azure and SQL Azure that is directly delivered to customers, usually developers.

The Azure platform can also be used by the hosting service providers to deliver specific solutions to their customers. Curtis said that such hosting provider was able to get going with the Azure platform very quickly. Microsoft does control the operation and functioning of devices that are delivered to the service provider, but greater control rests with the customers who can change their behavior to suit their specific needs.............................................................,,,,,,,,hgfde.....................