In an interview, Microsoft EVP Scott Guthrie says cloud is no longer a one-horse race. And the days of cloud players competing on price alone are going the way of the dodo bird.
Former Amazon VP Suresh Kumar comes in as Microsoft Azure poohbah reporting to Scott Guthrie.
Urs Hölzle and Scott Guthrie have the tough — but fascinating challenge — of mounting a challenge to Amazon Web Services.
Microsoft is adopting new philosophies as it develops a strategy to compete with Amazon and Google in the market for cloud computing.
Not a huge surprise, but Scott Guthrie gets the official nod as Cloud and Enterprise chief at Microsoft. Stephen Elop was named EVP of devices and Phil Spencer to head combined Xbox/Microsoft Studio group.
It’s that time of the year where Microsoft makes a set of announcements related to the Windows Azure platform. But with all the new players in the IaaS space, the company has some competition to contend with — especially from AWS.
Another week of high-profile outages may spook some prospective cloud users but Amazon Web Services strength shows the appeal of cloud. And Microsoft keeps adding Windows Azure options.
With the next release of Office and SharePoint, developers can build add-ons that run in Windows Azure (or Amazon, or other clouds.) A bigger question is when Office and SharePoint themselves will make the transition into Microsoft’s multi-billion-dollar cloud. Microsoft still isn’t saying.
Next week, legacy tech powers Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and Microsoft will vie for the spotlight as they set forth their cloud computing game plans at closely scheduled events. All three have prodigious resources and all three lag far behind cloud giant Amazon Web Services.
