Microsoft has announced something remarkable. A cloud OS called Azure with the ability to run your enterprise server software. This could very well be the next big thing for the enterprise. When you think about it, why do we build our own servers and instant fail-over solutions housed in air conditioned server rooms when Microsoft could do it for us and give us access to our own virtual servers?
It certainly makes a lot of sense to me, and shows Microsoft's incredible strength in the Enterprise. I think Microsoft have been concentrating so much on the consumer side of the market, that they have forgotten about what should be their key focus, the enterprise.
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I see one of the drawbacks of cloud computing as being the reliability (and viability) of the supporting network). In the UK the infrastructure is not IMHO adequate to support large scale use of the cloud model. At this stage I would not feel comfortable trusting large amounts of mission critical data and applications to a cloud.
I've worked with Unix based applications that were hosted on servers and when problems occurred everybody got a slice of the pain.
It's a route to litigation (expensive).
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