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Microsoft Corp. is taking another step into the world of Web-based computing with a new system it's calling Windows Azure.
Microsoft says it's joining Amazon.com Inc. and other rivals in selling information storage space and computing power "in the cloud," distributed across massive data centers worldwide. That will let companies build Web-based programs without having to manage their own data centers.
Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, described Azure to software developers at a conference Monday in Los Angeles. Ozzie said that managing Microsoft's own Web sites and Web-based programs has made the company adept at anticipating Web traffic spikes and knowing when to ramp up some computers and dial down others.
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It is just so... weird to me.
does this get abstracted away from the developer so they buy space and processing power and they just write their app and upload it to location given to you by MS or Amazon, and then it just runs distributed?
Also, is there a lower level API that lets me access data crunching power from a local machine?
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#1 - Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:04 PM EDT{"commentId":3721451,"authorDomain":"mightyblogger"}
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"We are proud to announce that we will now offer to host the entire Internet because we're so good at it."
No thanks. To you and all the others.
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