Posts Tagged ‘Windows Azure’
What Satya Nadella means to Azure future
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 11, 2011
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With the recent changes in the leadership of one of Microsoft’s key business units – Server and Tools – from Bob Muglia to Satya Nadella one can’t help speculating what this means for the business unit and how it will affect Microsoft’s cloud strategy, specifically Windows Azure – Microsoft’s platform as a service. Here’s my uneducated [...]
Self-hosting vs Cloud-hosting costs
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: December 22, 2010
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Is there hard ROI to use a cloud IaaS instead of a server in your garage/basement/on-premise datacenter? I think there increasingly is and justifying self-hosting is getting increasingly tough. I would actually go as far as posit that you can now get a server in a public datacenter at price comparable to your electricity bill alone! If [...]
Azure Appliance – a Turn-Key Private Cloud?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: July 14, 2010
Maybe not just yet unless you are an extremely large hosting company or enterprise with big IT and research and development (R&D) budgets. To re-cap, this week at its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) Microsoft announced that together with their hardware partners they will start offering (some time later this year as a limited release for [...]
IT Management as a Service: Discussion and Demo
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: March 18, 2010
Microsoft’s TechNet EDGE posted a video with quite detailed discussion of Systems Management as a Service concept, example of such a service (Quest OnDemand), how it uses Windows Azure as the underlying technology, the security model behind it, and so on. Obviously a demo is in there as well. Check out the video here. Share [...]
Dmitry on Azure and Quest
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: March 9, 2010
Here’s a 3 minute video which Windows Azure team shot when they caught me in the hallway after one of the days at the Microsoft PDC conference last November. It is short but hopefully provides look into why we are using Azure and building our Quest OnDemand Systems-Management-as-a-Service offering. Share this post! Email Facebook Share [...]
Details on Quest OnDemand
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 8, 2010
Ben Riga posted a video recording with a fairly detailed discussion we had at Microsoft PDC about Quest OnDemand (Quest’s Systems Management as a Service offering): In that discussion we have covered quite a few topic which I hope you will find interesting: What is Systems Management as a Service and how it is different [...]
How to find me at TechEd Europe
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 9, 2009
Here’s when and where you can find me in Berlin this week: Microsoft Online Services booth (Unified Communications area) in the TLC area (3.2) I’ll be there tomorrow (Tuesday) during the evening reception – 6:15-8:00 pm. Obviously, I will be happy to answer any questions on Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, LiveMeeting, OCS Online and sign [...]
Attending TechEd Europe? Vote for Cloud sessions
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: September 29, 2009
There are two cloud-related sessions in the “community” section of Microsoft TechEd Europe 2009 and you need to vote for them here if you are attending the conference (and obviously if you want them in the agenda). Basically, both are on cloud computing: one for developers and the other for IT professionals: Going to the [...]
My cloud interview at TechEd
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 3, 2009
Technet Edge posted the interview David Tesar made with me while at TechEd last month. Check it out here. Dmitry Sotnikov of Quest Software, gives us his perspective on services in the cloud and answers some of the frequently asked questions in his sessions such as: – When is the right time to move to [...]
Active Directory, Exchange Online, and Azure applications
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: May 27, 2009
Recording from my TEC session on IT professional view on identity management and AD-integration for Exchange Online and Windows Azure has just got posted: Enjoy! You can find other session recordings from TEC (including keynote!) here. Also, if you are based in Europe – TEC Europe in coming to Berlin in September and early bird [...]
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