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Microsoft PDC kicks off with Azure skies of cloud computing
LOS ANGELES -- Microsoft spent all of PDC’s first keynote this morning talking up cloud computing, and in particular Windows Azure, its soon-to-be cloud OS. With Azure, Microsoft is throwing itself into the Web computing rink, where such giants as Amazon, Salesforce.com and Facebook are already battling for dominance in what some are predicting will be the next big shift in computing.
Like Amazon EC2, Azure consists of a platform that allows developers to write code on their local computers and run it on virtualized servers that Microsoft hosts. In fact, Microsoft’s chief software architect Ray Ozzie gave a nod to his competition at the keynote, mentioning that Amazon EC2 -- a hosting platform similar to Windows Azure -- provided the nascent cloud computing industry some direction.
Azure will be available to PDC attendees as an early beta; Ozzie did not specify when it would be commercially available.
The Azure platform includes several hosted services that developers can use to write programs similar to the ASP.NET applications they’re already familiar with. At the core, Windows Azure -- the cloud OS itself -- will provide virtual machines that will host binaries that developers write in Visual Studio. A set of .NET Services will provide a framework for access control and communication across the Web, and SQL Services will provide hosted data services. You can read more about the Azure announcement at Microsoft PDC at SearchSOA.com.
Of course, it’s not yet clear how important cloud computing will be. To hear Ozzie this morning, you’d think it’s just a matter of time before it’s as important to enterprises as the client-server model; others think the cloud will mostly be for relatively simple, fun toys like Bluehoo, a Bluetooth-enabled social networking app for mobile devices that Microsoft featured this morning at the PDC keynote.
In the end, the importance of cloud computing will probably be somewhere between those extremes. Enterprises may use cloud computing, but probably not for business-critical applications. One of the biggest impacts may be in how cheaply startups will be able to roll Web applications out, as the Economist points out.
Tomorrow, Microsoft will talk about the client side. We expect some talk about the new Silverlight 2 release and other .NET-related news. But what are you interested in? When you daydream about the programs you’ll write five years down the line, do they run in browsers or clouds? Or just on plain old servers and clients?
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