A heavy-weight new entrant has appeared across the computing firmament: At its annual Professional Developers’ Conference (PDC2008), in Los Angeles, last month, Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie, announced the company’s own offering in the growing list of products and services tapping into what is being called cloud computing.
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Well, I am not new to cloud computing. I have been using AWS (Amazon Web Services) for more than 8 months, and I am simply amazed by it. You don't have to maintain physical servers. The hassles of upgrading hardware, managing internet/network connections are nullified. 2 servers for databases, 2 servers for backend applications and 2 server for web applications. But how much load can you handle with this setup. How will you address the issue of adding more servers, which require office space?
There are more issues in maintaining physical servers, data centers, which server administrators can understand. If all these are solved with a simple ssh access and pay as you use, it makes life easier.
People have already started using cloud computing, and with Microsoft's entry into this domain, the power of cloud computing will spread more rapidly now.
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