Private, Hybrid, and Public Clouds: What are they and how to build them. This group is for people interested in cloud infrastructure topics such as datacenters and virtualization.
Some interesintg commentary from Thomas Bittman at Gartner: "Virtualization, private cloud, cloud – that’s the natural evolution."
- David Ziembicki
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From the announcement here: http://blogs.msdn.com/windows... Windows Azure, SQL Azure and .NET Services will be commercially available at the Professional Developer Conference 2009 and we hope you will continue building on the Community Technology Preview (CTP) at no cost today. Upon commercial availability we will offer Windows Azure through a consumption-based pricing model, allowing partners and customers to pay only for the services that they consume.
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"Try to get work with an infrastructure provider rather than an internal company system," advises Terrosa's Terry. "Develop an expertise on a particular high-end technology environment, such as virtualization or storage area networking. Or get some experience managing a SaaS provider. Embrace the cloud, don't fight it," he says.
- David Ziembicki
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