The video is not very recent, yet gives a good overview of Microsoft's ambitions and real plan being executed in the datacenter space ...
Quincy, WA is the home of Microsoft's new online services datacenter, consuming 72 acres of land. The Mayor of Quincy expresses his gratitude for the choice, and MS planners explain why they chose ...
... De wereldwijde infrastructuur van het internet staat volgens sommigen onder druk. Telecombedrijven leggen nieuwe backbone-verbindingen, inclusief onderzeese glasvezelkabels die de continenten verbinden. Google doet ook mee....
Source: Computable ICT-nieuws - Google werkt mee aan onderzeese internetkabel
EMC wil samen met SAP een keur aan nieuwe opslag- en applicatiediensten voor bedrijven in de markt zetten. Dit meldt nieuwsdienst Reuters. Doug Merritt, EVP & GM Suite Optimization bij SAP zegt dat beide bedrijven in gesprek zijn over het samenvoegen van EMC's virtualisatietechniek en SAP-software om een nieuwe hosted service te vormen.
Source: Channelworld - EMC en SAP samen in SaaS?
.. Rackspace subsidiary Mosso this week relaunched its hosting platform as a pay-as-you-grow cloud computing service. There have been noises recently about hosting provider Rackspace’s ability to compete with Amazon’s EC2 service and similar cloud offerings. Mosso is its answer to those critics.
Briefing me on the announcement last week, Rackspace’s senior VP of strategy Lew Moorman told me, “This is a very important strategy for Rackspace … This idea has really blossomed into something we feel is the future of hosting — we really think it’s going to bring something new to the market.”
More at Source: ZDnet.com
Rebranded as The Hosting Cloud, the Mosso offering brings cloud attributes to the commodity Web server hosting market. Web developers can select the server stack they want to deploy — including Linux and Windows (both on the same website if they want), plus higher-level components such as PHP, mySQL, Ruby on Rails, Microsoft SQL Server and IIS7 — and the Mosso system implements it on demand. Its slogan: “Code, load and go.” ...
Microsoft BizTalk 2006 whitepaper outling the role of BizTalk in Software + Services scenrio's ..
Software + Services in the Microsoft World: A Technology Overview for IT Decision MakersOne of the most important changes in the technology world today is the shift within enterprises from relying solely on local software to a world of software plus services (S+S). This overview describes S+S, focusing on what Microsoft is doing in this area. While not everyone uses the same terms, the entire industry has embraced the idea of S+S under various headings and while the move to S+S certainly affects consumers, this description focuses on S+S for business users. S+S isn’t a futuristic idea; it’s a reality today. Yet the full impact of this transition is still years away. Understanding what that impact will look like requires thinking about the effect on applications—packages as well as custom software—and on the platforms those applications depend on. This overview describes both.
Interessante beweging van een (tot nu toe) hardware leverancier als Dell
... Dell heeft het SaaS (Software as a Service) bedrijf Everdream overgenomen. Het bedrag van de overname is niet bekend gemaakt.
Everdream levert SaaS oplossingen voor remote-service management in de markt voor desktopbeheer. Greg Davis, vice president of commercial channels bij Dell zegt de oplossingen van Everdream via channel partners te gaan verkopen. .
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Source: Dell neemt SaaS leverancier Everdream over
Date Published: Fri, 16 Nov 2007
Funny how new term related to SaaS are comping up constantly. Forrester talks about Information as a Server (IaaS):
Forrester recently surveyed 1,017 decision-makers at North American and European enterprises on the adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and related technologies including information-as-a-service (IaaS). Compared to other SOA technologies like the enterprise service bus (ESB), IaaS shows stronger adoption, though not as great as business process management (BPM). Of those who see SOA as a priority or critical priority, 41% already use IaaS, and another 14% plan to pilot or adopt the technology within 12 months. Additionally, 39% of the 76 enterprise architects who responded to Forrester's October 2007 Global Enterprise Architecture Role Online Survey said they are working on a canonical information model as part of their SOA, ESB, or IaaS strategy. This result accords with Forrester's experience, which is that canonical modeling is becoming a critical element in implementing IaaS. Information architects should prepare accordingly.
Source: Canonical Information Modeling Is Key To Many Information-As-A-Service and SOA Strategies
Author: "Mike Gilpin"
Date Published: Thu, 15 Nov 2007
Project Oslo is an important step for Microsoft in the Software + Services strategy :
Company announces multiyear investment in “Oslo,” launches new SOA resources for IT professionals.
... Attendees gathered at the fifth annual Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference today, where the company shared its vision and road map to simplify the effort required to design, build, deploy and manage composite applications within and across organizations. Microsoft Corp. announced “Oslo,” the code name for the set of technical investments that help customers realize this vision.
This multiyear, multiproduct effort utilizes the company’s top engineering talent to build on the model-driven and service-enabled principles of Microsoft Dynamic IT (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jun07/06-04TechED07PR.mspx) and extend the benefits of service-oriented architecture (SOA) beyond the firewall. The “Oslo” technology innovations further Microsoft software-plus-services efforts by providing extensions to the application platform to help developers bridge between on-premise and off-premise projects. As part of a technical road map, Microsoft made available new tools and guidance to help organizations take advantage of “real-world SOA” today, including new SOA resources from Microsoft and a host of industry partners.
“Many customers are challenged to realize the promise of SOA given today’s complexities,” said Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft Business Division. “The combination of our current software-plus-services approach and the new wave of ‘Oslo’ technologies will enable IT to deliver high-impact business solutions.”
Today, applications cannot easily span the boundaries between technologies, between business and IT, and between an organization, its suppliers and its customers. Microsoft’s continued investments in SOA and business-process management (BPM) technologies will help customers better connect across these boundaries using a service-oriented and model-driven approach. As part of “Oslo,” Microsoft will work to deliver a unified platform integrating services and modeling, moving from a world where models describe the application to a world where models are the application.
“It’s time to help developers and IT professionals extend the capabilities of SOA to address the new ‘blended’ world of software plus services and cross-boundary collaboration,” said Robert Wahbe, corporate vice president of the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft. “‘Oslo’ will enable a new class of applications that are connected and streamlined — from design through deployment — reducing complexity, aligning the enterprise and Internet, and simplifying interoperability and management.”
At the conference today, Microsoft also demonstrated an upcoming community technology preview of Microsoft BizTalk Services (http://labs.biztalk.net/default.aspx), featuring additional support for interoperability, Web 2.0 services, identity standards and workflow in the cloud. ...
Source: Microsoft Unveils Vision and Road Map to Simplify SOA, Bridge Software Plus Services, and Take Composite Applications Mainstream
Date Published: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:30:00 GMT
The power for SaaS needs to come from somewhere ...
... Recently, I took a seat with 11,000 or so attendees in the huge Moscone Center auditorium. I was there for VMworld 2007. As hard rock throbbed and steam rose from the main stage, I sensed tectonic plates shifting.
Is there a Data Center OS in your future? VMware’s Diane Green sees the Data Center OS coming. I was a bit stunned by that statement because earlier in her presentation she’d emphatically denied that VMware was an operating system. OK, I’ll buy the “no OS here” argument for now, but one has to admit that VMware is much more than a hypervisor. And if VMware sees Data Center OS on its road map to the future, then OS is what VMware will surely become. Just as surely though, it will be an OS unlike any we’ve seen before. ...
The Data Center Is The Computer
John Webster
Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:47:16 GMT
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