threeone
06-14-2012, 06:01 PM
Microsoft is going to support Linux on its Azure cloud platform. Microsoft on June 7 announced changes to its Windows Azure cloud platform that opens it up to Linux, and introduces Azure Web Sites for the quick creation and low-cost deployment of Web applications.
The new services bring the ability to run Linux virtual machines in Azure as well as support for virtual machine persistence, which allows changes to the VM image to be maintained after reboots. These add a level of Infrastructure-as-a-Service that will enable Microsoft to better compete with the likes of Amazon EC2 for cloud share, according to Wade Wegner, former lead technical evangelist for Windows Azure at Microsoft, now CTO at systems integrator Aditi Technologies for the past three months. “Opening Azure up to run Linux in a different stack is a realization that people run these technologies, and [Microsoft] doesn’t want that to prevent them from running Azure,” he said.
More (http://www.forumswindows8.com/info/microsoft-going-support-linux-its-azure-cloud-platform-315.html)
The new services bring the ability to run Linux virtual machines in Azure as well as support for virtual machine persistence, which allows changes to the VM image to be maintained after reboots. These add a level of Infrastructure-as-a-Service that will enable Microsoft to better compete with the likes of Amazon EC2 for cloud share, according to Wade Wegner, former lead technical evangelist for Windows Azure at Microsoft, now CTO at systems integrator Aditi Technologies for the past three months. “Opening Azure up to run Linux in a different stack is a realization that people run these technologies, and [Microsoft] doesn’t want that to prevent them from running Azure,” he said.
More (http://www.forumswindows8.com/info/microsoft-going-support-linux-its-azure-cloud-platform-315.html)