What is the Windows Azure platform appliance ?
On Monday, July 12th, I was at our Nashville office presenting to an internal Cloud training initiative, and this announcement comes out between two of my talks. This is really interesting play that I didn’t see coming. Take a look and see what you think.
Windows Azure™ platform appliance is a turnkey cloud platform that customers can deploy in their own datacenter, across hundreds to thousands of servers. The Windows Azure platform appliance consists of Windows Azure, SQL Azure and a Microsoft-specified configuration of network, storage and server hardware. This hardware will be delivered by a variety of partners.
The appliance is designed for service providers, large enterprises and governments and provides a proven cloud platform that delivers breakthrough datacenter efficiency through innovative power, cooling and automation technologies.
Use Windows Azure Platform Appliance to:
- Offer scale-out applications, platform-as-a-service or software-as-a-service in your own datacenter.
- Deploy a proven cloud platform that can scale to tens of thousands of servers.
- Leverage the benefits of the Windows Azure platform in your own datacenter while maintaining physical control, data sovereignty and regulatory compliance…
Dell, eBay, Fujitsu, and HP intend to deploy the appliance in their datacenters to offer new cloud services.
Lots more details on the appliance home page.
Other interesting press releases / articles:
- Partners “All In” to Cloud Computing at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010
- New Microsoft Channel Chief Charts Course to Cloud Profitability for Partners
- Dell Expands Cloud Strategy and Services With Microsoft Windows Azure Platform Appliance
- Fujitsu and Microsoft Expand Partnership to Provide Global Cloud Computing
- HP and Microsoft to Partner on Windows Azure Built on HP Converged Infrastructure
- eBay and Microsoft Announce Cloud Computing Agreement