Yesterday MSFT announced their new cloud computing service, “Windows Azure.” I’m not going to get into detail here on it because it has clearly been beaten to death by much more talented writers, and I’m also a day

late to the party. However, given the recurring theme on this blog about cloud computing I feel the need to comment. I believe that the Microsoft cloud computing heralds the enterprise’s acceptance of the cloud - and that is big.
My prediction is that enterprises will dip their toes into the cloud by taking advantage of the cloud’s compute power, putting computationally intensive crunching into the cloud first. Likely this will be non-core or lower sensitive data in a non-mission critical process. As SLAs are better understood and security is, well more secure, other things like backup and redundancy will likely scoot towards the cloud. Eventually we’ll get full blown enterprise applications in the cloud.
Here is a good post on the MSFT cloud effort if you want to learn more.



