Notes From Planet Pablo
My notes on technology in my personal and professional life

Oct

8

Microsoft in the Amazon Cloud

Filed Under Cloud Computing

The TWPC IT management team met a few weeks back with Amazon’s Chief Evangelist for Web Services, Jeff Barr. He sketched out their strategy for growing the Amazon cloud business at a very high level. they see themselves as sticking as a pure infrastructure provider for some time, and will leave the delivery of actual application services to their partners / resellers. Because we are generally contracting for services higher in the stack there does not seem to be a lot of opportunity for us to do business directly with them, but it was interesting to see how they’re approaching the market and it just convinced me further that they have got the best grip on the concepts and opportunities. Then today I noticed a NYT posting on something he told us would be coming – Microsoft offerings in the EC2.

I think this is pretty significant turning point for SMB and Enterpise IT alike. If they execute well on this and others follow them into the marketplace there will be huge consolidation in the IT Infrastructure career field. This is potentially a real tipping point for office IT professionals, where most of what they do starts to roll up into a utility model. The big question is security and privacy concerns. Once the utility vendors overcome enterpise concerns in this area, the race will be on to move enterpise apps into the cloud.

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