I received an interesting email the other day. The link was to a Microsoft article announcing an upcoming release of a ‘Cloud Appliance’. I spoke about how great this would be for the world of computing in a blog post back in February 2009. I forwarded the article to the folks I work with in Server/Network and they lost their minds. A system fully capable of abstracting hardware and software!
As someone who works in a heavily regulated industry, and rightfully so in my opinion, this is the best thing to come along since virtualization. There is no one in my industry that doesn’t recognize the benefits of a cloud based architecture, but new regulations in Healthcare now dictate jail time for certain violations. I’m less willing to take advantage of the architectural benefits and cost savings if I know there is a real risk of visiting a federal institution of time outs. Long story short, I’m excited to see Microsoft enter this space.
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