Microsoft To Launch Pennies-Per-Hour Azure Cloud Service Monday

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Published: January 31, 2010Posted in: Business Intelligence, Clouds, Integration, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Opinions & Explanations, PaaSTags:
Microsoft To Launch Pennies-Per-Hour Azure Cloud Service Monday
Following a no-cost test period, Microsoft on Feb. 1 will begin charging customers for its pay-per-use Windows Azure cloud services.
Microsoft unveiled Azure at its PDC conference in Oct. 2008, and since then it has been preparing the on-demand computing service for commercial availability. For the past month, Microsoft let customers use Azure for free in order to get experience with the service and a sense of how usage will translate into cost. On Feb. 1, the meter starts running.
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Microsoft wants to makes it easier for customers to deploy and manage applications that span both corporate data centers and Azure in so-called hybrid clouds. A major area of emphasis going forward will be on “server-service cohesion,”

Following a no-cost test period, Microsoft on Feb. 1 will begin charging customers for its pay-per-use Windows Azure cloud services.

Microsoft unveiled Azure at its PDC conference in Oct. 2008, and since then it has been preparing the on-demand computing service for commercial availability. For the past month, Microsoft let customers use Azure for free in order to get experience with the service and a sense of how usage will translate into cost. On Feb. 1, the meter starts running.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/saas/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222600247

Microsoft wants to makes it easier for customers to deploy and manage applications that span both corporate data centers and Azure in so-called hybrid clouds. A major area of emphasis going forward will be on “server-service cohesion,”

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