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Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds: RAW

By : Marcel van den Berg
Book Image

Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds: RAW

By: Marcel van den Berg

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
Summary and a Look into the Near Future
Index

The road ahead


Challenging and exciting times are ahead. I am sure what we see developing today is only the beginning. Microsoft is releasing new Azure features about once every three weeks. This is an incredible pace. Massive amounts of resources are spent on making sure the cloud is the next phase in IT. The shift has already started. Sales of servers manufactured by established vendors like IBM and HP are going down. Applications are offered on the Internet as Software as a Service and consumed by using a browser. Microsoft releases new features in its cloud-based software first before releasing them for on-premises solutions. Traditional fat desktops are swapped for thin, lightweight clients with just enough software to connect to the Internet and offer a browser and lightweight office tools.

Oracle and Citrix were amongst the first major software vendors supporting Azure. SAP joined later in 2014. Many more will follow soon.

How will Microsoft Azure develop in the next few years? What...