Microsoft bet hard on cloud: Microsoft to own the cloud?

Microsoft’s cloud computing is making a headlines, it’s already took center stage. The Software Company has already unveiled to the web its own entry to the cloud computing, Live Mesh is an ambitious initiative, a platform and service combination, its designed to breakdown barriers between data on local devices and information. Live Mesh is a piece of web based software technology designed to connect devices and applications online. What‘s new about Microsoft’s cloud is it embrace open standards, a dream come true to third party developers. Live Mesh is actually a web platform. The company is leading a once in a lifetime disruptive cloud computing wave, it got a good vision of the cloud. The Company has pinned a lot of its hopes for future growth on this business. It’s already announced its own plans to develop a new breed of operating system for internet based applications named “Azure” is Microsoft’s latest salvo on the billion dollars cloud wars. It got greater and scalability that a traditional data centers, and guess what? It will support both Microsoft and non-Microsoft environments and languages. I’ll guess this is only a part of a much bigger Microsoft’s cloud strategies. The Company has just announced that it will spend $ 8 billion to catch up in cloud computing and to bolster its presence on the cloud. Microsoft was reportedly spending a huge amount of money and that the cost of building the physical infrastructure for cloud computing will be a major barrier limiting the players in this business, and the Redmond based Company is not alone. Giants like Amazon and Google got their presence on the cloud but only Google could threaten Microsoft’s cloud business, the Search Company got the formidable resources and deep pockets to build those services infrastructure that match those of Microsoft’s cloud, and perhaps Google is the only company in the world that could beat Microsoft. The Software Company has just started to put its big swath of its business into the cloud, its very own SQL Server join the cloud party, its could be a late comer but a promising entrant in the emerging database as a service market. Microsoft Exchange also joins the cloud party. Within the next few years, we could expect more to come from Microsoft and even Google. The cloud could be the next big thing and the next battleground for the web titans.

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