Hybrid cloud takes center stage, pushed by Microsoft and ... Walmart??
Nick Chase - February 09, 2016
In the public cloud, acknowledged champion Amazon Web Services is followed up by Microsoft Azure. Now Redmond is entering the private cloud market with Azure Stack, which purports to be identical to Azure, but for the private cloud. The company is pushing this solution as a hybrid cloud play, intended to enable developers to use a single API for both public and private environments.
With the service running on (fairly hefty) Windows Server 2016 machines, Microsoft is clearly attempting to hold into the enterprise computing market, which has been slowly but surely moving to virtualization, and now cloud-based, solutions. The idea here is to provide a hybrid cloud opportunity that enables companies to use a single API to run both private and public cloud workloads.
Pricing has not yet been determined.
Interestingly, the news comes at just about the same time as the open-sourcing of Walmart's OneOps tool, which enables enterprises to seamlessly run workloads on both public and private clouds -- but includes OpenStack, AWS, and, yes, Azure. Walmart acquired OneOps in 2013, and has built both walmart.com and samsclub.com with it. OneOps is now available on GitHub under an Apache 2.0 license.
OneOps is an operations tool that enables 3000+ users to make more than 30,000 changes per month, including basic IaaS services and more advanced autoscaling and auto-repair operations.
With the service running on (fairly hefty) Windows Server 2016 machines, Microsoft is clearly attempting to hold into the enterprise computing market, which has been slowly but surely moving to virtualization, and now cloud-based, solutions. The idea here is to provide a hybrid cloud opportunity that enables companies to use a single API to run both private and public cloud workloads.
Pricing has not yet been determined.
Interestingly, the news comes at just about the same time as the open-sourcing of Walmart's OneOps tool, which enables enterprises to seamlessly run workloads on both public and private clouds -- but includes OpenStack, AWS, and, yes, Azure. Walmart acquired OneOps in 2013, and has built both walmart.com and samsclub.com with it. OneOps is now available on GitHub under an Apache 2.0 license.
OneOps is an operations tool that enables 3000+ users to make more than 30,000 changes per month, including basic IaaS services and more advanced autoscaling and auto-repair operations.
Resources
- Azure Stack offers hybrid cloud on your terms - CIO
- Before you deploy Azure Stack POC | Microsoft Azure
- How Microsoft plans to beat cloud rivals AWS & Google with Azure Stack - Computer Business Review
- In Azure Stack, Microsoft Sees the Foundation for Enterprise Clouds | MarkoInsights.com
- Microsoft offers users Azure Stack hybrid cloud preview | Cloud Pro
- Microsoft SDN stack to challenge Cisco, VMware
- Microsoft sets stage for an automated hybrid cloud future with Azure Stack Technical Preview
- Microsoft: Soon, you too can have your own Azure cloud | ZDNet
- Microsoft's Azure Stack To Come Out As A Technical Preview Later This Week - The Tech Portal
- Walmart Launches OneOps, An Open-Source Cloud And Application Lifecycle Management Platform | TechCrunch
- Walmart has made its application development cloud platform to open source | Computer Dealer News
- Walmart Open Sources Its OneOps Cloud Platform | NewsFactor Network
- Walmart’s OneOps to help developers write and launch apps faster | Maine News Online
