Want to be part of the Microsoft Cloud Team?
Things are heating up. Here’s the ad for a position on Microsoft’s team.
I especially like the claim:
The Cloud Infrastructure Services (CIS) team is responsible for creating the Microsoft Utility Computing Platform, also known by its early codename Red Dog (RD). This platform is one of the lowest levels of the services software/hardware stack and includes an efficient, virtualized computational substrate, a fully automated service management system and a comprehensive set of highly scalable storage services. The platform will enable services to scale to millions of machines distributed globally throughout Microsoft data centers. Further, it will provide the lowest operating costs per-node, and will lead the marketplace as the best platform for rapid development, deployment, and maintenance of internet services and applications. CIS is a young and hungry team that is on the path to delivering a V1 product to external customers in the coming year.
As far as “Red Dog” for a code name, that’s also interesting. Is this homage to Clifford the Big Red Dog? Or the poker game? Or the ghost town in California?
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With the title of the post, I thought for a moment Joyent partnered with Microsoft to provide cloud computing.
It sounds like microsoft’s cloud team will be building an truly virtualized platform complete with dynamic or programmatic addition of processing power.
Perhaps instead of trying to insult those guys you could actually deliver on a few of your promises for cloud computing?
Right now you’re a VPS host with expensive plans and an obscure operating system. Not to mention the questionable approach you take to backups. Without an API and instant addition and removal of capacity, you shouldn’t call yourself a cloud provider.
Sorry guys, your arrogance is really really beginning to rub me the wrong way.
I agree with everything John said, including his last statement about getting tired of what seems to be a complete sense of arrogance on Joyent’s part.
What we, customers, need is the follow:
* An API for Accelerators where I can auto-start/stop Accelerators and get billed solely for the time I use. (Which also then means we need a pay to upload our configured VM image)
* A drastically improved administrative interface. Face it guys, unless you are already a UNIX admin – you won’t the current web admin interface and how to use it.
* Reduced prices for the amount of RAM given. (The bandwidth you guys give is nice, but seriously – the vast majority of people only need a small fraction of what you give … to giving even more bandwidth does make me feel better for paying double what others charge for the same amount of RAM/CPU)
Since Amazon EC2 now have: static IPs, persistent local storage and geographic zoning – what differentiates Joyent Accelerators from Amazon EC2 … besides the huge price (unfavorable) difference?
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