So, by now you've probably heard of the
Windows Azure news coming out of PDC; it's rather hard to avoid the media blitz.
It looks useful. Being able to easily deploy and scale services would be a big help, frankly -- if I could ever convince the Kool-aid drinking anti-PC Penguinistas that control our network to agree to such a system. Snowball's chance.
But I've a much more pressing issue to blog about than that. All I can think of since I heard the name is "Why???!?!? Who came up with such an aztacular name?"
UPDATE: Ok, now I'm confused. As I get deeper into Azure, it appears to only be available as a remote service from Microsoft. Is that correct? Or can enterprises purchase Azure and set up their own clouds? Further updates as I learn more.