Alistair Croll is interviewing Amitabh Srivastava, Senior Vice President, Windows Azure, Microsoft. Amitabh is responsible for Azure, his background is core O/S. Once again, I’ve captured some, but not all of the conversation.
AC: Are you faced now with open cloud/closed cloud dilemma?
AS: Big advantage in cloud is centralized control. Cloud provider picks the hardware, don’t have to worry about accommodating old equipment and software. This control and homogeneity drives down the cost. However, still want to build a very general purpose platform. Microsoft views cloud as extension of enterprise. Developer can choose how to write the apps for the 3 screens – pc, phone, tv – in the environment that makes most sense. We are still 5 minutes into the first quarter of cloud.
