Microsoft Azure, Cloud in a Box

Microsoft to try again to deliver an Azure 'cloud in a box' appliance | ZDNet: "... According to sources, customers and partners will order the coming appliances directly from Microsoft and Microsoft will be providing them with direct support. I haven't heard anything about intended pricing, but these appliances will be aimed, at least for now, at partners and large business customers only, sources said. When Microsoft announced its original plans for Windows Azure Appliances in 2010, officials said that OEMs including HP, Dell and Fujitsu would have Windows Azure Appliances in production and available to customers by the end of 2010. Fujitsu ended up introducing an Azure Appliance product in August 2011; the other two OEM partners never seemed to do so at all (best I could tell)...." (read more at link above)

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