I am not understanding much from the below Post, But i always love to know how the things were evolved from the past, Hence i thought to share this.
This was a copy of the Japanese blog..
To understand the Azure from history
Cloud computing is also among the fierce technology evolution IT, especially changes in significant areas. Azure is no exception. Information will be outdated from buckwheat wrote.Therefore, in this entry to an overview of the Azure, and a twist, I will try to convey the concept of follow its history and evolution process. When you understand the service specifications and their implementation, it might be useful history and background. As obsolete not knowledge, we hope as a reference.
The world ask the dawn of the first phase ideal (2008-2012)
Azure was held in 2008 Developers Conference, were presented at the “PDC 2008”. Microsoft’s chief software architect at the time, made the foundation of the built one of the era software “Lotus Notes”, is Mr. Ray Ozzie. Received the baton of chief architect from Bill Gates, the founder in 2006, through the preparation period, Azure has been presented at the timing that finally.
The first time to use Mr. Google’s Eric Schmidt is the phrase “cloud computing” at the time, Salesforce.com as SaaS is the time that Amazon Web Services EC2 have emerged as IaaS. “I IaaS has a high degree of freedom, more easily want to.” “I SaaS is good at ease, a little more freely want to make an app,” it is also the time was born potential demand that “Between SaaS and IaaS” called.
Azure was born the demand received, as PaaS with a focus on applications. An application that was developed in the highly productive Visual Studio, can be deployed without being aware of the infrastructure, management is leave it to service. It is, of Mr. Ray Ozzie is a visionary, was the answer to cloud computing.
Infrastructure is concealed, it can focus on application development. And, high degree of freedom. It had the aim of such a world.
Azure is the word that represents blue, the sky blue. A number of diverse cloud, it is said that cloud the image of a figure in the sky. End-user of the system, of course, want to make the world to prosperity on the Azure with software partners, had it also put that.
Phase 2 customers, period of change with an emphasis on dialogue with the market (2012 to 2015)
Pursuing the ideal, but it was the first phase there was an impact in the vision surface, did not lead to up to move a large market. Factors There are several. Among them “I have not yet become accustomed to the cloud, disappearing suddenly infrastructure anxiety”, “need to change the make of the existing application”, but three of “open-source rise”, will noteworthy.
Plainly speaking What a place called “the vision of the good or bad aside, though not yet accustomed to the thing called cloud, unsure what to do to use the PaaS closed to the Windows / Microsoft ecosystem.” It might have a little too early.
Therefore, the ideal is aside the time being, more was snuggled up to user needs, it is the second phase. Major changes are two, that the user has to be able to directly control the VM, it is Respect coexistence of open source software.
Existing application assets as the easy migration, also, so that the range of control expands, a VM that has been concealed far has opened to the user. In addition, also supports Linux VM as well as Windows, the development of third-party and open source, was also strengthened cooperation with the management tool. And, most iconic event is, from the “Windows” Azure, is the name change to the “Microsoft” Azure.
Now the number of Linux VM has more than 30% of the entire Azure. Is supported by the developers, such as Github and Jenkins “is not a Microsoft born” cooperation with tools, it became commonplace.
We have continued to invest believe Steve Ballmer is the previous CEO. Current CEO, run force of Sathya-nadela. Two of the top management, we support this dramatic change.
Third phase expansion phase and its first (2016 ~)
In the second phase with an emphasis on user needs, to enlarge Azure is of scale. Japan, of course, went to expand the data center to the world. But on the other hand, also born problems to be solved.
Azure has been designed as a PaaS. Then meet user needs, and then open the infrastructure partially. Because I mean to publish a range that has been designed with the intention of hiding originally, there was a little unreasonable in its architecture.
So towards the further expansion of the future, it is moving gradually to the new architecture of the foundation. This new architecture, management model is the Azure Resource Manager model. For short it is called the ARM. The resources of the PaaS and IaaS, control in a consistent model and API, you can manage.
The current (2016/11), and a new portal that takes advantage of this ARM, classic portal that was the old model (ASM) to the base may not be mixed. You may have the inconvenience.Many of the services will have completed the transition to ARM and the new portal, but until the full transition, I hope a little longer for your time.
Well, Azure is that ready for the future by the transition to the ARM, but as a Let’s further expand the possibilities of cloud computing in the future. Such as machine learning and cognitive services, a new use of IT Act was not until this is, it is a typical example.
It also recommended the expansion of Compute Platform to support the modernization of the application. Such as attention collected are container and server-less / Function as a Service, high productivity, a foundation that is appropriate to move the strong application to change, we will propose with development tools such as Visual Studio, Microsoft’s strengths .
That is a re-challenge of PaaS. Opportunity to realize a world that was envisioned in the first stage is, around one lap, we arrived a little to change the shape. The difference between the first phase, and that the cloud computing is becoming a deeper understanding of the penetrate the user, is that Microsoft is no longer care about in-house technology “only”. User, listen to the feedback of the open source community, good things will incorporate more and more. It will also participate in the development of the community.
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