Microsoft's First Azure Hosted Service Is Powered By Linux

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 19, 2015 @09:40AM from the linux-is-pretty-good-as-a-server dept.

jones_supa (887896) writes "Canonical, through John Zannos, VP Cloud Alliances, has proudly announced that the first ever Microsoft Azure hosted service will be powered by Ubuntu Linux. This piece of news comes from the Strata + Hadoop World Conference, which takes place this week in California. The fact of the matter is that the news came from Microsoft who announced the preview of Azure HDInsight (an Apache Hadoop-based hosted service) on Ubuntu clusters yesterday at the said event. This is definitely great news for Canonical, as their operating system is getting recognized for being extremely reliable when handling Big Data. Ubuntu is now the leading cloud and scale-out Linux-based operating system."

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Re:Wow by omnichad · 2015-02-19 09:47 · Score: 5, Informative

Misleading headline. They offer Windows or Linux. Ubuntu is what they chose for their Linux instances.
Re:So wrong by shutdown+-p+now · 2015-02-19 11:13 · Score: 3, Informative

Did you mean to write, "Azure has run Linux"?
That isn't quite true either. Azure ran Linux since it had VM IaaS, but it didn't have that "since inception", it appeared a little bit later.
Either way, this news is something different. Previously, if you wanted to run Linux on Azure, you had to run it in a VM, and Microsoft only managed the VM host. Here, this is a hosted service that runs on Linux, where Microsoft is actually managing those Linux VMs for you.