Microsoft To Offer Local Version of Azure Cloud Service (reuters.com)

Microsoft on Monday unveiled a new service that allows customers to use its cloud technology on their own servers, part of the company's efforts to refocus its product line to compete more effectively with rivals Amazon and Google. From a report: "One of the key differentiations we have with Azure versus our two biggest competitors in the cloud platform space is our ability to support true hybrid solutions," Judson Althoff, Microsoft's executive vice president of worldwide commercial business, told Reuters. Microsoft is hoping to carve a niche among customers who cannot or do not want to have to move all their computing operations to the massive shared data centers that are collectively known as the cloud. Azure Stack could serve companies in highly regulated industries or in parts of the world where using the cloud is not yet feasible, Althoff said.

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I can haz my own cloud

[Osgeld]

I shall keep it in a jar and call it betty

Local cloud

[Anonymous Coward]

Also known as a regular server.

Re:Local cloud

[Tablizer]

Also known as a regular server.

But it has synergized separation of cloud docker containers so you can de-synchronize when your docker containers need decontained hypervisors re-docked and revirtualized. And, you can blockchain your deep-learning for an ambient UX experience.

In other words, it's buzzwordified so they can charge more.

My local cloud:

[DogDude]

Right click folder.
Click "share".

Vuja De

[Tablizer]

1981: "It's a PC, it's like a mainframe on your desktop."

1995: "It's an Application Server, it's like a PC on a mainframe."

2011: "Cloud: it's like an Application Server on a mainframe."

2017: "Local Cloud: it's like a mainframe on your Application Server."

2025: "It's a Metatizer, it's like an X on a Y, where YOU define what an X and Y is. Good luck figuring it out; we can't. Oh, and thanks for the check!"