Go Cloud

2009 September 25
by Boon Kiat Tan

It has been a while Microsoft releasing its first cloud platform – Azure. For a small start up like us has been using Microsoft technologies to build our services for couple of years now to embrace a new platform, it always requires some additional efforts and time for the migration.

We think that the effort is justifiable to move to cloud, because we were struggling to build a scalable platform and we are a small start up with limited resources – the investment has to be worthwhile. Aside from scalability advantage, most of the cloud vendors like Amazon, Joyent, Microsoft offer pay-as-you-go charging model.

A recent interview with Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, he regards cloud computing as “fundamental shift in the computing paradigm.”

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