back to article Microsoft: Give us three MORE WEEKS, folks – our StorSimple Cloud is coming

Microsoft says data center admins will have to wait a mere three more weeks until they can buy hardware built for – and intimately linked with – its Azure public cloud. The software giant said on Wednesday that it had made a number of upgrades to its Azure cloud to help it compete with rivals Amazon and Google and make it …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    When they manage two straight years of demonstrable uninterrupted uptime, then I'll consider them enterprise ready.

    When they manage two straight years of stable pricing, then I'll eat your hat.

    1. John P

      I'll give you point one, although I would hasten to add that AWS wasn't a great deal better at this point in it's life. Their numbers of failures were less, but they tended to be a lot bigger.

      No cloud provider has stable pricing, If they had stable pricing, they'd be priced out of the market within 3 months as everyone else continue to drop their prices.

POST COMMENT House rules

Not a member of The Register? Create a new account here.

  • Enter your comment

  • Add an icon

Anonymous cowards cannot choose their icon

Other stories you might like