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The Cost of Cloud – Part 2: Applications in the Cloud

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

As part 2 of my Cost of Cloud Follow-up (click here to read part 1), I wanted to focus on applications in the cloud and what you need to see, report on and predict future cloud costs.

 

Example #2 – Applications in the Cloud:

  • See Cloud Cost: IT needs to see a clear monthly workload cost of their entire Amazon AWS deployment (by server, application or service) before they get the bill. For those companies that have deployed in AWS, the anxiousness and pain associated with the monthly AWS bill can be quite frustrating.
  • Predict Cloud Cost: Reports are needed that can estimate or predict the cost of running an application or service in AWS before it’s deployed. Predicting cloud cost based on individual workloads, applications or services is essential.
  • Identify Cloud Ready Applications: Reporting that can show which workloads are prime candidates for cloud deployment would be extremely helpful to IT departments wrestling with how to use cloud most effectively.

    If you have any questions about how you accomplish any of the above, let me know by posting a comment.

    Alex.

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    Quick update: We have just launched uptimeCloud (beta) – the simple way to manage cost and capacity in the cloud. This new SaaS product will provide real-time, dynamic cloud cost monitoring, cloud cost forecasting, and cloud capacity management. for more, visit www.uptimecloud.com

     

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    The Cost of Cloud – Part 1: Cloud Cost Analysis

    Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

    Clost of Cloud, Cloud CostAs a follow-up to my cost of cloud computing post that had a large response, I decided to do a follow-up cloud cost analysis. This is part 1 of a 3 part series that will be posted over the next few weeks.

    The ultimate goal of deploying application or dynamic infrastructure to the cloud is the truly agile and cost-competitive nature of running and managing applications and infrastructure. However, cost can increase exponentially without proper cloud monitoring and cloud cost modeling. It has become crucial for IT to tie cloud success to cost analysis, in addition to overall system performance. This article will provide some common pitfalls and pains around current gaps in cloud costing and deployment, as well as a key set of questions to help IT make smart cloud decisions.

    Up to now, the success of applications in cloud, virtual and physical environments have been viewed in only two dimensions – availability and performance. However, perhaps the most important dimension is cost, and it’s cost that will dramatically influence what, when and where IT organizations deploy to the cloud. Presently a major gap is in tooling, where no cloud monitoring tools can help IT and LOBs monitor their cloud costs, predict workload/application cost, notify when costs are escalating, as well as provide standard cloud performance and availability monitoring. However, we do see this tooling issue changing in the near future.

    To date, companies have been oblivious to the workload cost of an application running in the cloud, apart from unclear monthly billing. We are entering a new era where performance and availability will be baseline requirements, but workload cost efficiency will be the new key to success. This will be the age of ‘economic compute’ and will be defined by how and where companies can run workloads at the best cost (assuming performance and availability remain constant). It won’t matter if it’s internally run on physical or virtual servers, or in the cloud, as the economics will drive this decision. However, the lynch pin to this costing decision model is missing…

    To responsibly manage IT budgets, companies need visibility to the cost and performance data of workloads, applications and dynamic infrastructure services. However, the industry is missing a complete toolset or product suite that can help IT easily see and predict the cost of cloud deployment. Applications and services can be deployed on cloud infrastructure (assuming it returns acceptable performance and availability), but it’s essential for IT to have clear visibility to what the workloads will cost comparatively, across different cloud vendors or even the cost of an internally run workload. How can IT make a cost-conscious decision without the basic cost data of an application, workload or service? Quite simply, it can’t. This is part one of a three part series where the idea of the economic cloud comes into play:

    Example #1 – Dynamic Infrastructure Services:

    • Ensure IT Doesn’t Overpay: A company may have provisioned a $500 per month system, but if its CPU is only consumed 10 percent of the time, then one is largely over paying. Now scale that scenario out to a company that is running many services, applications and servers in the cloud.
    • Companies with Many Separate Cloud Accounts: For IT managers trying to understand the cumulative costs of many developers or departments (LOBs) with cloud accounts, it can be almost impossible, with no clear means of reconciling usage (until it’s too late).
    • Manage Cost Across Geographically Dynamic Workloads: For more advanced scenarios, there are now a number of services that allow the creation of cloud instances in specific geographic regions, which enables a new generation of smartphone or mobile applications to exist.  There are millions of smartphone users in the world in non-North American geographies, such as Latin America – imagine if you could dynamically and geographically provision cloud resources that are compute heavy, or can service the requests of these remote smartphone clients, in a cost effective manner.  This reduces bandwidth requirements, increases the response time and can be done on cheaper, temporarily available compute resources. This kind of dynamism is incredibly powerful, yet monitoring the changing costs and performance of these cloud resources is going to be a difficult problem to solve.

    Stay tuned over the next few weeks for more examples of where the economic cloud comes into play and please, let me know your feedback/questions by posting a comment.

    Until next week…

    Alex

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    Quick update: We have just launched uptimeCloud (beta) – the simple way to manage cost and capacity in the cloud. This new SaaS product will provide real-time, dynamic cloud cost monitoring, cloud cost forecasting, and cloud capacity management. for more, visit www.uptimecloud.com

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    Green IT, Green Peace Strikes out at the Clouds

    Monday, April 5th, 2010

    Green Peace is no stranger to controversy, and in this case their recently published study on Cloud Computing and its Contribution to Climate Change has certainly caused a lot of discussion on the inter webs.

    The documents thesis is that we are building huge numbers of data centers and that we need to consider the impact of them, and also that we need to ensure we use renewable energy to power cloud based infrastructure.

    Again, as usual with Green Peace, in general it’s hard to disagree with the overall argument that the planet is important, it’s the way they choose to deliver their messages, and the way they target them that I find issue with.

    The document wants to attack the corporate “boogey man out to kill mother nature”, which is embodied by this quote: “But decisions about how the cloud will be built out are being made by business leaders primarily concerned with quarterly profit statements and earnings for shareholders.”

    The first point I’d like to make is, data centers and computing resources are cost centers from a business perspective, the more efficiently and the less resources we can use to deliver IT, the better the profit statements and earnings for shareholders will be. So to say that business and being green are mutually exclusive would be naive and as usual irks me.

    Secondly, Green Peace is totally missing the boat on what Cloud is. Cloud infrastructure would be the equivalent of public transit for the IT world. The fact that the stack can be scaled dynamically up and down and that many organizations/deptartments/stakeholders can share the same common infrastructure means far less wasteage in the form of dedicated hardware stacks for app silos that sit idle.

    Thirdly, the world of IT has driven up productivity, increased the worldwide standard of living, enabled Green Peace and many other organizations to disseminate their message without using paper products, and due to supply chain enhancement has increased the efficiency of delivering goods on demand to consumers (thus reducing waste).

    The paper totally misses the most important point, which is the fact that the number one waster of energy in IT is overcapacity or sprawl. Regardless of whether we use renewable sources or not to power our data centers, the fact of the matter is that IT is nessecary for the progress of society, what is un-necessary and needless is the provisioning of unneeded hardware or sprawl in improperly sized environments.

    Luckily there are monitoring solutions out there that can help with this key challenge. Whatever hardware/virtual/cloud, software or device stack you are using, make sure your monitoring platform allows you to determine whether you have too many “heaters in the data center”, “whether you can save on space”, “save on cooling” and all those other things Green Peace should love you for.

    P.S: If you are interested in Green Peace’s original study, click here.

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    Service overload, it’s happening again, this time with real consequences

    Friday, January 15th, 2010

    A while back I wrote a blog post on how an event in our popular culture, in this case it was the death of pop icon Michael Jackson, can cause unpredictable and unprecedented increases in traffic to online services.  In the case of Michael Jackson, TMZ and other sites were unable to handle the traffic of their readership trying to find out what had happened.  Well here in Canada, and I’m sure in other countries, the outpouring of support for those who have been hit in Haiti by the magnitude 7 earthquake is bringing the webservers of aid organizations to their knees.  With the surge in donations on their systems, the servers are periodically crashing.  Fortunately they are back online, but still unable to fully handle the workload imposed by those trying to give.  As this article points out, please keep trying to donate, as every dollar is needed in this dire time.

    In Canada, our government is matching every dollar contributed by Canadians to the relief effort.  Perhaps some of the cloud providers out there could donate their infrastructure and technical expertise to shoulder the donation collection burden from these organizations.

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    The Hitchhikers Guide to Cloud

    Thursday, January 7th, 2010

    I have just started using a service called Evernote to try and allow me to keep my notes and thoughts organized across all moments of inspiration, brainstorming and discussions with others whenever or wherever they occur.  So far it looks to be a promising solution.  Evernote is essentially providing me with cloud based storage with their particular access paradigm on top of it.  They have clients for all manner of OS and device as well as a web client.  I can access my Evernotes pervasively, wherever I am, and from whatever technology mechanism I have at hand.  This is one of the promises of the cloud and they fulfill this promise.

    This however, is not the ultimate promise of the cloud.  Ultimately I would like to be able to access my Evernotes and any other data or data management/manipulation services from the cloud as a single federated source of information and information processors/transformers.  Aside from the fact that there are no standard cloud information sharing protocols or data manipulation standards being used by all service providers, one of the key problems is the issue of federation and trust.  We’ve got passport, openID, and other technologies for a federated identity management solution, but the adoption of these technologies seems to be absent in many of today’s cloud offerings.  I use a few different cloud services now, and I have a different userid for all of them.  Even if they provided a means for me to link their services with one another, I would still have to manage a different identity across services.

    This same federated/aggregated service mashup challenge exists in the systems and server monitoring space.  With services moving to the cloud, multiple datacenters and 3rd party IT interfaces, you need a management and monitoring tool that can manage these components locally, but still be able to aggregate them into a global view with the flexibility to mash them together into higher order views that take the local information and, through a little magic, allow you to create global knowledge. 

    For Example, in up.time we have had our local monitoring instance – or what we call and LDC instance - and our global console – or EMS -  deployed in a large distributed enterprise to allow customers to extend basic monitoring from  a local monitoring tool into an enterprise service delivery knowledge platform. This provides you with critical information on your infrastructure, as well as knowledge about how those services are delivered across your business, with the explicit understanding of the business impact of those services.  When we have silos of valuable information, combining them together turns that information into actionable knowledge.

    The cloud is allowing us to create highly accessible and pervasive silos of very valuable information.  However, no matter how much information you have, it’s only valuable when we can convert that information into knowledge.  The potential for the cloud as a future knowledge platform, with the appropriate federation between services and between users of those services, is a great opportunity enabled by technology of the 21st century.  It has the potential to fundamentally change how we do things. 

    When speaking of knowledge, “Tacitness generally describes the extent to which knowledge is not codifiable (Galunic and Rodan, 1998). Tacit knowledge is personal, context specific, and therefore hard to formalize and communicate whereas explicit or codifable knowledge is transmittable in formal and systematic language (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995). Furthermore, intangibles like specific knowledge is expensive to transfer across because it cannot be easily aggregated meaningfully (Hayek, 1945).” – (Theory of the firm, Bach Seung, Bai – 2004)”

    We are filling the cloud with an unimaginable amount of tacit knowledge about anything and everything imaginable at an astronomical rate.  Combined with the AI technologies already available to mine, link and understand this data, we will be able to take these islands of knowledge from across the cloud and leverage it into a global knowledge platform with a tacit knowledge breadth that covers virtually everything.  We will be able to access this ‘Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy‘ from anywhere at any time, and it will always be up to date, with literally hundreds of millions of people updating this knowledge base in real time.

    (I realize there are several major challenges to the earthly H2G2 related to the information processing, but look at where we are today already, and in a very short period of time, it’s not an ‘if’ but a ‘when’)

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    2010 The year of cloud enabled convergence

    Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

    This is my thesis for today’s post: Geek toys are important for the future of digital convergence.

    2010 will be a year where we will obviously see unprecedented leaps in the availability of geek toys. As you are all aware, CES is happening and a few well timed launches are expected.  The general themes are extremely clear, thanks to a few “leaks” to the press this year.  Consumers are expecting a huge explosion of  devices in ‘tablet form’ as well as a dollop of mobile computing devices based on the Android mobile application ecosystem.  In essence we are all expecting 2010 to be full of ultra powerful, low power, beautifully designed tablet ‘like’ devices that look like they came off the latest set of a Star Trek episode. All of these juicy play things will be delivering waves of toy induced Geek euphoria among the masses for months to come. Will I be partaking in this geek fest? Absolutely, I’ll be one of the early adopters rocking a Nexus One, but that’s not really the point of my post.

    From a consumer standpoint, the entire internet and our entire digital lives are converging into devices like the Nexus One and the Apple tablet. That’s amazing when you consider that these devices are essentially a “piece of glass” with a wireless interface, a processor, some kind of solid state memory and a camera. This has been enabled by huge leaps in battery technology, low power computing, but more importantly the richness the “cloud” or essentially what the internet has to offer us on these new types of devices.

    The contrast is that, from an IT systems management perspective, the stack used to deliver business services, and ultimately, the content and services to these endpoints gets exponentially more complex and layered with every iteration in the design of the devices. The iterations are also getting faster, as the race to conquer this wild west arena heats among all the usual suspects.

    So, this is going to be great for consumers. We are going to see an explosion of different operating system variants, hardware paradigms, and new ways of consuming media. The question becomes, how many IT decision makers are already wondering, what will the impact of people wanting to rock an “ISlate” at work be? What will be the impact of having to provide more and more business services over the wire to mobile platforms like Android, Apple’s mobile tablet OS, Chrome on the Google Tablet (and the list will go on and on for 2010) be? What will be the business impact of having to monitor all the new infrastructure or SAAS based services needed to manage these devices from a corporate policy perspective? How about even the basics of trying to monitor the explosion of different kinds of endpoints themselves as they penetrate the enterprise? We all remember that the IPhone was initially a consumer only device, that later penetrated the enterprise with impunity. Most of my posts end with the same question – are you ready?

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    The Cloud is truly “the human network”

    Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

    Remember the old tagline “the human network” from one of our favourite telecom providers? This is a great tagline, because it reminds us, that all of that telecom equipment that we put in place is ultimately used to facilitate communication and drive innovation between real people. That brings me nicely to the topic of today’s post – the cloud is actually the true “human network”.

    Let’s ponder for a moment, that the cloud isn’t just changing the way we think about infrastructure, it’s changing the way we live. In essence, it’s cloud enabled applications that are making real what I think of as the “human network”.

    If we look narrowly at social media networks and their exponential growth for just a moment, we can start to see what I mean. A simple cloud based application like Twitter has forever changed the way we interact, whether it be novel new ways for geeks (read anyone) to fundraise and promote social causes (HoHoTO.ca),  whether it be the dissemination of real-time news, a way to flirt in real-time online, or to simply having a catalogue of our everyday thoughts – all of this brings our humanity to the surface through these connecting technologies.

    I have in the past stated that whole paradigm of the cloud is fraught with security issues because of the centralized nature of the data (I still believe this). However, if we examine the true potential of this new massive data set for the study of human interaction – we suddenly realize that we are at the cusp of a new era in understanding ourselves as social beings.

    How else do you explain developments like graph node based databases engines like the one from Neo4j to help us find and articulate relationships between massive numbers of individuals? How about tools like Xobni , that link our every day communication by email to social networking (facebook,twitter,linkedin) and generate workplace analytics?

    Wouldn’t it be cool to have the data to describe every friendship between every person on earth, how people do business and with whom, a giant database of what people are thinking about right now in real-time, who’s connected to who in the workplace, who’s who in the world of executive leadership? Wait a minute… we’re already there! [Facebook,Salesforce,Twitter,Linkedin, Hoovers]

    Wouldn’t it be cool to have all this data all the time, converged to your mobile device? (we are almost there, the cloud is bringing it, why do you think I love Google Android?).

    So if we were to say that there isn’t a lot of hype surrounding the cloud, I think we would be lying to ourselves. At the same time, we also need to recognize that the paradigm is real, and that it IS indeed a game changer, not just from a business perspective….. it’s actually about “the human network”.

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    2010 – The Year of Cloud Experimentation – Part 2 of 2

    Monday, December 7th, 2009

    This is Part 2 of The Year of Cloud Experimentation.  Please click here to read Part 1.

    How is the experimentation starting?

    The first steps involve application inventorying and application topology.  What business applications are in the inventory?  What can be migrated?  How are the applications interrelated and what is their topology?

    The initial cloud evaluation is going to be similar to the P2V consolidation analyses that have been occurring over the past few years. An added dimension to the Cloud assessment, besides having to understand workload profiles, is identifying proximity of data to the compute aspects of the applications.  Moving large amounts of data between a Cloud and a private network is not yet feasible.

    An additional element to testing the Cloud, unlike in-house virtualization, is vendor risk assessment.  If a vendor does indeed collapse, how quickly can workloads be migrated to a different vendor?  Are there any technological ‘gotchas’ like unsupported platforms? This will be a very important hurdle for Cloud to overcome.

    Furthermore, what types of Cloud services need to be evaluated?  Cloud servers, Cloud storage, dedicated hosted platforms?  Looking for a DR/HA environment to duplicate in-house infrastructure?  Or perhaps looking to leverage fractional compute during peak application load times?  How is network infrastructure integrated?  Are VPN services available?  How does storage fit into the deployment plans?

    Ultimately, cost modeling will be needed to determine the true cost saving.  A number of factors play into this equation: compute intensity and workload profile, network demand, storage throughput, and since services will now be remote, service latency plays a larger role in application delivery.

    When evaluating how to deploy applications into the Cloud, there are a number of operations issues to consider.  This includes packaging applications as images for quick deployment and scaling, as well as understanding the potential patch management needs.  A considerable amount of experimentation with lifecycle management tooling will be required, especially if applications are multi-tiered or distributed.  Experimentation with systems management tooling will be essential in order to monitor and manage physical, virtual, and Cloud (PVC) infrastructure from a single-pane-of-glass.  Will tooling integrate with automation solutions to assist in dynamic allocation of resources, or possibly avoid incidents through proactive changes in infrastructure?

    Evolution in automation will occur around “bundling” workflows.  Currently, there are very few sophisticated automation workflows related to Cloud technologies.  For example, imagine if VMware’s Orchestrator enabled Amazon EC2 or Rackspace drag-and-drop workflows around provisioning.  If this were the case, dynamic changes in demand would be possible in just a few clicks.

    An area of Cloud that we don’t see yet, but which will become more relevant as Cloud services mature, is the concept of cost brokering.  Ultimately, since the workloads in a private environment are known, which Cloud vendors can be used most cost-effectively for fractional compute bursts?  Quite conceivably, depending on location and time of day, rates will differ and you’ll be able to take advantage of the discounts and drive concrete cost-savings.

    Internally developed applications won’t be the first applications in the Cloud environment. However, it is important to evaluate which application development platforms are available in the Cloud to be future-ready.  This would include environments like Engine Yard, Azure, Google AppEngine, or SpringSource.

    Here is a list of the first five things that an IT manager should consider when evaluating the Cloud:

    1. Where on the IT Spectrum do we fit?
    2. What business applications do we have?  What are their topologies?
    3. What is the profile of the application workloads (can we take advantage of fractional compute)?
    4. Are the applications data or network heavy? Are they highly interdependent?
    5. What systems management tooling passes the P-V-C (physical, virtual, and Cloud) test. Is all this infrastructure inside and outside our walls manageable through a single-pane-of-glass dashboard?

    Overall, Cloud will change IT and business in a way similar to the Internet. Make no mistake, we are on the edge of a big and positive change. While there are many hurdles to overcome before the Cloud becomes a mainstream component of IT, these issues will be solved over the next few years.

    Remember when the internet first started getting major traction? Were you one of the pioneers in your company that saw its potential? Don’t forget that one of the biggest software companies in the world missed the internet boat and fell behind in catching the ‘internet wave.’ Well, the horn has sounded. Cloud is the next big thing. What are you going to do with it?

    Alex

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    2010 – The Year of Cloud Experimentation – Part 1 of 2

    Monday, November 30th, 2009

    At uptime software, we’ve been quite bullish on Cloud’s potential but feel it still has some distance to cover before it lives up to the hype. In fact, I wrote a blog in January looking at a hypothetical company and the costs involved in moving an entire infrastructure into the Cloud (using Amazon EC2). The results were not impressive, Cloud computing was too expensive (in this example) to gain the critical mass it needs to catch on. It’s amazing how much had changed in the ten months since that blog, as we have learned more about how the Cloud can be best utilized. Recently, the media has driven the Cloud excitement and IT managers are now thinking about how the Cloud, in one form or another, can be used in their environments to drive performance and efficiencies.

    The real question is this; in what capacity will organizations adopt Cloud over the next few years? With that in mind, we see the coming year as one of exploration and experimentation. The first step is for companies to quantify what Cloud means to their business.  Is it as banal as remote storage used for DR purposes, or something as evolved as dynamic compute with secure private/public networking?

    Let’s take a look at the “IT Spectrum,” which is loosely aligned with IT maturity and size of organization.

    In this diagram, the left represents most small businesses who house their own servers and have a small number of IT staff.  As the small business matures, they may evaluate SaaS-type applications (like Salesforce.com) or push some servers out to an MSP.  Further maturing, or growing, businesses may have additional servers in remote hosted datacenters, like web servers or remote disaster recovery storage.  At the right-most point in the spectrum, businesses/enterprises have opted to completely outsource their IT and minimize the number of IT staff employed by the business.

    Understanding the spectrum’s components is important. They represent a “menu” of options that businesses can use to leverage virtualization and cloud technologies to reduce costs (either labor or infrastructure).  This “menu” is most likely how IT managers will choose to evaluate the relevance of Cloud to cost savings and enhanced service delivery.  For example, with VMware’s new VBlock offering and the ongoing relationship with Terremark, entire stacks of infrastructure can be pushed into off-premises locations and operated in a mission-critical environment. So, whether it’s just dipping a toe into the Cloud waters (like hosting a server in Amazon EC2 or the RackSpace Cloud to deliver a decoupled application) or leveraging the VBlock to move entire mission critical infrastructures, there are many options to consider. Keep in mind that issues such as backup management, lifecycle management, and systems management need to be addressed in all cases.

    How is the experimentation starting?

    [ more next week in Part 2 ]

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    Microsoft finally draws their line in the clouds

    Monday, November 23rd, 2009

    As many of you are likely aware, last week Ray Ozzie announced that Azure (Microsoft’s cloud service) would go into full production on January 1st, 2010. Azure is interesting because Microsoft wants to keep the paradigm of desktop OS’s as a key part of the architecture with “the cloud” as an adjunct in what they call the “three screens and a cloud” vision. This vision is important, because it makes the cloud real for consumers and makes it more understandable and accessible to the general populace. Project “Dallas” also re-affirms Microsoft’s commitment to cloud computing as a whole, Microsoft unveiled just enough details to make the project interesting – i.e.  data-as-a-service.

    For all the “evil empire” slag that Microsoft gets, people tend to forget, or ignore, what happens when Microsoft embraces a technology and tries to dominate that market – the technology just gets easier to adopt and becomes more real.

    This is an important milestone in the development of the entire “cloud story”. Let’s be clear – Microsoft, due to their size and market position, does not have the need to innovate or invent new paradigms. All they have to do, and what they are good at, is step into nascent markets that are at the edge of becoming mature enough to explode. This is generally a moment of truth for any incumbents, as Microsoft can and does take advantage of their massive resources in an all out war for dominance. Once they ‘put their toes in the water’, they slowly wage a war of attrition on the incumbents, and buy all the best players and minds, until eventually their technology is pervasive.  We have seen this strategy in effect to great success over the years. Remember the browser wars, Database (SQL?), ERP, CRM, Content Management (Sharepoint), Audio Devices (Zune), Console Gaming (XBox) and the list goes on.

    So what’s the moral of the story? When Microsoft wades into the game, it’s a very strong sign that it’s time to get with the program and adopt this emerging pardigm.

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