Windows Azure in Lokad

If you are interested in Cloud Computing, Windows Azure and some practical applications, then this short movie by Microsoft might interest you. It had been featured at PDC’09 and is partially based on the use case around Lokad (company I’m working in):

If YouTube player does play properly, then there is a separate link or downloadable movie files.

There’s also the original Cloud Computing Case Study on Windows Azure in Lokad made by Microsoft after a few interviews.

Given all the latest changes in the technology, and the possible trends, that start showing up, we can say that the cloud computing is going to be extremely important in the mid-term future.

Here’s another curious trend in the picture. It seems that stock markets might eventually add yet another commodity to their list – cloud computing instances. Amazon had recently announced EC2 Spot Instances as an ability to obtain computing capacity at a price matching proposed bit. Once there is some cost-effective and efficient platform for redistributing cloud computing resources, all these datacenters with idle server rack might follow in. Forces of Economics and expense optimization might bring forth interesting development solutions afterwards.