Posted on 07/13/2016 8:43:41 PM PDT by Utilizer
Microsoft has revealed its forthcoming Azure Stack won't run on the hardware of customers' choosing, an about-face on its earlier position that the hybrid cloud product would be vendor-agnostic.
The company's senior director of cloud platform marketing Mark Jewett today said Azure Stack would only be initially available with hardware from Microsoft partners Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Dell and Lenovo.
Jewett said Microsoft would "prioritise" Azure Stack delivery via "turnkey integrated systems" in the initial general availability release.
"We’ve been working with systems vendors on integrated systems for a while now and see this as the best approach to bring Azure innovation to customer data centres reliably and predictably," Jewett wrote.
"We are co-engineering these integrated systems with Dell, HPE, and Lenovo to start."
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I’m guessing it would take a bunch of work to make sure all the drivers for different machines are compliant with the Azure fabric.
So they will support a known set of machines to roll it out and “certify” more drivers later in the development cycle.
I choose not to connect a lot.
Ping...
Should we also ping the hardwarepinglist maintainer? I think this is more software than hardware, personally.
YMMV.
Unfortunately, this seems to be the wave of the future. Installed a Linux OS recently and I had to have an internet connection to install the other programs I was interested in. For some reason, there was no way to identify which of the Release Disc ISOs had the necessary program files and supporting libraries. I had to track down and add the sources to Synaptic so when I was finally able to determine which files were lacking it was able to go to the repos and download them as well.
Don’t ask about the “Chromebook” that I was persuaded to try out. Doesn’t see a wireless (or wired, I think) network connection and you don’t provide a google / gmail account to log in, and it just sits there.
Biggest waste of money I ever did suffer the indignity of.
Bloody sodding waste of time, it was!
Well that’s it, I QUIT!
That is why I prefer a LAMP stack
Seems like every time AVG wants to update the free AV software, we have to be on our toes to uncheck the damn "install Chrome browser" boxes.
I know this is partly how they can afford to provide free AV software, but I hate these stealth installs.
I just let it go, then delete it immediately before any thing else.
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