Comments on: vComeback Contest: Microsoft Cloud Power Billboard http://www.vcritical.com/2011/01/vcomeback-contest-microsoft-cloud-power-billboard/ Informed Virtualization Criticism Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:27:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Zack http://www.vcritical.com/2011/01/vcomeback-contest-microsoft-cloud-power-billboard/#comment-11467 Zack Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:50:58 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=3104#comment-11467 Bring on the cloud, not the hype(r-V)

]]> By: Jason Boche http://www.vcritical.com/2011/01/vcomeback-contest-microsoft-cloud-power-billboard/#comment-11443 Jason Boche Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:19:21 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=3104#comment-11443 My submission links to this MS article (For $50,000, I could pay someone to move my virtual machines for me) where MS bolsters the opinion that hot migration (& really it’s about whatever competitor technology MS does not yet have) isn’t needed by its customers:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2008/10/06/for-_2400_50_2c00_000_2c00_-i-could-pay-someone-to-move-my-virtual-machines-for-me.aspx

So I guess the moral here is that the cloud also requires (and should be trusted to) an intern who works 24x7x365.

]]> By: Eric Gray http://www.vcritical.com/2011/01/vcomeback-contest-microsoft-cloud-power-billboard/#comment-11442 Eric Gray Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:38:32 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=3104#comment-11442 Thanks everyone for participating. Winners have been selected, please see http://www.vcritical.com/2011/01/vcomeback-contest-winners-microsoft-cloud-power/

]]> By: Winners announced for the "Microsoft Cloud Power" vComeback Contest | VCritical http://www.vcritical.com/2011/01/vcomeback-contest-microsoft-cloud-power-billboard/#comment-11441 Winners announced for the "Microsoft Cloud Power" vComeback Contest | VCritical Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:34:58 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=3104#comment-11441 [...] week I launched the first vComeback Contest, where readers were asked to submit their wittiest responses to the intriguing Microsoft [...]

]]> By: Paul Kelly http://www.vcritical.com/2011/01/vcomeback-contest-microsoft-cloud-power-billboard/#comment-11440 Paul Kelly Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:08:15 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=3104#comment-11440 Hyper-V: Press any key to restart
or
VMware: Hand-crafted by people that care
or
Microsoft Cloud – Don’t let it rain on your parade
or
Microsoft Cloud – It will rain on your parade

]]> By: jbrison http://www.vcritical.com/2011/01/vcomeback-contest-microsoft-cloud-power-billboard/#comment-11439 jbrison Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:59 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=3104#comment-11439 “Do Clouds require an Active-X to start?”

]]> By: Simon http://www.vcritical.com/2011/01/vcomeback-contest-microsoft-cloud-power-billboard/#comment-11438 Simon Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:42:32 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=3104#comment-11438 “Our clouds, the earth they do not cost. Can others say the same?”

“Unlike others, we don’t have our head in the clouds, we build the clouds”

“Our virtualization makes the weather cloudy over Redmond”

]]> By: Vitaly Tsipris http://www.vcritical.com/2011/01/vcomeback-contest-microsoft-cloud-power-billboard/#comment-11437 Vitaly Tsipris Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:34:30 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=3104#comment-11437 “Marketing alone does not a cloud solution make”!

]]> By: Ernest http://www.vcritical.com/2011/01/vcomeback-contest-microsoft-cloud-power-billboard/#comment-11436 Ernest Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:24:02 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=3104#comment-11436 Microsoft has to add this to their add:

Coming soon!!!

]]> By: graalar http://www.vcritical.com/2011/01/vcomeback-contest-microsoft-cloud-power-billboard/#comment-11435 graalar Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:35:19 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=3104#comment-11435 “Azure!”
“Gesundheit.”
VMware. The cure for the common cloud.

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