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Nov 20 2008 2:32PM GMT

Overheard: Azure grew out of Red Dog - gotta love those code names

Posted by: Margaret Rouse

Microsoft, Azure, Red Dog

The goal of Azure is to provide developers who want to write applications that run partially and/or entirely in a remote datacenter with a platform and set of tools.

Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexed

Ok. So Azure isn’t all that new. It’s just Red Dog with a new name?

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