Microsoft Azure Impress Ms Partners

A number of the Microsoft partners are impressed with the announcement of Microsoft Azure.

This is the boldest prediction I've heard yet, and it certainly sets a direction by Dave Sobel, CEO of Evolve Technologies, a Fairfax, Va.-based Microsoft Gold partner.

It's hard for us to imagine any of our applications that don't have a strong client, server and cloud story to tell across the PC, the mobile phone, and the browser by Stephen Elop of ChannelWeb.

Microsoft is really looking at a stack here -- this isn't just a token gesture of throwing a few things online. They're really looking to build a low-level environment and the ancillary services and then applications. It'll be interesting to see how many of the facilities and features in the enterprise products are really going to be available in the cloud in the short term by Andrew Brust, Chief of new technology at twentysix New York, a New York-based IT consultancy

There are real challenges with technical sales, marketing, support, billing, and hand-tailored customization that are all critical to winning SMB clients in this space. Azure should also make it easier to integrate and extend Microsoft applications with a more tightly woven Web-based framework by Adam Smith, director of marketing at Phase 2 International, a Honolulu, Hawaii-based solution provider

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