[AusNOG] Azure?

[Joseph Goldman]

I was minutes away from posting this - got a Facebook message from 
friend at said company this morning, they are pretty excited but again 
mentioned no time frame. Will hassle him for more info in coming times :)

On 21/05/13 13:58, Damian Guppy wrote:
> This was a large about face.
>
> Microsoft has just annouced that they are opening up an Azure Region 
> in australia. No details on time frame, but they said they will open 
> datacenters in both NSW and Vic.
>
> I'm guessing the pressure from AWS and co opening up lately started to 
> take its toll on microsoft. I just hope they don't do something silly 
> like make it an "exclusive" partnership with telstra like Office365.
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/au/microsoft-to-launch-australian-azure-hosting-region-7000015640/
>
> --Damian
>
>
> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Joseph Goldman <joe at apcs.com.au 
> <mailto:joe at apcs.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     A friend who works for probably one of the biggest Azure partners
>     in Australia suggests that there are no plans for an Australian
>     outfit at this time. I'd imagine they'd be apprised to this
>     information as they are a big customer and would be keen to move
>     into Australian based instances immediately if they were available!
>
>
>     On 3/05/13 8:20 AM, Ryan Finnesey wrote:
>
>         Now that Amazon has AWS locally any talk of Microsoft doing
>         the same?
>
>         Sent from my iPad mini
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