Jul 23, 2008
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By Richard Martin InformationWeek Wed Jul 23, 12:00 PM ET Attempting to respond to cloud computing initiatives from Google and Amazon, Microsoft is apparently in the process of preparing a cloud-based platform for Windows that is codenamed "Red Dog." Though reports of the project have been circulating in the blogosphere for months, Microsoft has not publicly described the service. Microsoft did not respond to repeated requests for comments for this story. Providing developers with flexible, pay-as-you-go storage and hosting resources on Microsoft infrastructure, Red Dog can be seen as Microsoft's counterpart Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing service, known as EC2, and to the Google App Engine, according to Reuven Cohen, founder and chief technologist for Toronto-based Enomaly, which offers its own open-source cloud platform....
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