Mind The Cloud

PDC was full of “Azure” A lof of changes have been announced. You can find full list here
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2010/10/28/you-spoke-we-listened-and-responded.aspx and http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/pdcannouncements/
Personally most interesting one is new VMRole and Remote Desktop funcionality . It looks like “Azure” is/will be more then platform for developers/new applications (PaaS) .Virtual Machine (VM) role runs an VHD of a Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine. This VHD is created on-premises a and then uploaded to Windows Azure , even more in 2011 Azure will alllow creating images in cloud directly, for me that is quite a change and shift/expand from a platform-as-a-service provider (PaaS) to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). I’d like to see where this will go ? and how customers will adopt that technology anyway I think interesting time is comming (has come) , so please mind the cloud .