It's got been 4 months because Microsoft took the official wraps off its cloud-computing initiative. But nonetheless comparatively small nevertheless is recognized in regards to the Azure platform and ideas.
The part of Azure which intrigued me probably the most was the cloud operating technique, code-named “Red Puppy,” that is at its heart. Late last month,
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Dave Cutler, the father with the VAX VMS and NT running methods,
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Nevertheless, the engineers on the Red Canine team with whom I spoke cited the attraction of getting to work with Cutler — who has long been at Microsoft considering that 1988 — as a single with the main reasons they joined the effort. Cutler was the first individual that Azure chief Amitabh Srivasta recruited for Red Dog, knowing Cutler’s interest and expertise in virtualization would be key to the team’s work. Once he had Cutler on board, other engineers wanted in, too, Srivastava said.
“The first method I ever worked on in college was VMS,” said Yousef Khalidi, the Microsoft Distinguished Engineer working on the Red Canine fabric controller. A chance to work using the guy who wrote that operating system was a huge opportunity, he said.
“Cutler can pick any project at this company he wants to work on,
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(To see a great deal more on Cutler and other core members with the Red Dog engineering team, check out this slide show.)
During the decades I’ve written about Microsoft, a single of the very number of execs I’ve requested repeatedly but have been unable to get was Cutler. Unfortunately Cutler wasn’t at Microsoft headquarters when I met with the rest of the team, but I nevertheless had a chance to ask him five questions via e-mail.
Here’s our exchange:
MJF: What finally convinced you that it was worth your time/effort to join the Azure OS/Red Canine team? Was there something about it that you seriously wanted to do/try/learn?
Cutler: One with the major premises of Red Dog (RD) is being able to share a single compute node across quite a few properties. This enables better utilization of compute resources and the flexibility to move capacity as properties are added,
Office 2010 Product Key, deleted, and will need even more or less compute power. This is turn drives down capital and operational expenses. The principle enabler for this type of sharing and the required security and isolation between properties is virtualization. At the time I was not a big proponent of virtualization considering that of the high overhead it extracted through the base hardware method. I spent a considerable amount of time studying Microsoft’s virtualization efforts and after about three months became convinced we could build an efficient hypervisor for RD if we predicated it on second generation virtualization hardware and ran a single OS that was modified to run in the hypervisor environment as efficiently as possible. I never had any doubt that cloud computing would become an important part of Microsoft’s product offering and getting over the virtualization hurdle convinced me I ought to join the team.
MJF: How was working on the Azure OS/Red Canine distinctive from/similar to working on NT? on VMS?
Cutler: RD is very similar towards the early days of NT and VMS. It is actually a smaller team of dedicated, energetic, smart people working toward a common goal with aspirations of producing a complete and very high quality competitive product. It is several in the sense that we are heading after a new business for which we have no installed base or extensive knowledge set and there are significant competitors in the marketplace.
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