Microsoft's cloud buzzword of 2011: Hybrid
The week of March 21 kicks off in earnest the annual Microsoft annual cycle of tradeshows — and the commencement of the first of many coming mentions of a word I predict we’ll hear a lot in 2011: Hybrid.
I’m not talking about Microsoft employees’ Priuses (Prii?) here. Instead, I’m talking about Microsoft’s cloud-strategy push, which I’m predicting will be long on mentions of hybrid public/private clouds.
At next week’s Microsoft Management Summit 2011 in Las Vegas, Microsoft is expected to the wraps off its “Concero” product. Concero, if you need a refresher, is a new management tool in the System Center family that will allow customers to oversee both on-premises and cloud-based services.
