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AZURE: WHAT COLOR IS YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM
Anyone in the PC market needs to get up to speed on Azure. That thought got a push this week as Acumatica, a Bethesda, Md.-based marketer of online financial and CRM applications, said its SaaS app runs on Windows Azure. I don't remember any announcements from other SaaS vendors in this space about Azure, but we will see more.
Acumatica's press release cited Azure's scalability, availability, and efficiency as very important to its efforts in the cloud. Technically, Azure is a platform that Microsoft describes as a "group of cloud technologies, each providing a specific set of services to application developers." It supports applications, data and infrastructure in the clouds and provides Windows-based compute and storage services for cloud applications. But the biggest thing Azure got me thinking about is company obsolescence. The computing world was once briefly dominated by minicomputer vendors, Data General, Digital Equipment, Wang Laboratories and IBM. They're all gone, except for IBM's turning the AS/400 into the I series. In any market, established companies can be almost completely replaced by startups during a platform change. It could happen in ERP.
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