Has charts on how it stacks against others(rackspace included) here.http://www6.nasuni.com/rs/nasuni/images/2013_Nasuni_CSP_Report.pdf[/QUOTE]
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Xbox One’s Azure Cloud Computing Solution Ranked #1, Beats Out Amazon S3
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Has charts on how it stacks against others(rackspace included) here.http://www6.nasuni.com/rs/nasuni/images/2013_Nasuni_CSP_Report.pdf[/QUOTE]
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I'm not brushing it aside. It is just that MS investment in to it isn't just for xbox. It is for all their services and software. Will Azure be there day one doing stuff for xbox, sure, but the stuff MS is claiming for it is more for the future.
Really cool. Can't wait to stream Xbox 360 games on Xbox One through the Azure Cloud service. Hopefully 
Menace makes a good point, the Azure infrastructure as it is now, and what is being looked at in that infograph is all of it overall, and the many things it does, but until the X1 launches there is no Xbox part of Azure. For the 360 the servers were kept separately from that network IIRC. As the relationship between Xbox and Azure grows with the X1 and into the future great things are sure to happen.
Azure is pretty slick. Their support is great too. When you sign up you get a call from your account rep asking if you need any help.
Amazon never called me!
Amazon never called me!
Being called cause you made an account is a negative, Yes. For me any way. If I have an issue then I will call you. Simple.
That's why you'll never be in charge of anything
But seriously, are you anti-social or something? MS's support is stellar all around, and a lot of people aren't even aware of it. Of course you actually have to purchase their products to get it, but it's all part of their value proposition. If there is an issue with an MS product at your workplace they'll have experts VPN in or even show up if needed. They also give away free training and all kinds of stuff people aren't aware of.
He might have called me because I signed up under an account linked to a Fortune 50 though, although I had to inform him I was just a small fry doing some initial testing for my own uses he was cool about it and said it didn't matter and that I could call him any time. No customer too small sort of shtick.
I appreciated it. If I do use it for anything real I might need that support.
Hmm well ok, Many might think otherwise though. Post sale customer service usually is a good thing
Well if you are legitimately using the account.. then you are a business or are representing a business. Being given a personal contact number and name is far better than some generic phone number or email address to call.
They could give you that info via email or somewhere hidden in your account details, but the personal call is the best way to actually ensure you are AWARE of the level of support. A lot of people ignore on screen prompts and emails.
That's why you'll never be in charge of anything
But seriously, are you anti-social or something? MS's support is stellar all around, and a lot of people aren't even aware of it. Of course you actually have to purchase their products to get it, but it's all part of their value proposition. If there is an issue with an MS product at your workplace they'll have experts VPN in or even show up if needed. They also give away free training and all kinds of stuff people aren't aware of.
He might have called me because I signed up under an account linked to a Fortune 50 though, although I had to inform him I was just a small fry doing some initial testing for my own uses he was cool about it and said it didn't matter and that I could call him any time. No customer too small sort of shtick.
I appreciated it. If I do use it for anything real I might need that support.
Anti - social no ( although I am). Seriously, why the fook would anybody want customer support randomly ringing them for no real reason what so ever ? Nah.
and LOL at MS customer service. Did you ever try to get a CC removed from live ? f***ing nightmare.
I totally agree that is better, but an email will suffice with the info. For businesses I guess it makes a little more sense.
It's a business product.. not a consumer product. You are signing up to potentially be giving MS hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month.
Same to this.. Live support does suck balls.. has nothing to do with their business support.
This is the xbox forum. Not an International business management forum
Well this only relates to Xbox in the "business" sense, so neener neener!
But seriously, I brought up their support because it's indicative of what developers will get, which in turn is hopefully indicative of how well supported it will be for games.
If MS is bending over backwards to call people like me to see if I need anything, imagine the level of support a developer wanting to do something cool with Azure will get.
We shall see. As long as it isn't a real hassle to incorporate and has real advantages then it should see plenty of support.
Guys, I've been very vocal about how great I think the cloud stuff is going to be. However, this graph and the ranking mean pretty much next to nothing when it comes to gaming. This is specifically measuring ONE TYPE of cloud service: File storage. Specifically, comparing Amazon S3 (one part of their AWS offering) to Azure cloud storage. Azure does surprisingly well. But this has nothing to do with the general compute that the Azure cloud will offer gaming. This is JUST about file storage. Not about general computing, which would probably rank Azure against Amazon EC2 (elastic cloud compute). Believe me, I live and breath these services on a daily basis. It's why I'm so excited about the possibilities of the Azure cloud gaming. And exactly why I find people posting this link to be so ridiculous, because it has nothing to do with those possibilities. (edit: I find the _posting_ ridiculous, not the people; this isn't personal).
Nothing to see here. Boasting about this is literally like boasting about the mean time to failure on the hard drive of your gaming PC. As in, probably important in some vague sense, but a ridiculous thing to boast.
Nothing to see here. Boasting about this is literally like boasting about the mean time to failure on the hard drive of your gaming PC. As in, probably important in some vague sense, but a ridiculous thing to boast.
Old Guy, go get cho damn floss and let us youngins' have our moment mate. I'm so tired of you comin up in da piece and ruining our irrational moment of fun with rational thinkin'! Pissin' all over our Cheerios and s***!
....AND I LIKE CHEERIOS DAMNIT!! WIT MILK AND BANANAS, AND OATS AND HONEY AND s***!
But aren't we useing Azure to download games from also? This shows a good sign that MS can handle the traffic it will get on xbox live.
Agreed. I remember a year back I was looking at some random retail website and received a call from a representative asking if I was looking for something in particular. I mean really? I don't like employees in retail stores asking me if I need help as it is.
Actually, if Azure is set up anything like Amazon AWS, it really doesn't have an impact. For example, if I were setting up to do file downloads with Amazon, I'd store the files on S3, but for downloads, the CDN (content delivery network), in this case Cloudfront, is the determining factor in how fast I can download it. S3 is literally just the storage. What this test is monitoring is the Azure equivalent of that. To determine download speeds, you'd have to measure their CDN offering for performance. I'm sure it's fine, but again, it's nothing to do with the service being ranked in this report, and again, this report really means nothing to gamers.