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Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure
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Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

by Mustafa Toroman
October 2018
Beginner to intermediate
390 pages
9h 9m
English
Packt Publishing
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A brief history of Azure (from ASM to ARM)

We already said that Microsoft announced their version of the public cloud in 2008 and public release was in 2010. At this time, the official name for Microsoft's public cloud platform was Windows Azure. The name was changed in April 2014 to Microsoft Azure. The reason for the change was never publicly announced but there were many guesses. One of the theories was that Microsoft needed to change its name due to embracing open source software. As Microsoft added a Linux virtual machine to their offering, the name convention became too confusing. A virtual machine running Linux on a Microsoft public cloud would initially be Windows Azure Linux virtual machine, and having Windows and Linux in same name ...

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