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It has been 4 months given that Microsoft took the official wraps off its cloud-computing initiative. But nonetheless comparatively little still is known about the Azure platform and options.The component of Azure which intrigued me the most was the cloud operating program, code-named “Red Puppy,” that's at its heart. Late final month, Microsoft allowed me access to a large number of with the principals behind Red Dog — every person from your notorious father of VMS and NT, David Cutler, to the handful of top-dog engineers who helped design and develop the diverse Red Puppy core components. More than the program of this week, I’m likely to be publishing a post each day about Red Dog.Beginning from scratchBefore the Red Canine working program or the larger Azure stack was even a gleam in everyone;s eye, Corporate Vice President Amitabh Srivastava had the opportunity to perform nearly something he needed. He could hand-pick a staff of the top and brightest to create a new Microsoft platform for your cloud.Srivastava, who admitted he is “rather anti-process,Office Pro Plus 2007,” assembled a handful of engineers he knew from diverse Windows and Research assignments at Microsoft. He knew he needed to keep the core group smaller and well-knit.“If you only have 20 people, you don;t need as significantly process. It;s not like trying to make sure 5,000 people are all on the same page.” (Only recently did the Red Puppy crew expand, with new services-specific hires from Ask, Yahoo and other non-Windows centric companies. The current headcount for your Red Canine group is about 150,Office 2010 Pro Plus Key, Srivastava said)His first intended recruit was Dave Cutler, the father of NT and VMS. Cutler “didn;t need to write another OS,” Srivastava acknowledged,Windows 7 Code, but his “weakness is that he loves coding” and solving hard problems. He convinced him to join the crew. Srivastava consulted with Todd Proebsting, a former Microsoft Researcher and director of the company;s Center for Software Excellence. He called a few other former colleagues: Storage expert Brad Calder; former Sun utility computing expert turned Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Yousef Khalidi; programming tool and OS specialist Hoi Vo; engineering whiz G.S. Rana; datacenter provisioning expert Hunter Hudson; and developer evangelist Manuvir Das.“The quality of the communication (between the staff) affected the agility and the quality,” said Rana, the General Manager of Engineering for Red Puppy. “Lots of us had worked together for a long time.”(For a Red Canine core-team “Who;s Who list,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional,” check out this slide show.)After an initial two-plus-month fact-finding mission where the core team met with various Microsoft services teams in Redmond and Silicon Valey, the Red Canine staff had some suggestions of what they did and didn;t want to complete.“We said, let;s not try to copy Google or Amazon,Office Standard 2010,” Srivastava recalled. “We said we;d run things fairly differently.”The staff decided to keep their approach and their mission a secret, even through the Microsoft management. CEO Steve Ballmer knew Srivastava and his core group were functioning on a little something for your cloud, but that was about all he knew.“Steve (Ballmer) asked me ‘why are you hiring all our very best people;” for the crew, Srivastava joked. But he didn;t share very much, beyond his overall vision statement, along with the sometimes loose-lipped CEO.[Letting the 'Red Dog' cat out with the bag] –>