Cloud Computing Richer by Microsoft Azure

Cloud Computing Richer by Microsoft Azure

• 24 February 2010
• by: Sumit Pradhan
• in: Technology
• Tags: Azure SDK, Cloud computing, Microsoft Visual Studio, MSP, PAAS, SAAS, SQLAzure, Windows Azure, Windows Azure Blob, Windows Azure Platform, Windows Azure Queue, Windows Azure Tools
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Did you hear of Windows Azure? If not maybe you don’ deserve to be on this planet. And quite probable that you are unknown to the Cloud computing. Cloud computing is the easiest way to avoid capital expenditure where you don’t own physical infrastructure and pay only rentals for service usage to third party. Some of the popular categories of cloud applications are SAAS (Software as a Service), PAAS (Platform as a Service), MSP (Managed Service Providers), Internet Integration.

Microsoft recently jumped into this futuristic domain of Cloud service by launching its Windows Azure platform. Windows Azure would function as the hub of the cloud services tactic of Microsoft. It extends a flexible environment for developers to create cloud services and applications. With Windows Azure, you can shorten your time to market and adapt as demand for your service grows.

Touted as the operating system of Cloud services, Azure would unfold as “development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform.” As an open platform, Azure supports non-Microsoft and Microsoft languages. So developers can create applications using Microsoft Visual Studio as well as PHP, XML, REST, SOAP.