Azure Services Platform - "Cloud services platform" - Wikipedia on Cloud Computing: "According to a 2008 paper published by IEEE Internet Computing
"Cloud Computing is a paradigm in which information is permanently stored in servers on the Internet and cached temporarily on clients.."
Consists of
- Windows Azure (cloud operating system) - provides the backbone for the Azure Services platform. Will support Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms.
- Cloud applications such as Live Services, Microsoft .Net Services, Microsoft SQL Services, Microsoft SharePoint Services & Dynamics CRM
Services Advantages:
- Reduces need for start-up technology purchases
- Ease of maintenance
- Open platform
- Can use current skills for development of cloud-enabled applications.
- Access to reach to 400 million Live users
http://www.microsoft.com/azure
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