1. Microsoft's Windows Azure

2. Microsoft's Windows Azure Platform is a cloud platform offering, that "provides a wide range of Internet services that can be consumed from both on-premises environments or the Internet ” What is Microsoft's Windows Azure…??

4. Windows Azure Benefits Bring your ideas to market faster and pay as you go Reduce costs of building and extending on-premises resources. Reduce the effort and costs of IT management. Respond quickly to changes in your business and customer needs. Scale your IT resources up and down based on your needs. Focus less energy on managing operational resources and constraints. Remove the need to manage hardware.

5. Windows Azure is a service Customers use it to run applications and store data on Internet-accessible machines owned by Microsoft.

7. The compute Service – The Windows Azure Compute service can run many different kinds of applications. A primary goal of this platform, however, is to support applications that have a very large number of simultaneous users.

9. The Storage service – Applications work with data in many different ways. Accordingly, the Windows Azure Storage service provides several options.

11. The Fabric – All Windows Azure applications and all of the data in Windows Azure Storage live in some Microsoft data center. Within that data center, the set of machines dedicated to Windows Azure is organized into a fabric.

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