The Windows Azure platform offers a flexible, familiar environment for developers to create cloud applications and services. With Windows Azure, you can shorten your time to market and adapt as demand for your service grows.
Windows Azure offers a platform that is easily implemented alongside your current environment.
Windows Azure: operating system as an online service
Microsoft SQL Azure: fully relational cloud database solution
Windows Azure platform AppFabric: connects cloud services and on-premises applications
Microsoft Codename “Dallas”: information marketplace for data and web services
Overview
What is the Windows Azure Platform?
The Windows Azure platform is a set of cloud computing services that can be used together or independently that enable:
- Developers use existing skills and familiar tools to develop cloud applications
- ISVs and System Integrators rapidly reach market and pay as you go
- IT Managers gain access to a new set of resources without adding complexity
- Businesses of all sizes to quickly respond as business needs change
Windows Azure™ is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft® datacenters.
Windows Azure is a flexible platform that supports multiple languages and integrates with your existing on-premises environment. To build applications and services on Windows Azure, developers can use their existing Microsoft Visual Studio expertise. In addition, Windows Azure supports popular standards and protocols including SOAP, REST, XML, and PHP
Use Windows Azure to:
Run enterprise workloads in the cloud
Build, modify, and distribute scalable applications with minimal on-premises resources
Perform large-volume storage, batch processing, intense or large-volume computations
Create, test, debug, and distribute Web services quickly and inexpensively
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
Choose an on-premises or off-premises deployment model that best suits your needs.
Scale your IT resources up and down based on your needs.
Consume computing resources ONLY when the needs arise.
Focus less energy on managing operational resources and constraints.
Remove the need to manage hardware
Use your existing development skills to build cloud applications
Consistent development and management experience across on-premises and the cloud.
Microsoft® SQL Azure™
Database is a cloud-based relational database service built on SQL Server® technologies. It provides a highly available, scalable, multi-tenant database service hosted by Microsoft in the cloud. SQL Azure Database helps to ease provisioning and deployment of multiple databases. Developers do not have to install, setup, patch or manage any software. High availability and fault tolerance is built-in and no physical administration is required. SQL Azure Database supports Transact-SQL (T-SQL). Customers can use existing knowledge in T-SQL development and a familiar relational data model for symmetry with existing on-premises databases. SQL Azure Database can help reduce costs by integrating with existing toolsets and providing symmetry with on-premises and cloud databases.
Use SQL Azure Database to:
· Build scalable, custom web applications, which is especially a need for small to mid-size businesses, hobbyist, and startups
· Build packaged line-of-business applications, which is attractive to traditional, SaaS ISVs and custom developers
· Build corporate departmental applications
· Consolidate multiple data sources in the Cloud and enable secure access from multiple locations, desktop and/or devices
Benefits of using SQL Azure
· No need to install or patch software or other physical administration
· Automatic high availability and fault tolerance
· Simple provisioning and deployment of multiple databases
· Scale databases up or down based on business needs
· Multi-tenant
· Integration with SQL Server and tooling including Visual Studio
· Support for T-SQL based familiar relational database model
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