Build New Applications into the Cloud with Microsoft Windows Azure: Datasheet
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Windows Azure is Microsoft's cloud services platform designed to provide scalable web solutions and manage infrastructure. It enables developers to build, deploy, and manage applications while offering features like automated management, storage, and access control. The platform supports hybrid IT environments and integrates with existing infrastructure to enhance application experiences across various devices.
Build New Applications into the Cloud with Microsoft Windows Azure: Datasheet
- 1. Windows Azure ® TM Introducing Windows Azure MICROSOFT’S CLOUD SERVICES PLATFORM technology and tools in new ways to achieve web-capable scalability. Focus on building solutions—let Windows® Azure™ manage the infrastructure. Introducing Windows Azure—an Internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers, which provides a platform and a set of services that can be used interoperable platform is used to build new applications maintaining and operating applications by providing on-demand compute capabilities and storage to host, scale and manage web services and connected applications. With Windows Azure, you can: Automate deployment and management of applications based compatibility Incrementally incorporate the cloud in to your architecture Delivering Software + Services Windows Azure is the latest technology in Microsoft’s Software + Services strategy, which helps meet the growing devices, on-premises applications and cloud-based services. Windows Azure delivers rich application experiences Windows Azure provides an environment fordeveloping, for businesses and consumers via PC, web and mobile devices. operating, migrating and managing applications using a common toolset.
- 2. The Windows Azure Platform The Windows Azure platform, combined with your applications, creates new opportunities to reach and interact with users via the Internet. Relational Data Compute Storage Management Windows Azure is the cloud Management computing services platform Connectivity Access Control from Microsoft that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform. Windows Azure, Microsoft SQL Azure and advanced optional features The Windows Azure platform such as the Windows Azure platform AppFabric Service Bus and Access Control and the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) Microsoft Data Centers IDC sees the launch of Windows are key components of the Windows The Windows Azure platform is Azure and Windows Azure Azure platform. hosted in Internet-accessible, distributed Microsoft data centers Microsoft SQL Azure providing availability, scalability, long evolutionary path that capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server customers will take moving into the cloud as a web-based, state-of-the-art security processes. them from today’s self-hosted IT distributed relational database. to consuming a hybrid of both Rich Development Environment Virtualization and Abstraction Developers create Windows Azure internally and externally hosted Windows Azure is a “fabric” of virtual applications and services using services, and if so desired, could machines providing a set of cloud- familiar programming models and eventually support a fully based application services including: tools such as Visual Studio 2008. outsourced model. –IDC Insight, Microsoft Unveils Compute Services The Windows Azure platform can Cloud Services Strategy and the Web and compute application be an essential part of your IT Azure Services Platform: Managing portfolio by: Customer Expectations and components scale independently Competitive Pressures as Solution as needed. Automating critical system Evolves Is Key, Nov 2008, Doc #215034 management tasks, freeing you Data Storage Services to focus on the needs of your Simple, durable, and scalable data customers and users. Providing scalable computing Resources and Links storage is managed automatically. and storage capacity, eliminating the need for additional hardware For more information, visit: Services Management to meet unpredictable spikes www.windowsazure.com The Windows Azure fabric controller provides automatic management, in usage. Get started today: provisioning and scaling. www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/ applications to the cloud, getstarted/ Security and Control enabling advanced interactions Storage encryption, access with consumers, business Follow us on Twitter at: authentication, and over-the-wire partners or other organizations. @windowsazure encryption are available. © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. This document supports a preliminary release of a software product that may be changed change without notice. The entire risk of the use or the results from the use of this document remains with the user. Microsoft may have patents, provided in any written license agreement from Microsoft, the furnishing of this document does not give you any license to these patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property. Microsoft, the Microsoft logo, Active Directory, Azure, Visual Studio and Windows Live are trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.