WINDOWS AZURE

What is “Azure”?

Windows Azure simply can be described as the Operating System made by Microsoft Corporation for the “Cloud”.

What is “Cloud”?

Now, the Cloud means “Internet” and its infrastructure and various other applications such as hardware, software, computing power which is managed by particular company which has a “Data-center”.

What is a “Data-center”?

Data-center has huge collection of servers which are connected through very large network of routers and switches and thousands of miles of cabling, A Data-center is where the internet lives. They are mainly used for storage of data, hosting web sites and are never tuned “off”.

Back to Azure

Windows Azure is the Operating system for cloud computing which provides an environment that has automated service management, immense computing potential, practically unlimited storage. It is available 24/7 with the ability to scale up and down with very little problems. This helps the developer to focus more on the applications rather than worrying about the system’s infrastructure.

Windows Azure has very powerful hosting environment which makes it favorite amongst the cloud community. All the servers are virtualized efficiently with multiple fault domains which make the overall system fault tolerant and very high in availability.

Reliable storage is an essential element of any application platform today. Windows Azure provides highly scalable cloud storage with the ability to store data in various forms such as tables, queues, blobs etc 

Development:-

Windows Azure developers have made very efficient and easy to use platform for developing cloud based applications, the experience you get while developing is almost same as the Microsoft’s visual studio. And the developers can run and test applications on desktop as well.