Simple, Rich, Fast, Windows Azure.
What is Windows Azure?
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.
Benefits |
Features | Consulting | FAQ
Windows Azure Benefits
Reduces costs and efforts
Windows Azure eliminates the need for capital costs associated with building additional
infrastructure and instead offers a pay-as-you-go model—only paying for the computing
power and storage your business needs.
Simplifies development of rich, scalable solutions.
Developers benefit from ready access to Windows Azure technologies in an already
familiar environment.
Speeds up Time-to-Market
The reduced development effort results in applications that can be produced in weeks
instead of months, which means they are out in the market faster than your competition.
Variety of Uses
- Run 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 Features
Computation
- Ability to run Microsoft ASP.NET Web applications or .NET code in the cloud
- Service hosting environment that includes Internet Information Services 7.0 and
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0
- Security supported by flexible Code Access Security policies
- Small runtime API that supports logging and local scratch storage
- Web portal that helps you deploy, scale, and upgrade your services quickly and easily
- FastCGI support allows customers to deploy and run web applications written with
non-Microsoft programming languages such as PHP
- .NET Full Trust to allow usage of additional .NET features such as Windows Communication
Foundation (WCF).
- From Full Trust .NET, developers can call into unmanaged DLLs
Simple Data Storage
- Blobs, tables, and queues hosted in the cloud, close to your computation
- Authenticated access and triple replication to help keep your data safe
- Easy access to data with simple REST interfaces, available remotely and from the
data center
Development Tools
- Complete offline development environment, including computation and storage services
- Complete command-line SDK tools and samples
- Visual Studio add-in that enables local debugging
- Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio 2008 and Visual
Studio 2010 Beta 1 to enable the creation, building, debugging, running and packaging
of scalable web applications and services on Windows Azure.
Cloud Consulting Services
You don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Through our experiences working with customers,
partners, and our own employees internally we have developed an approach that utilizes
best practices, existing modules and Vorsite products.
Assess
Cloud Assessment
Prove
Proof of Concept
Deploy
Onboarding
Customize
Application Porting
Custom Azure Development
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between Windows Azure and the Windows Azure Platform?
Windows Azure provides the Windows-based environment for running applications and
storing data on servers in Microsoft data centers.
Windows Azure platform is a combination of Windows Azure, SQL Azure and Windows Azure
AppFabric.
Watch the Microsoft
video on the Windows Azure Platform