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Windows Azure Cloud Hosting Review

Thursday, July 15th, 2010
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Overview:
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.

  • Compute = $0.12 / hour
  • Storage = $0.15 / GB stored / month
  • Storage transactions = $0.01 / 10K
  • Data transfers (excluding CDN) = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB – ($0.30 in / $0.45 out / GB in Asia)*
  • CDN data transfers = $0.15 GB for North America and Europe ($0.20 GB elsewhere)**
  • CDN transactions = $0.01 / 10K**
  • Introductory Special – Promotional offer with an amount of Windows Azure Platform services provided each month at no charge. Requires no monthly commitment and is the first plan to choose if you are unsure how much you will use each month. For SQL Azure this offer is only valid for 3 months.
  • Consumption – Flexible “Pay As You Go” plan for all Windows Azure platform services. If you need one or more additional subscriptions that require no monthly commitment, this is the plan for you.
  • MSDN Premium – Promotional offer with a monthly amount of Windows Azure Platform services provided as an added benefit to MSDN premium subscribers. Requires you to be a MSDN Premium subscriber.

Features:

Windows Azure Platform products overview

  • 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

Summary:

  • 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.

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Reliability and Uptime:
Microsoft Windows Azure has 99.95% uptime

Customer Support:
24/7/365

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Windows Azure as Top Cloud Choice for Developers

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Windows Azure as Top Cloud Choice for Developers is what the head of Microsoft’s Windows Azure team said at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC).  Microsoft has positioned Windows Azure as the “general purpose” cloud platform in the cloud hosting industry. The key Microsoft officials delivered targeted messages about the Windows Azure platform as the more mainstream, general-purpose cloud platform as compared to competing offerings such as Amazon Web Services, Google App Engine and Salesforce.com’s solutions, among others.

“At Microsoft we’re pulling platform as a service (PAAS) and infrastructure as a service (IAAS) together in Windows Azure,” said Bob Muglia, president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft. “Windows Azure is the world’s first general purpose cloud platform,” he added.

Amitabh Srivastava, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Server and Cloud Division said in an interview when asked about the Windows Azure cloud server; “Google is a platform as a service, but it’s only restricted to two languages – Python and Java. You have to fit in with the way they do things. We’re being general purpose. Amazon is an infrastructure as a service; they provide no tools support. How you develop your applications is your concern. You’re on your own. We support any language and multiple frameworks. We provide a rich ecosystem of technology or you can use open source software like MySQL or Apache. Our approach is we don’t put any shackles on the developer.”

Srivastava who is part of the Azure “Red Dog” development team that created the Windows Azure cloud computing platform, said from its inception Windows Azure targeted developers.

“When we were developing Azure from day one it was done for developers,” he said. “You have to allow developers to bring their skills, their current set of skills, to the cloud. So we said developers should get to choose tha language they want to use. You can use any environment you want. You can use Visual Studio or you can do the entire development in Eclipse. You can’t pigeonhole developers into one or two languages or one or two frameworks. Just because our lineage is Windows Server doesn’t mean we will restrict you to using C# or a Microsoft language.”

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Powering the Cloud with AMD Opteron

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Overview: Gartner and IDC list cloud computing as a top IT trend for 2010. The foundation of cloud computing is a scale-out server cluster that uses economies of scale to provide computing services to the user. Cloud services include the delivery of applications, platforms, and infrastructure.

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