February 2010
Beginner
400 pages
11h 13m
English
Content preview from Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
16.16. Advantages
Here is a summary of the main advantages of Windows Azure and cloud computing:
Low entry cost and ability to quickly scale up your applications infrastructure for peaks of demand
No infrastructure expertise necessary—let Microsoft take care of this for you
Potentially cheaper than a dedicated data center, although a detailed analysis would be necessary to determine this
Greener computing
Allows you to utilize existing .NET skills
No hardware compatibility issues due to abstraction of hardware (although I would question how much of a problem this currently is)