September 2011
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
24h 27m
English
Azure is the Microsoft technology created to build and provide cloud-computing systems and applications. These applications will be hosted in the Microsoft datacenters and will give end users about 99.9% uptime, and the customer won’t need to invest in any infrastructure or IT services for their environment.
The concept of cloud computing invites companies to alter their perspective with regard to procuring expensive on-premises equipment and hard-to-manage support and consider moving to a service-oriented service Software as a Service (SaaS) where they pay for the time and resources consumed (similar to what we currently do for electricity or phone calls services).
Azure is the set of tools and APIs that changes the way ...