About Windows Azure Platform
The Windows Azure Services Platform is the cloud computing platform from Microsoft. It offers an infrastructure for scaling applications on the Internet where services and applications are hosted on Microsoft data centers. This means that with Windows Azure you do not need physical servers in your company because data and applications will be hosted by Microsoft servers. Windows Azure is instead just a part of the Azure Services Platform and is a 64-bit operating system providing the runtime and the environment for hosting your applications and the platform’s services and for managing the applications’ lifecycle as well.
One of the biggest benefits in developing for Windows Azure is that you can keep your existing ...
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