Chapter 37. Building and Deploying Applications for Windows Azure
In This Chapter
• Overview of the Windows Azure Platform
• Registering for the Windows Azure Developer Portal
Maintaining servers and data centers has costs and requires a company to have people specifically working on maintenance and administration. To reduce costs, a new way of thinking about data and web applications working on data is cloud computing. The idea of cloud computing is that you eliminate physical servers and data centers from your company’s location and deploy your web applications to servers that are elsewhere in the world and maintained by ...
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