Windows azure vs cloud

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Windows Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft datacenters.

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 poplar standards and protocols including SOAP, REST, XML, and PHP.

Windows Azure Benefits

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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Baimey Rajesh16y ago
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Azure is a kind of "OS for the cloud" that does for a managed pool of servers somewhere in a datacenter what an operating system like Windows does for desktops everywhere. Do you need the details on cloud?
rajesh p v16y ago
thankyou so much but i gt an idea about azure and cloud on browsing. I couldnot mark one of the answers as both are good and help ful.

thanks once agan :)
Kirtan Patel16y ago
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Windows Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft datacenters.

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 poplar standards and protocols including SOAP, REST, XML, and PHP.
Windows Azure Benefits

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.