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Windows Azure: Cloud Computing at it’s best

Cloud computing: Usage of computer resources whether it is hardware & software, delivered as a service over the internet. This type of computing in simpler words mean a virtual server on which all the data is stored, which can be accessed from any place and device with internet availability. It entrusts these remote services with the user’s data, computation and software.

As the concept of cloud computing caught the drift, all major companies came up with their own products related to it. Software giant, Microsoft came up with Windows Azure which is a cloud computing platform. This platform of MS is designed for building, managing and deploying applications on a global network of MS managed data centers. Developers can build applications in any of the languages, using any tools and platforms and still can integrate these with their existing IT environment using Windows Azure.

Here is all the required data to make you familiar with this new cloud computing platform by Microsoft.

Features:

Website Development

The highly scalable cloud computing environment of Windows Azure allows web developers to start on a small scale for website development and then growing it as time passes. Any of the languages can be used for development of the website and then it can be deployed on Azure with FTP, Git and TFS. Services provided by Azure like Caching, CDN, Storage and SQL Database.

Go Mobile

Using this cloud service platform mobile app developer can accelerate the development with the help of Azure. Azure provides incorporating user authentication, structured storage and push notification. With Azure you can have a secure backend to handle common tasks and so the developer can properly manage the front end which really matters.

Media in the Cloud

PaaS (Platform as a Service) which is Azure’s service offer provide encoding, content protection, streaming and analytics for the creation and distribution of media in the cloud.

Cloud Service

With PaaS (Platform as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service) in Azure developers can make scalable applications and services. These all apps and services can then be deployed in the cloud and made available to customers anywhere around the world.

Execution Models:

There are 3 different execution models provided by Azure and usage of each one of these depend on what exactly is your aim of your development. Different execution models provided by the cloud computing platform Azure are:

• Websites• Cloud Services• Virtual Machines

Data Management

Data management and analysis is very important in the cloud server just like in normal servers and maybe even more. For this same reason Azure provides various technologies mentioned below for working with relational and non-relational data:

• Blob Storage• Hadoop• Running a DBMS in a Virtual Machine• SQL Database• Table Storage

Networking in Azure

As mentioned earlier in the article that the data in the virtual server can be accessed from anywhere using the internet but it’s always not as easy as it sounds. There are 3 different ways provided by MS for connecting with Azure data centers:

• Connect• Traffic Manager• Virtual Network

Development of web services, applications and everything is going through a major phase of the change after this cloud platform came into existence. Web development in India is also coming up with new techniques daily to meet with current market demands and have been developing services which are appreciated by their clients.

About the author: Smartkathy manages a team of web developers who are specifically working on web development services designed specifically for cloud computing platform. The author strongly believes that web development India is a good option for getting these services.