Build new applications or extend your existing applications into the cloud using familiar technology and tools in new ways to achieve web-capable scalability. Focus on building solutions—let Windows® Azure™ manage the infrastructure.

1. Windows Azure ® TM
Introducing Windows Azure
MICROSOFT’S CLOUD SERVICES PLATFORM
technology and tools in new ways to achieve web-capable scalability. Focus on building
solutions—let Windows® Azure™ manage the infrastructure.
Introducing Windows Azure—an Internet-scale cloud
services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers, which
provides a platform and a set of services that can be used
interoperable platform is used to build new applications
maintaining and operating applications by providing
on-demand compute capabilities and storage to host, scale
and manage web services and connected applications.
With Windows Azure, you can:
Automate deployment and management of applications
based compatibility
Incrementally incorporate the cloud in to
your architecture
Delivering Software + Services
Windows Azure is the latest technology in Microsoft’s
Software + Services strategy, which helps meet the growing
devices, on-premises applications and cloud-based services.
Windows Azure delivers rich application experiences
Windows Azure provides an environment fordeveloping, for businesses and consumers via PC, web and mobile devices.
operating, migrating and managing applications using a
common toolset.

2. The Windows Azure Platform
The Windows Azure platform,
combined with your applications,
creates new opportunities to
reach and interact with users via
the Internet. Relational Data
Compute Storage Management
Windows Azure is the cloud Management
computing services platform Connectivity Access Control
from Microsoft that serves as the
development, service hosting and
service management environment
for the Windows Azure platform.
Windows Azure, Microsoft SQL Azure
and advanced optional features
The Windows Azure platform
such as the Windows Azure platform
AppFabric Service Bus and Access
Control and the Windows Azure
Content Delivery Network (CDN) Microsoft Data Centers IDC sees the launch of Windows
are key components of the Windows The Windows Azure platform is Azure and Windows Azure
Azure platform. hosted in Internet-accessible,
distributed Microsoft data centers
Microsoft SQL Azure providing availability, scalability, long evolutionary path that
capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server customers will take moving
into the cloud as a web-based, state-of-the-art security processes. them from today’s self-hosted IT
distributed relational database.
to consuming a hybrid of both
Rich Development Environment
Virtualization and Abstraction Developers create Windows Azure internally and externally hosted
Windows Azure is a “fabric” of virtual applications and services using services, and if so desired, could
machines providing a set of cloud- familiar programming models and eventually support a fully
based application services including: tools such as Visual Studio 2008.
outsourced model.
–IDC Insight, Microsoft Unveils
Compute Services The Windows Azure platform can Cloud Services Strategy and the
Web and compute application be an essential part of your IT Azure Services Platform: Managing
portfolio by: Customer Expectations and
components scale independently
Competitive Pressures as Solution
as needed. Automating critical system Evolves Is Key, Nov 2008, Doc #215034
management tasks, freeing you
Data Storage Services to focus on the needs of your
Simple, durable, and scalable data customers and users.
Providing scalable computing
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storage is managed automatically.
and storage capacity, eliminating
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Services Management
to meet unpredictable spikes www.windowsazure.com
The Windows Azure fabric controller
provides automatic management, in usage.
Get started today:
provisioning and scaling. www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/
applications to the cloud,
getstarted/
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