What is the use of windows azure?

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What is the use of windows azure?

Answer 1

Hi,

I think that you should specify your question a little bit. What do you exactly want to know? Azure is a big platform with a wide range of usage scenarios.

In general Windows Azure is Microsoft Cloud Computing platform and you can do a lot with it. On the one hand it can be used as a development platform and on the other hand as a virtualization platform (and of course a lot of things).

To become a little bit familiar with Azure you should visit the following sites:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Azure
• https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/

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Answer 2

It's a PaaS as well as IaaS. Have a look at this short 6 minute video to get a quick overview of it. To dive into more details and yet get quickly acquinted with it, watch Windows Azure Jump Start video series.

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Answer 3

What is the use of windows azure?

From my point of view as someone who lives writing and selling software, it has some big advantages

• For my simple programs Azure means my online versions will run on any client, Mac,PC,Mobile etc.
• I don't have to worry about people cracking and distributing my programs without paying me.
• I can re-use my old libraries.
• Azure takes care of a lot of things I don't have the knowledge or will to handle, like confuring and maintaining multiple servers.

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Answer 4

Windows Azure provides many services. Each services has its own usage.Broadly speaking, the services that Windows Azure provide can be separated into two categories, a) IaaS, infrastructure as a service, b) PaaS, platform as a service.

IaaS is basically providing data center hosted virtual machine. Many organizations prefer to use Microsoft Windows Azure hosted VM instead of managing those themselves to simplify the logistics and reduce costs. 

PaaS is cloud computing platform technology, for example Blob Storage, Table Storage, Queue, SQL Azure, Service Bus, Media Services, and Mobile services. Each services has its own set of use cases, for example, Blob storage enables Windows Azure application to read/write/update/delete large binary objects in data center.

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