Microsoft innovation takes one step further, with the announcement of Windows Azure by Ray Ozzie at the Microsoft Professionnal Developper Conference in Los Angeles on October 27th, this upcoming operating system is based on cloud-computing, that means that the data processing is made by lots of machines in a collaborative and coherent way, that forms what is called a cloud, this latter then can be used to perform huge resource-consuming computations or to store data of big and growing size, this operating system hosts the Azure Service Platform that offers developers with a variety of tools and services like Microsoft Live, Microsoft .NET services.., that enable them to develop rich distributed applications that use the cloud services.
Azure services
For now Windows Azure has a great support of Visual Studio, other development environment and non-Microsoft languages are coming soon such as: Eclipse, PHP, Ruby, Python, all you have to do is to write your cloud application and host it in the Microsoft data centers that form the Widnows Azure cloud, these data centers are highly scalable, and offer lots of facilities such as infrastructure management, storage models…Developers should no longer worry about the growth of their applications, or the way their applications are accessed, everything is covered by the cloud! Life is beautiful, isn’t it? Now let’s see the announcement video, it’s a must-see!
Ray Ozzie announces Microsoft Windows Azure at the PDC.
The Azure’s official site:
http://www.microsoft.com/azure
I can’t wait to give it a shot. 😉
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