Windows Azure is a core cloud service platform that provides an extremely diverse variety of services. It covers broad range computing services that are available for business, developers, anyone who need to run and enterprise on the internet without having to have expensive hardware or software. It is a public cloud computing platform and provides solutions such as Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). It has limitless potential and unlimited possibilities. Whether it is a startup business or an established, it needs a computing platform to run the business. Windows Azure just makes that possible by offering a cloud computing platform and other services such as virtual servers, storage, databases, networking, analytics and so on.

Why Windows Azure?

The only purpose of Windows Azure is to provide functionality over the Internet. Microsoft Azure website provides a list of hundreds of services that you can use and choose from depending on your organizations’ needs and preferences.

5 Major Benefits of Adopting Windows Azure 

• Secure

Azure was designed on industry-leading security process called as Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). Being one of the first to embrace the international standard for cloud privacy, ISO 27018, it keeps your private data and services stay safe on Azure. It offers the best safety for all operations and data on the Azure cloud.

• Scalability

One of the great advantages of using Azure is its scalability. Assume you have to scale your system to cope up with the demand, you can simply add extra resources and computing devices. You can increase or decrease the storage capacity depending on the need and its quite easy to achieve this scalability in Azure.

• Integration with Microsoft Office Tools

Most of the company are heavily depend on Microsoft office tools such as Office 365, Outlook, SharePoint etc. A user can use the feature of Single Sign On (SSO) to login on to Azure AD so that they can access all of their cloud-based application without needing any additional on-premises components.

• Platform for developers

Azure provides a good platform for developing, hosting and managing web or mobile apps. Azure makes it possible to create and globally deploy software and application on all popular web or mobile platforms. Developers can test, choose from prebuilt APIs and deploy software to accelerate the development phase and can gain a competitive advantage to release the product into the market as fast as possible.

• Disaster Recovery

Microsoft has its vast, high-speed and geographically decentralized infrastructure developed to mitigate any risk that may affect your data from getting corrupted or hacked or any other natural cause that might possess a risk to your on-premise data centre. You have the option to create a limitless strategy for disaster management for recovery. Azure guarantees continuous service delivery even when disaster strikes.

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