Kartik Shah’s brag on SharePoint technologies, Microsoft Consulting, communities, business, p2p networking, IT in business

Cloud computing is the buzz all around. Microsoft has already geared for this new technology buzz and businesses started adopting is faster than before. For those who had experience with mainframe systems can say “ok, so what’s new except connectivity and collaboration possible with Internet bandwidth now?” no, its not that, if we look closely it has lot of which everyone was waiting since long. However with the complexity of integrating LOBs and other business critical application makes everybody worried until the launch of this Azure Services Platform by Microsoft. Since this is first release don’t expect this to be perfect but yes this is great starting of cloud computing with challenges to address by enterprises on whether to adopt this or not with corporate data security reason except they choose to do on-premise implementation (which is wise and what enterprise should be looking for).

MS Cloud computing platform provides a wide range of internet services that can be consumed from both on-premises environments and the internet though the platform itself will not be made available for on-premises deployments. The Azure Services Platform runs on Windows Azure operating system which is functional on “fabric layer” (a cluster hosted at Microsoft's datacenters that manages computing and storage resources of the computers and provisions the resources (or a subset of them) to applications running on top of Windows Azure.).

The Microsoft cloud computing offers ready to use applications for businesses like Microsoft Dynamics™, SharePoint Online, SQL Online, Exchange Online and other Microsoft Online Services. The Azure Services Platform lets developers provide their own unique customer offerings by offering the foundational components of compute, storage, and building block services to author and compose applications in the cloud. Thus the Microsoft Cloud Computing – Azure Services Platform – offers a range of businesses flexibility, control, and an affordable solution for running browser based applications.