Windows Azure Appliance

Microsoft has been pushing the concept of The Cloud for some time. This includes the public cloud, which includes the Azure services. Azure is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution that is available on a subscription basis. It allows application developers to build an online application on a Microsoft-hosted infrastructure that can be replicated between their geographically distributed data centers.

Some organizations will not be able to or will choose not to use Microsoft's Azure public cloud services. Microsoft announced in July 2010 that it's going to release a new Azure appliance. This will allow customers to deploy Azure's PaaS in a private cloud. This solution could end up being released within corporations for ...

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