Foreword

Over the last couple of years, we have seen Azure evolve from a simple .NET-based platform to an open and flexible platform, supporting the broadest selection of operating systems, programming languages, frameworks, tools, databases and devices for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and software-as-a-service (SaaS) workloads. As a result, Azure is growing at an amazing rate with both existing and new customers.

Today, there is not a single industry that does not consider making use of the cloud in one form or another, from big compute to Dev/Test to SaaS solutions. For IT and developers, flexibility and agility are the number one reason for adopting Azure. A typical pattern of customers adopting Azure is ...

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