Azure Platform Benefits
The Azure platform offers developers and infrastructure teams a new way of thinking about the deployment and management of their applications. The following provide an overview of the benefits of Azure from four of the primary perspectives:
• Azure as an operating system—Windows Azure is at its base an operating system designed to work across multiple servers (both physical and virtualized). In fact, you can think of Azure as an operating system exposed as a service. To make this possible, it includes what is called an application fabric (AppFabric). The AppFabric is responsible for handling the provisioning, scalability, fault-tolerance, load-balancing, failure detection, and monitoring of your applications. The AppFabric ...
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