Preface

Microsoft is investing heavily in Azure, its cloud computing platform. It's tempting to view this trend as a fad, but it is obvious that Microsoft is committed to this endeavor, and businesses are realizing the benefits of a platform that abstracts and manages the complex tasks of infrastructure management and application lifecycle management on its behalf, to name just a couple of offerings.

As the platform matures, more enterprises move their systems and workloads to the cloud. Software as a Service (SaaS) providers now offer rich services that companies are attracted to, in order to provide a competitive edge to their operations. Although many SaaS solutions can be customized to fit particular use cases, this is often limited out of ...

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