Microsoft Azure
- Headquarters - Microsoft Redmond campus, Redmond, Washington, United States
- Founded - Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, April 4, 1975
- Founders - Bill Gates,Paul Allen
- Website URL - https://azure.microsoft.com
- Microsoft is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers, services.
- Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite,Internet Explorer, azure and Edge web browsers.
- Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and Cloud infrastructure created by Microsoft for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers.
- microsoft cloud server hosting supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems.
- microsoft cloud hosting, with its Azure Infrastructure Services, is the only other IaaS vendor to make the Leaders quadrant.
- azure holds second place in market share, with more than twice as much cloud IaaS compute capacity as the other providers Gartner studied (excluding AWS).
- Gartner recommends Azure for general business applications and development environments for Microsoft-centric organizations, as well as cloud-native applications and batch computing.
- Microsoft's Windows Azure Blob Storage may be the second most widely-used cloud storage service.
- While supporting a broad range of features including object storage, table storage, SQL Server and a content delivery network (CDN).
- Azure's Blob storage is in a pricing "race to the bottom," with Amazon, Google and Microsoft each dropping prices consistently during the past year to offer the most competitive prices among the three competitors.
- Microsoft a "fast-follower" of feature roll outs behind Amazon as well in the field of microsoft cloud.
- microsoft cloud storage has bulked up its storage chops too by recently purchasing cloud storage gateway vendor StorSimple.
Microsoft Products
Azure Virtual Machines :
Create Linux and Windows virtual machines in minutes
Azure App Service :
- azure Microsoft Develop powerful applications for any platform or device, faster than ever before.
- microsoft storage - Meet rigorous performance, scalability, security, and compliance requirements using a single back-end.
microsoft sql azure :
- Building and maintaining applications are easier and more productive.
- microsoft sql azure - With built-in intelligence that learns app patterns and adapts to maximize performance, reliability, and data protection,SQL Database is a cloud database built for developers.
microsoft cloud storage :
- Range of solutions for every need
- Scalability
- As per the needs Flexibility will change
- Lower costs, and pay only for what you need
Azure Cloud Services
microsoft online services - Deploy highly-available, infinitely-scalable applications and APIs
- Focus on apps, not hardware
- Support for Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, .NET, and Ruby
- Autoscale to meet demand and save money
- Deploy thousands of instances in minutes
- Integrated health, monitoring and load-balancing
- Automatic operating system and application patching
Azure Cloud Services
Some of the key services includes
- microsoft cloud backup - a clean strategy to backup the files and servers were implemented.
- microsoft office in the cloud - Achieved using office 365 product of microsoft
- microsoft cloud for business - cloud for variety of high, medium and low scale business.
- microsoft exchange cloud - cloud for email services.
- microsoft cloud file sharing - services to share and load huge files with highest security