Windows Azure Under The Hood

By Martin Rolee


Many people have assumed Microsoft as being the 'less than stellar cloud service provider'. This really is a misconception. It truly is amongst the world's most under-estimated cloud service providers. For the younger age bracket who were raised using open source languages just like Ruby as well as Python, in addition to widely used classes like java training classes, Azure appears to be incapable of taking on languages other than .NET plus C#. But that's not the case. Microsoft's cloud service has long been working with programming languages like Ruby, Python, PHP as well as SUN Java for a while now and has reached a definite higher level of expertise.

Microsoft has actually been moving ahead with an aim so as to establish itself as a top cloud service provider. However the big obstacle it's been facing has been the unwillingness of companies to adapt to it even though it is giving high caliber services. A opinion has been established in the Silicon Valley that Microsoft is not a cloud service provider and this specific stigma is costing the Redmond company a great deal.

We have witnessed a number of takers for Microsoft's Azure and one of these, Jeremy Howard, is apparently quite happy about the service. When he first opted for Azure, many people scoffed at him while some even offered to teach him Java (he is knowledgeable in more than Sixteen programming languages). Nevertheless he says that there is next to nothing like C# and he is completely content to put it to use as even Azure works with JAVA.

Yet another firm that made a switch to Azure was Movideo, a mostly Java centric corporation. The President, Tony McGinn said that even though there were a few initial alterations needed to adopt their own solutions to Azure, it absolutely was more than worth it. He stated that the alteration required was more of a manual revamp course of action without much innovation and only using the proven method.

Therefore, in case you are among those young fellas who have taken up Python, Ruby, .NET and java development courses and searching for a cloud service provider, don't forget to take a good and neutral look at Microsoft's Azure before you make the last decision.




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