Cloud Services
Windows Azure
Windows Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.
Virtual Machines (VMs)
- Virtual Machines deliver on-demand, scalable compute infrastructure when you need to quickly provision resources to meet your growing business needs. With Virtual Machines, you get choice of Windows Server and Linux operating systems in multiple configurations on top of the trustworthy Windows Azure foundation.
Virtual Machines give your applications and systems full mobility, allowing you to move virtual hard disks (VHDs) back and forth between on-premises and the cloud. Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint Server, BizTalk Server, and many more server applications are validated to run on Virtual Machines. Windows Azure provides health and availability monitoring, auto scaling, and alerting as well.
Websites
- Windows Azure offers open, secure and flexible development, deployment and scaling options for any sized web application. Leverage your existing tools to create and deploy applications without the hassle of managing infrastructure. Once deployed keep your sites always up-to-date with support for continuous deployment.
Windows Azure Web Sites provides custom domain with both A and CNAME records support as well as support for SSL with both SNI and IP-based SSL certificates for sessions over HTTPS. Developers can create applications new applications from scratch or deploy existing ones built in ASP.NET, PHP, Node.js, Python or even Classic ASP. You can include a database when you provision a new site with a choice of SQL database or MySQL.
Cloud Services
- Virtual Machines deliver on-demand, scalable compute infrastructure when you need to quickly provision resources to meet your growing business needs. With Virtual Machines, you get choice of Windows Server and Linux operating systems in multiple configurations on top of the trustworthy Windows Azure foundation.
Virtual Machines give your applications and systems full mobility, allowing you to move virtual hard disks (VHDs) back and forth between on-premises and the cloud. Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint Server, BizTalk Server, and many more server applications are validated to run on Virtual Machines. Windows Azure provides health and availability monitoring, auto scaling, and alerting as well.
Storage
- Windows Azure provides scalable, durable cloud storage, backup, and recovery solutions for any data, big and small. It works with the infrastructure you already have to cost-effectively enhance your existing applications and business continuity strategy, as well as provide storage required by your cloud applications including unstructured text or binary data such as video, audio and images.
Backup
- Windows Azure Backup helps you protect important server data off-site with automated backup to the cloud. These backups are off-site, safely away from your datacenter, protected by reliable Windows Azure storage, reducing the need to secure and protect on-site backup media. Manage cloud backups from the familiar backup tools in Windows Server, Windows Server Essentials, or System Center Data Protection Manager. Or you can use the agent software itself.
After data is backed up to the cloud, authorized users can easily recover backups to any server. With incremental backups, only changes to files are transferred to the cloud. This helps ensure efficient use of storage and reduced bandwidth consumption, while enabling point-in-time recovery of multiple versions of the data.
Hyper-V Recovery Manager
- Hyper-V Recovery Manager monitors the state of Virtual Machine Manage clouds continuously and remotely from Windows Azure. This service helps automate the orderly recovery in the event of a site outage at the primary data center. VMs can be brought up in an orchestrated fashion to help restore service quickly. This process can also be used for testing recovery, or temporarily transferring services.
Active Directory
- Windows Azure Active Directory delivers an enterprise ready cloud identity service enabling a single sign-on experience across cloud and on-premises applications. It allows multi-factor authentication for added security and compliance.
Now you have one identity service across Windows Azure, Microsoft Office 365, Dynamics CRM Online, Windows Intune and other 3rd party cloud services. Quickly extend your existing on-premises Active Directory to apply policy and control and authenticate users with their existing corporate credentials to Windows Azure and other cloud services. Easily manage access to your applications based on centralized policy and rules. Ensure consistent and appropriate access to your organizations applications is maintained to meet critical internal security and compliance needs.
Convenient authentication options (mobile apps, phone calls, and text messages) and single sign-on (with popular web identity providers like Microsoft Account, Google, Yahoo!, and Facebook) allow for a simple sign-on experience while providing the strong security procedures that organizations require.
