Windows Azure: New Operating System for Cloud Computing

The cloud computing space is now really heating up with competing platform plays from Google’s AppEngine and Amazon’s recent EC2 announcements.Microsoft has also joined the race.Ray Ozzie announced the New operating System for Cloude computing named WINDOWS AZURE in PDC 2008.

Windows Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft data centers.The major features it provids are Automated Service Management, Powerful Service hosting environment, Scalable , avilable cloude storage and a Rich familier developer experience.

So visit http://www.microsoft.com/azure/windowsazure.mspx. Download the SDK, register yourslf to try it out today .

To watch the PDC2008 Keynotes on Windows Azure visit http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/KYN01/

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