Introducing: Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Platform & Services

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Introducing: Microsoft Azure Computing Platform & Services, The Breakdown:

We would like to introduce a new service offering: Azure Cloud Computing Platform & Services.  So what exactly is Azure?

Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, a growing collection of integrated services—analytics, computing, database, mobile, networking, storage, and web—for moving faster, achieving more, and saving money. 

From over 10 features Microsoft Azure is a one stop shop for cloud computing. Rest assured to know you will not need to go anywhere else. Below is a compilation of Azure Cloud Computing Platform and Services. This is the most comprehensive breakdown you’ll find on Microsoft Azure.

We’ve compiled a list of the Microsoft Azure features:

High Performance Computing: run large-scale workloads in the cloud

• Virtual Machine: Launch Windows Server and Linux in minutes
• Cloud Services: Deploy highly-available, infinitely-scalable applications and APIs
• Batch: Cloud-scale job scheduling and compute management
• RemoteApp: Bring scale, agility and global access to your business applications

Web & Mobile: build mobile apps with Azure

• App Service: Create web and mobile apps for any platform
  • Mobile Apps: Build engaging iOS, Android, and Windows apps
• Web Apps: Create and deploy mission critical Web Apps that scale with your business
• Logic Apps: Logic apps enable you to develop and deliver power integration solutions with ease
• API Apps: Expose your application to 50+ popular SaaS APIs and share your API in your organization
• API Management: Take any backend and publish an API in minutes
• Notification Hubs: Send push notifications to any platform, from any backend
• Mobile Engagement: Drive app performance through real-time, data-driven management

Data & Storage:

• SQL Database: A relational database-as-a-service that makes tier-1 capabilities easily accessible
• DocumentDB: The JSON database for rapid development. Develop today, ship today.
• Microsoft Azure Redis Cache: High throughput, consistent low latency data access to power fast scalable Azure applications.
• Storage: Reliable, economical cloud storage for data big and small
• StorSimple: A unique hybrid cloud storage solution that lowers costs and improves data protection
• Azure Search: Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
• SQL Data Warehouse: An elastic data warehouse-as-a-service with enterprise-class features

Analytics: learn to use Azure for data processing and visualizations.

• HDInsight: Provision managed Hadoop Clusters
• Machine Learning: Powerful cloud-based predictive analytics
• Stream Analytics: Real-time stream processing
• Data Factory: Orchestrate and manage data transformation and movement
• Event Hubs: Ingest, persist, and process millions of events per second
• SQL Data Warehouse: Warehouse-as-a-service with enterprise-class features
• Data Catalog: Data Source discovery to get more value from existing enterprise data assets.

Internet of Things (IoT): learn to connect people and devices across your business.

• Event Hubs: Receive telemetry from millions of devices
• Stream Analytics: Real-time data stream processing from millions of IoT devices
• Machine Learning: Powerful cloud based predictive analytics tool to enable predictive maintenance
• Notifications Hubs: A Scalable, push notification engine for quickly sending millions of messages

Networking:

• Virtual Network: Provision private networks, optionally connect to on-premises datacenters
• ExpressRoute: Dedicated private network fiber connections to Azure
• Traffic Manager: Route incoming traffic for high performance availability
• Load Balancer: Deliver high availability and network performance to your applications
• DNS: Host your DNS domain in Azure
• VPN Gateway: Establish secure, cross-premises connectivity
• Application Gateway: Highly scalable websites with HTTP load balancing and delivery control

Media & CDN:

• Media Services: Encode, store, and stream video and audio at scale
• Encoding: Studio Grade encoding at Coud Scale
• Azure Media Player: A single player for all your playback needs
• Media Intelligence: Enhance discoverability and accessibility of media
• Content Protection: Securely deliver content using AES or PlayReady
• Live and On-Demand Streaming: Deliver your content to virtually all devices with scale to meet your business needs
• Azure CDN: Deliver content to end-users through a robust network of global data centers

Hybrid Integration:

• BizTalk Services: Seamlessly integrate the enterprise and the cloud
• Service Bus: Connect across private and public cloud environments
• Backup: Simple and reliable server backup to the cloud
• Site Recovery: Orchestrate protection and recovery of private clouds

Identity & Access Management:

• Azure Active Directory: Synchronize on-premises directories and enable single sign-on
• Multi-Factor Authentication: Safeguard access to your data and apps with an extra level of authentications

Developer Services:

• Visual Studio Online: Services for teams to share code, track works, and ship software– for any language
• Visual Studio Application Insights: Diagnose problems and track usage to improve web and mobile apps

Management:

• Microsoft Azure preview portal: Explore the new Microsoft Azure preview portal
• Scheduler: Rune your jobs on simple or complex recurring schedules
• Automation: Simplify cloud management with process automation
• Operation Insights: Collect, search and visualize machine data from on-premises and cloud
• Key Vault: Safeguard and maintain control of keys and other secrets

So how much does all this goodness cost?…

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