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Windows Azure Blob

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Overview Windows Azure is the foundation of Microsoft's Cloud Platform. It is the "Operating System for the Cloud" that provides essential building blocks for application developers to write scalable and highly available services. Windows Azure provides: Virtualized Computation, Scalable Storage, Automated Management and Rich Developer SDK. Windows Azure Storage allows application developers to store their data in the cloud, so the application can access its data from anywhere at any time, store any amount of data and for any length of time, and be confident that the data is durable and will not be lost.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	WORD
Date Published	December 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Cloud Computing

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Building a Real-World Model to Assess Virtualization Platforms

To drive business decisions in the data center, Intel IT created a performance-driven methodology to compare the operating costs of virtualization platforms. We approximate the total cost of ownership (TCO)...

Publisher:
Intel

ISV Quotes for the Intel Xeon Processor 7400 Series

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Publisher:
Intel

Leading Virtualization Performance and Energy Efficiency in a Multi-processor Server: Intel Xeon processor 7400 series

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Publisher:
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21st-century-learning Infrastructure Supported by Intel vPro Technology: Viglen helps Green School drive innovation in learning

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Publisher:
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Reducing IT resource needs and service costs through Intel Core 2 processor with vPro technology

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Publisher:
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Google invites developers to play on the Bigtable

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Channel:
Servers
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bigtable,
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Microsoft's cloud has an Azure tinge

Dubbed Windows Azure, it's less a replacement for the operating system that runs on users own PCs than it is an alternative for developers, intended to let them write programs that live inside Microsoft's data centres as opposed to on the servers...

Channel:
Operating Systems
Tags:
os,
microsoft

Gates, open source, Azure and the cloud

Microsoft's cloud has an Azure tinge Sticking with Microsoft it soon broke new ground when it announced its internet-hosted Windows operating system, Azure, in October. Although there was a lot of interest around Windows 7, the successor to Vista...

Amazon spreading its wings in the cloud

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Microsoft puts flesh on Azure's bones with pricing details

Microsoft has revealed more details, including pricing, around one of its most significant forays into cloud computing, the Azure Services Platform (ASP). Microsoft's cloud initiatives don't stop with Azure: the software giant announced yesterday...

PayPal makeover sparks developer charm offensive

Microsoft probably had an easier time choosing PayPal for its payment service than some of the alternatives: Amazon Flexible Payment Services and Google Checkout both come from companies in direct competition with Microsoft's Azure cloud-computing...

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