Microsoft makes Windows Azure available for Users

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

 

Microsoft(NASDAQ:MSFT) has announced general availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure Services as well as Windows Azure Virtual Networks which will enable customers to move existing apps to the cloud to save time and money. 

These services will also help customers to meet the changing business needs by providing on-demand, scalable infrastructure along with the extension of data centers and workloads into the cloud. The availability of these infrastructure services will help extend data into cloud Virtual Machines as a robust infrastructure for Microsoft SQL Server software. They will also allow customers to integrate full-trust code to run rich apps and provide Internet-facing collaboration sites.

Microsoft has made some changes and reduction in price for Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Cloud Services such as their general availability has been reduced by 21% for standard instances. Linux Virtual Machines prices have been reduced by 25 per cent for small, medium, large, and extra-large instances. Windows Azure Virtual Network pricing of $0.05 per hour will become effective from June 1, 2013. Until June 1, customers will be able to use Windows Azure Virtual Network free of charge.

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