This article explores the newest major public cloud provider, Azure by Microsoft, and zooms in on the details of their cloud services.
In the realm of enterprise technology, it’s all about cloud computing. Cloud, cloud, cloud – and the forecast is all kinds of cloudy. Cloud technology has been a slow burn in terms of refining, building trust, and becoming as widely adopted, meanwhile redefining the business culture. And with Microsoft recently entering the game, you know Cloud is here to stay. Microsoft Azure joins the competition between providers like Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services in delivering the public cloud services that today’s organizations are seeking. Cloud service vendors, like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, are providing the infrastructure of virtual machines, data management, web applications, and more, so that business can be conducted from anywhere you can connect to the internet, all while being managed by the cloud vendor. This article will discuss Microsoft Azure and particularly, their cloud services and what this offering can mean for those who are considering Cloud business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management (CPM) tools.
Let’s start by defining some things first. Microsoft Azure is the application platform for their public Cloud. Everyone is writing about Cloud these days, but just to clarify, Cloud computing means that you’re utilizing the internet as a platform for housing and accessing your data and applications instead of an on-premises server or hard drive. Azure offers a full catalog of services and is positioned by Microsoft as “a flexible, open, and secure public cloud built for business.” However, we’re going to look more closely at the Cloud Services since, being an end user, you might be confused on how it all works, whether you’re planning to utilize the offering for your own projects – or you’re aware of applications, perhaps even BI or CPM specifically, that are running on Azure.
Azure Cloud Services is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) tool with the space to run scalable customized code. As an example, let’s say you work for an organization that has multiple people getting into a BI or CPM solution, at times simultaneously, that is hosted on Azure. As a software vendor, this is a move forward into the future of technology for on-premises solutions that can now be delivered via a Software as a Service (SaaS) format, with any updates and upgrades rolled out in real time via the platform. Additionally, the consumer only has to pay for their precise product usage because of Cloud pricing.
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