Cloud Computing using Microsoft Azure for Dummies
Microsoft Azure is one of the first On-Demand Cloud Services available since several years, along with Amazon . So what is this Cloud Computing ? “Cloud computing, also known as 'on-demand computing', is a kind of Internet-based computing, where shared resources, data and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand” [ Wikipedia ] Since a few years, and especially thanks to the worldwide Globalization , the amount of data exchanged over the Internet has been growing exponentially, bringing into the game some new paradigm such as Big Data , which challenged the existing hardware and infrastructure at every level. Most public exposed systems and websites had suddenly to deal with a huge amount of traffic, data and requests, from any part of the world, with potential peaks at any given time, 24/7. This represented a big challenge for the stability and availability of systems, which for most businesses required an incredib