As per an article published by Forbes, Microsoft Azure is set to capture the IT market by an approx. $ 1,000,000,000,000 which is a whooping $ 10 Trillion before this decade ends! Did you know that, Azure is being used by 95% of the Fortune 500 companies? These are huge numbers. Let's start with understanding what actually is Microsoft Azure.
But what exactly is Microsoft Azure?
Azure is a vast deployment of ready-to-use compute for organizations across the globe. Azure global infrastructure is comprised of 160+ physical data centers, arranged into regions, and linked by one of the largest interconnected networks on the planet.The services offered can be leveraged to build, establish, deploy Infrastructures, Applications, Databases and many more things through Microsoft's own data centers which are deployed across the globe. You can chose a data center based on your region best suitable to you to deploy your services. You can have an ease of mind without having to worry about the capital required for procuring your own servers, secure storage space, up time, backups, BCP, DR and the other nuisances of hosting your own servers/storage. Azure will provide you elasticity which is lacking in traditional IT deployments. Some of the most popular services are Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, File Storage, Blob Storage, Service Fabric, Disk Storage, Azure Cloud-Distribution-Network (CDN), Express Route, Virtual Network and Azure DNS.
Did you know, Microsoft was the first to willingly accept the new international standard for Cloud privacy, ISO 27018.
Now that we have a basic understanding of Azure, lets move ahead. Azure mainly offers three main cloud computing platform services:
- SaaS - Software as a Service
- PaaS - Platform as a Service
- IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service
We will delve into details and how you can leverage these platform services in the next article.
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