商品描述
Windows Azure is the Microsoft’s cloud platform: a growing collection of complimentary services—compute, storage, data, networking, and app—that help you move faster, do more, and save money. But that’s just scratching the surface. Azure is the only major cloud platform ranked by Gartner as an industry leader for both infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS). This powerful combination of managed and unmanaged services lets you build, deploy, and manage applications any way you like for unmatched productivity. Some cloud providers make you choose between your datacenter and the public cloud. Not Azure. Its enterprise-proven hybrid cloud solutions give you the best of both worlds, expanding your IT options without added complexity. With Azure, data storage, backup, and recovery become more efficient and economical. It’s also easier to build applications that span both on-premises and the cloud. You’ll share the same enterprise-tested platform that powers Skype, Office 365, Bing, and Xbox. Azure offers a 99.95% availability SLA, 24x7 tech support, and round-the-clock service health monitoring. That’s why more than 57% of Fortune 500 companies rely on Azure today. Azure can quickly scale up or down to match demand, so you only pay for what you use. Per-minute billing and a commitment to match competitor prices for popular infrastructure services like compute, storage and bandwidth means you’re always getting unbeatable price for performance. Azure runs on a growing global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters across 13 regions, giving you a wide range of options for running applications and ensuring your customers always get great performance. Azure is the first multinational cloud provider in mainland China and is continuing to expand to new regions around the globe. With Windows Azure is possible: Provision Windows and Linux Virtual Machines and applications in minutes. Use the same virtual machines and management tools in Azure that you use on-premises. Build and deploy a wide variety of modern applications for Android, iOS, and Windows that take full advantage of the cloud—including web, mobile, media and line-of-business solutions. Automatically scale up and down to meet any need. Azure provides managed SQL and NoSQL data services and built-in support for gaining insights from your data. Leverage the full power of SQL Server in the cloud and use HDInsight to build Hadoop clusters to analyze data. Manage user accounts, synchronize with existing on-premises directories, and get single sign on across Azure, Office 365 and hundreds of popular software-as-a-service applications including Salesforce, DocuSign, Google Apps, Box, Dropbox, and more.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
Windows Azure 是微軟的雲端平台：一個不斷增長的互補服務集合——計算、儲存、數據、網絡和應用——幫助您更快地行動、做更多事情並節省成本。但這僅僅是表面。Azure 是唯一一個被 Gartner 評為基礎設施即服務（IaaS）和平台即服務（PaaS）兩者的行業領導者的主要雲端平台。這種受管理和不受管理服務的強大組合讓您可以以任何方式構建、部署和管理應用，實現無與倫比的生產力。
一些雲端提供商讓您在數據中心和公共雲之間做出選擇，但 Azure 不會。其經過企業驗證的混合雲解決方案讓您享受兩者的最佳優勢，擴展您的 IT 選項而不增加複雜性。使用 Azure，數據儲存、備份和恢復變得更加高效和經濟。構建跨越本地和雲端的應用也變得更容易。
您將共享同一個經過企業測試的平台，該平台支持 Skype、Office 365、Bing 和 Xbox。Azure 提供 99.95% 的可用性服務水平協議（SLA）、24x7 的技術支持和全天候的服務健康監控。這就是為什麼今天超過 57% 的《財富》500 強公司依賴 Azure 的原因。
Azure 可以快速擴展或縮減以匹配需求，因此您只需為所使用的部分付費。按分鐘計費以及承諾與競爭對手的價格相匹配，對於計算、儲存和帶寬等熱門基礎設施服務，意味著您始終獲得無與倫比的性價比。
Azure 運行在微軟管理的全球增長數據中心網絡上，遍佈 13 個地區，為您提供廣泛的應用運行選擇，確保您的客戶始終獲得卓越的性能。Azure 是中國大陸首個跨國雲端提供商，並持續擴展到全球新地區。
使用 Windows Azure 是可能的：
在幾分鐘內配置 Windows 和 Linux 虛擬機及應用。使用與本地相同的虛擬機和管理工具在 Azure 中。
構建和部署各種現代應用，適用於 Android、iOS 和 Windows，充分利用雲端的優勢——包括網頁、移動、媒體和業務解決方案。自動擴展以滿足任何需求。
Azure 提供受管理的 SQL 和 NoSQL 數據服務，並內建支持從數據中獲取洞察。利用 SQL Server 在雲端的全部功能，並使用 HDInsight 構建 Hadoop 集群以分析數據。
管理用戶帳戶，與現有的本地目錄同步，並在 Azure、Office 365 及數百個流行的軟體即服務應用（包括 Salesforce、DocuSign、Google Apps、Box、Dropbox 等）中獲得單一登入。
