Windows Azure

The Windows Azure platform is a flexible cloud–computing platform that lets you focus on solving business problems and addressing customer needs.


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Keeping all the data on-premise

"The proliferation of storage solutions illustrates how cloud computing is almost unfailingly accompanied by big data. The growth of data, along with the issues posed by the "skinny straw" of limited bandwidth to external clouds, will pose challenges for enterprises as they migrate to cloud applications. One approach to solving this challenge is, of course, keeping all the data on-premise, but that then poses a different set of challenges with respect to capital investment and storage management complexity."


Read more at: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/090310-cloud-computing-vmworld.html?hpg1=bn