Introducing Windows Azure

Posted by Marcio Castilho on October 31, 2008

MSDN Channel has released another video with director of Windows Azure team, Manuvir Das, to introduce Microsoft’s new cloud operating system, Windows Azure. He talks about what exactly is Windows Azure, as many people keep asking if it a new OS that his company will be releasing, and he explains that Azure could be thought as an extensions to Windows in the cloud, which provides a highly scalable virtualization fabric for server-side application execution, deployment, automatic management, and simple storage. Windows Azure provides the base infrastructure for services in the cloud.