Publisher's Synopsis
Windows Azure Virtual Machines is Microsoft's new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering. With this release Microsoft introduces functionality that allows full control and management of virtual machines along with extensive virtual networking capabilities.
The market needs a book like this due to the pervasive confusion around what the "cloud" is, what Windows Azure offers and how IaaS differs from PaaS. This book will serve to demystify these topics giving readers a clear understanding of what it is, how it works, how it can benefit them as well as practical examples and use cases.
Main topics will include:
- What is the cloud? How does it work?
- What are the different types of cloud and when you would use them?
- What is Azure - what are its key differentiators (from other cloud and IaaS offerings)?
- Practical Examples (when would you use Windows Azure Virtual Machines?)
- Deployment scenarios and instructions/walk-throughs
- Automating deployments (examples and scripts)
