Microsoft Azure or Windows Azure is Microsoft’s public cloud computing platform. It provides a range of services for storage, analytics and networking.  It is widely considered both an Infrastructure as a Service and a Platform as a Service offering.

The main benefits are cost reduction and business agility.  Microsoft Azure supports your development today and your product visions for tomorrow. It provides support for all languages and frameworks which allows you to build how you want and deploy where you want to.

No. Microsoft Azure supports all open source technologies, so you can use the tools and technologies you prefer. With Azure, you have choices.  It allows you to run virtually any application using your data source, on your device, with your operating system.

Microsoft Azure provides solutions for all types of industries. The cloud services and products are tailored for your industry to help meet your specific needs and drive innovation in technology and cloud infrastructure.

Privacy and Security are built into the Azure platform. Microsoft is committed to the highest levels of standards conformance, trust and transparency.  It uses multi-layered security controls and unique threat intelligence to identify and protect against rapidly growing threats.