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Fundamentals: Windows Azure: Clear Enterprise View

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Understanding what Azure is and isn’t can be confusing, but the platform's place in the enterprise is becoming more clear with a more standardized taxonomy and nomenclature.

Azure, Microsoft's cloud infrastructure for Windows developers and Web programmers, is a little more than a year old--and a lot has already changed since the platform's early days. It can be easy to get lost in the many different uses of the terms "Azure" and "fabric," not to mention PaaS and IaaS, but a more standardized taxonomy and nomenclature are making things more clear.


This report aligns Azure with popular enterprise architecture models in order to provide a sense of Azure’s scope and value for enterprise IT.

Table of Contents

    3    Author’s Bio

    4    Executive Summary

    5    Azure: Cutting Through the Fog for a Clear Enterprise View

    5    Azure Components

    5    Figure 1: Windows Azure Platform

    7    Call to Action

    7    Development Logistics

    8    Azure in the Real World

    9    Azure in PaaS Perspective

    9    Azure’s Future

    11  Related Reports

About the Author

Strategy: ERP in 2012 and Beyond

Sreedhar Kajeepeta is Global VP & CTO of Technology Consulting for GBS at CSC. CSC's consulting groups across North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia specialize in cloud computing, social networking for the enterprise, SOA, enterprise transformation, big data, data warehousing and business intelligence/analytics, enterprise mobility, cyber security, and application consulting (Open Source, JEE, and .Net). 

Sreedhar is based in Farmington Hills, MI, and can be reached at skajeepeta@csc.com.

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