Microsoft Azure Has A Leading Software Development Edge Over Other Cloud Platforms

Online, June 16, 2010 (Newswire.com) - The recent announcements of Microsoft for making its cloud computing platform Azure available for software development worldwide has definitely generated a buzz. Now the Azure platform will be available to the eager developers in countries like India and Australia. Moreover, as usual, the Microsoft product will have a leading edge over the other cloud development platforms.

Primarily targeted for the .net developers Microsoft will be offering SQL and Windows Server in the Azure cloud platform. This will not only encourage the native .Net developers but also guide the developers working on other web development technologies such as PHP and Ruby to develop for the .Net architecture. This is the reason that Azure becomes the ideal platform for all the web developers irrespective of their programming platforms.

Microsoft Azure will hold a significant advantage over the other cloud computing platforms by an inclusion of an engine that enables the replica of the cloud architecture to run on the local machine. Hence the developers can now run the cloud applications on their localhost through Azure platform and test their software on a simulated environment. Once their applications are ready to deploy they can be simply published onto the cloud. Software development was never so simpler before Microsoft Azure.

This means a lot of advantages are in store of the developers to be reaped. Even the non-enterprise software development enthusiasts will be able to work with the full fledged cloud through reduced bandwidth consumption, meaning less cost when compared to other platforms. This is the very source of all the buzz and excitement that has caught the software development fraternity. Until now the cloud computing was only for those lucky enterprise developers who had the luxury of large bandwidths and high-speed Internet connection. But now that the Microsoft Azure platform bridges this void, the cloud computing model is open to all software developers.

As the enterprises will always be in need for some local resources, the future will some see mixed software development environments and technologies to run their businesses competently. Surely Microsoft has positioned its cloud platform - Azure as the best cloud computing platform for developers of all technologies.