Izenda was one of the first companies to deploy applications on Azure as part of the Azure incubation week in 2009. At the time, Platform as a Service (PaaS) was the only option. This limited the customers who were willing to have their data and applications on Microsoft cloud to smaller businesses. With the addition of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), you can quickly and easily create virtual machines and give customers direct access if needed for security and compliance reasons. Once this became available, there was no reason not to move everything at Izenda to Microsoft’s cloud. Between IaaS, Skype and SkyDrive, we are running out of legacy on-premise infrastructure.
It makes us wonder if we will even need a server room or data center in 2013.
This article featured on ZDNet summarizes the latest release of Windows Azure and why it has become a serious contender for the top spot in cloud platforms.
