How does Windows Azure™ AppFabric differentiate Microsoft’s cloud computing strategy?
While many cloud platforms promise to help you get to v1.0 of your application quickly (by reducing/removing startup costs on infrastructure), simply putting your existing app into the cloud makes your application no more agile or flexible than it is today. You are still building the application in the same way using the same tools and development techniques. You still have to maintain, update, patch, deploy all of your application components just like you do on-premises. How quickly and rapidly you respond to customer feedback and competitive change – and getting to a next version – is the differentiator that sets you apart from the rest of the pack. Windows Azure AppFabric enables greater agility in responding to change by providing a comprehensive cloud middleware platform that supports the entire IT lifecycle. This begins with enabling rapid development using building-block services and defining end-to-end composite application environment to ease deployment, management and respond
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