I’m a managed hosting provider. What can I do with The Windows Azure Platform?
Today, as a Managed Hosting Provide, your primary focus is providing solutions that combine Windows Server with management services; and you probably aim at customers needing dedicated or virtual dedicated environments. Yet many customers have need of both dedicated and shared hosting for different workloads and business scenarios. The Windows Azure platform provides managed hosting providers an opportunity to expand their business. Two potential scenarios are as follows: • Offer “Pay-as-you-go IT services” that your customers can deploy and run instantly for simple use cases, such as web sites, cloud file servers or simple cloud databases. You can even build out more complex services such as full business continuity services that replicate customer data into the cloud. • Provide self-service hosting of popular open source applications such as portals and wikis that your customers need for their intranets • Offer specialty services that require unique hosting capabilities, without inve
