What are the key benefits of the Windows Azure platform?
Customers and partners who adopt the Windows Azure platform derive the following benefits: • Agility: Partners and customers can take advantage of development tools, automated service management and global datacenter presence to respond faster to customer needs, focus on their competitive differentiators, and reach new markets. • Efficiency: The Windows Azure platform improves productivity and increases operational efficiency by lowering upfront capital costs. Customers and partners can realize a reduction in Total Cost of Operations of some workloads by up to 30 – 40% over a 3 year period. The consumption based pricing, packages and discounts for partners lower the barrier to entry for cloud services adoption and ensure predictable IT spend. • Focus: Partners and customers can focus on delivering services and value to their customers – and not on managing technology infrastructure. The Windows Azure platform enables partners and customers to spend less time on operational hurdles and
Customers and partners who adopt the Windows Azure platform derive the following benefits: • Agility: Familiar development tools and an underlying infrastructure that’s managed by Microsoft enable you to respond faster to customer needs, focus on your competitive differentiators, and reach new markets. • Efficiency: Microsoft operates the Windows Azure platform at internet-scale and benefits from the related economies of scale that it then passes on to customers and partners. You can realize a reduction in Total Cost of Operations of some workloads by up to 30 – 40% over a 3 year period. • Focus: Customers and partners can focus on delivering services and value to their customers – and not on managing technology infrastructure. The Windows Azure platform enables you to spend less time on operational hurdles and more time focusing on your competitive differentiators. • Simplicity: Partners and customers don’t have to worry about procuring, configuring, deploying, managing and scaling se
