You’re running out of excuses to not try Microsoft Windows Azure

That’s the title of the article written by James Staten for Forrester Research and it actually nicely summarizes all the features, benefits and directions for Windows Azure. I particularly like the following excerpts as they nicely summarize the holistic view:

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• Where Microsoft is differentiating itself centers around its integration with the on-premises world.
• The company has now integrated Azure with its Team Foundation Server that links teams of Visual Studio developers and applies life-cycle management to a normally chaotic, creative process.
• Microsoft did the same thing for infrastructure & operations managers when it integrated System Center with Azure .
• Microsoft’s acquisition of StorSimple should play a part in this story

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Here is the full article on ZDNet.

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