Nowadays, cloud computing becomes a buzz word in the information technology arena. The businesses are showing their interest in cloud computing with a more positive approach towards it. At present, large number of businesses are running their business critical services with cloud computing. The windows azure, from Microsoft, has made cloud computing more attractive with a 90 days free trial offer. Really, 90 days.
What is meant by cloud computing
Cloud computing refers to the performing or processing computing services and / or related tasks on the internet, online. The receiver of cloud services (services by cloud computing) gets his / her computer related tasks done or processed on a computer server that is available on the internet. That computer server, on the internet, is maintained by the service provider of cloud computing. The receiver of cloud services here does not need to own any computing resources other than a device or computer that can browse websites on internet. Different types of computing facilities (data storage, data processing, email hosting, business accounting services, payroll services etc) are provided by cloud service providers in exchange of service charge.
Windows azure provides cloud hosting services. This cloud hosting services can be used by the software developers. You can get Windows Azure FREE for 90 days
Cloud hosting services with zero cost
as a promotional offer. The services provided under this promotional offer include, 750 small computing hours per month, database with SQL reporting, 35 GB of storage with 5 million transactions, 128 MB of cache. Ti also provides encoding services for media for both input and output data. Up to 50 GB total. Moreover, unlimited inbound data transfer and 25 GB outbound data transfer are available. You can run as much a as 10 sites under this package. All these services come with no obligation & totally free. This cloud platform is independent of OS and programming languages. Try it today and experiences the superb quality.
