Windows Azure Pack

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 Windows Azure Pack builds on the power of Windows Server and System Center to deliver an enterprise-class, cost-effective solution for self-service, multi-tenant cloud infrastructure and application services.

Windows Azure Pack brings Windows Azure technologies to the datacenter, addressing a number of key requirements for  service providers and enterprises who want to embrace the service provider
  model for delivering IT services.

Windows Azure and Windows Azure Pack tie into the Microsoft vision for the Cloud OS, a hybrid cloud solution that helps enterprises transform their current infrastructure to deliver agility and cost
effectiveness. Some of the features are as follows

  • Offer consistent Windows Azure self-service management experiences -The Management Portal in Windows Azure Pack enables you to control how you offer IT services to your tenants. Windows Azure Pack offers the following Management portals.
    • The Management Portal for Tenants
    • The Management Portal for Administrators
  • Provide high-density web application hosting. The Web Sites service simplifies the deployment and administration of multi-tenant, high-density website hosting services. App Gallery gives tenants access to popular web applications while the Windows Azure Pack delivers supporting SQL and MySQL database capabilities.
  • Help IT users integrate their application components. The Service Bus service in Windows Azure Pack enables applications to pass messages to each other when a synchronous hand-off is not possible, but the sender needs assurance that the message will reach the recipient eventually.
  • Deliver flexible infrastructure services. The Virtual Machines service of the Windows Azure Pack builds on the Service Provider Foundation (SPF) API provided with System Center 2012 to enable self-service IaaS.

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