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specific predictable or unpredictable bursts at peak periods, the additional required
computing power is obtained through the cloud. Thus it is not necessary to expand
the infrastructure on-premise. A certain intelligence that discovers such peak times
is Microsoft’s System Center Family (Faltus, 2013).
Figure 23 - Windows Azure
The advantage of Microsoft Azure is that is a component-based system, which
means that a company can use and expand the services when needed. Furthermore
it hast the peculiarity of a Platform-As-A-Service, by including popular .NET services
in the cloud and offering programming, compiling, and execution in the cloud
(
Rakwal, 2012) & (Redkar & Guidici, 2011, pp. 12-14).
Faltus (2013) sees the acceptance of Windows Azure mostly by big enterprises and
IT companies, that benefit from economies of scale. He further notes, that the
potential benefit is derived from the fact, that companies do not have to care about
Source: (Redkar & Guidici, 2011)
