Infosys Shows the Real Applications of Azure
You’ve probably heard the buzz from Microsoft about Software Plus Services and Azure. To me, that means delivering the right software to a customer, at the right time, on the end point of the customer’s choosing. With this model, the possibilities of delivering great experiences to customers are many. Infosys Technologies Limited built a solution for use by their customers, enabling communications between services and applications, including mobile applications.
Building highly scalable services which allow for communication between many trading partners solves an IT problem which has been with us for some time. Through the use of .NET Services, Infosys has created a communications layer between applications and services that exists independent of the communicating services, and which handles the connection persistence and management. From an IT point of view, this reduces the headaches of configuration of firewalls and connections on an application and trading partner specific basis.
Another feature on which Infosys was keen to capitalize, was the ability to extend an on-premise application into the cloud. They had existing software that they didn’t want to have to significantly re-factor. Instead, they wanted to build new services in the cloud and make those services available to their existing applications, which would be running inside of their own security domain. The development for Azure is based on .NET, which means that Infosys was able to take their existing skills and start developing their cloud services immediately.
In this video, Principal Architect of Infosys, Jitendra Pal Thethi shares his thoughts on “why Azure,” as well as some of their experiences with the Azure code-base thus far, which should be helpful to developers investigating how to deploy applications against Azure.
Watch this demo, check out my blog, follow me on twitter, and definitely try Azure.
Regards,
Brandon Watson
Director, Azure Services Platform
