Windows Azure Infrastructure Services General Availability

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Everyone here at Microsoft are proud and excited with the announce of the Windows Azure Infrastructure Services General Availability, and maybe you are asking yourself ¿what is it Windows Azure Infrastructure Services?, well Infrastructure Services is the name of the Windows Azure services set of Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks services, the same Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks that you have tested previously with the Preview phase, but adding a new set of high memory VM instances to run memory intensive workloads, the SLAs and price reductions on Virtual Machines and Cloud Services.

Now, this open an entire new set of options and opportunities to you, now you can extend you datacenter to the cloud using Azure Virtual Networks and deploy new services in minutes with Azure Virtual Machines creating hybrid scenarios (ex. to use Azure Infrastructure Services to deploy your ADFS infrastructure to enable federation services for your cloud applications, O365 and more); you can deploy Virtual Machines to extend your apps deployed on Platform as a Service (Web Roles and Worker Roles), you can manage your Virtual Machines with System Center App Controller, you can monitor your Virtual Machines with System Center Operations Manager; the possibilities are huge and the flexibility for your organization is amazing.

Maybe now, if you are planning a new infrastructure deployment, you are thinking if it is a good idea try to deploy that infrastructure or part of that infrastructure on Azure Infrastructure Services, and I recommend you that take a minute to think about it, analyze it, consult it with you team, partner, Microsoft Consulting Services contact, Microsoft contact or with your Technical advisor to compare pros and cons and try it.