Microsoft Windows Azure: Developing Applications for Highly Available Storage of Cloud Service

Cloud Computing is storing of data and application on remote servers and accessing them via internet rather than installing and saving them on your personal computers. As more publicly available scientific data sets become available, growing volume of this data has made it impractical to move data to desktop for analysis. These issues require a new computing paradigm- Cloud Computing. In recent years, advancement in cloud computing assure us to remove these barriers. Microsoft has huge contribution in the development of data centers for public cloud infrastructure, known as Microsoft Windows Azure, which serves the needs of scientific community. Microsoft Azure provides a variety of cloud service which enables you to select right combination that meet your needs from setting up a community website to document and discuss research findings to perform complex data analysis in scalable environment. The paper deals with a brief introduction about Microsoft Azure, its services, features and developing and deploying application on Azure cloud. It also describes the benefits offered by Azure Cloud Platform by comparing it with other Cloud Service Platform.