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Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

By : Amit Malik
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Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

By: Amit Malik

Overview of this book

Windows Azure Pack is an on-premises cloud solution by Microsoft, which can be leveraged by Organizations and Services providers for building an enterprise class cloud solution. WAP provides consistent experience to Microsoft Azure, along with capabilities such as multi-tenancy, high density, self-service, automated. WAP can be leveraged to provide both IaaS & PaaS Offerings to internal and external customers. In this book, we will learn about planning and deployment of Cloud Fabric for Windows Azure Pack, Azure Pack components, VM Clouds and IaaS offerings, PaaS Offering including WebSites & Service Bus, DBaaS offerings, Automation with SMA, and extending capabilities with third party products integration and tenant experience for all services.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Overview and capabilities of the WebSites cloud


The WebSites cloud in Windows Azure Pack enables organizations and service providers to offer high-density web hosting services to their internal or external tenants. The WAP Websites cloud provides a platform to tenants to develop and run their websites.

WAP websites are designed to provide services at a web scale, hosting thousands of websites with flexibilities and capabilities in terms of scalability, granular control, and metering. The WebSites cloud platform is made up by combining capabilities and features of Windows server, IIS, SQL database, and many third-party and open source technologies.

WAP websites capabilities from the service provider's point of view

Windows Azure Pack websites provide a similar experience to that of Microsoft Azure's website, which is one of the largest website hosting service providers. The Websites service works on a distributed architecture that offers scalability and eliminates any single point of failure...