Enterprise Class Cloud for the Average Joe

Okay, you just got “slash dotted”. Users are pouring into your site and you need to scale out and fast to handle the increased load. Traffic is coming from all four corners of the globe and sending all the images and videos and other media assets in your site from a single data center in Western Europe to potential new customers in São Paulo, Brazil is going to cause frustration due to network latency across the Atlantic. You aren’t worried because you know that with a few clicks all the new users are experiencing your site in its full glory and are having a great experience. When the rush is over, you simply make a few more clicks to spin down that capacity – or only some of it as you have a new set of customers who believe in you. Windows Azure makes it possible for all PHP developers to use Microsoft’s global network of data centers to put your enterprise hat on – anytime – even if only for a short while.