Northern Web Hosting and IT Consulting Services Are in The Cloud
Windows Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework.
Secure, anywhere access to email and calendars, Office Web Apps, instant messaging, conferencing, and file sharing. With Office 365, you can get your work done securely and communicate real-time from almost anywhere.
IT Consulting Services relies on Office 365 for back-office IT infrastructure. The Northern Web Hosting website and SQL Server data are hosted in the Windows Azure and SQL Azure cloud.
According to Gartner Research, "By 2012, 80% of Fortune 1000 enterprises will be using some cloud computing services, 20% of businesses will own no IT assets."
When you look at the price point of Office 365 and Azure, you'll find it hard to provide the same level of in-house IT at the same cost.
As a member of the Microsoft Partner Program, IT Consulting Services can develop a cloud computing solution that's right for you.
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Provision the resources you need as you need them. Windows Azure enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any operating system, language or tool.
Web Sites
Start for free and scale as you go
Get started for free and scale up as your traffic grows. Build with ASP.NET, PHP or Node.js and deploy in seconds with FTP, Git or TFS.
.NET Development Open Source Apps
Deploy directly from your source code repository. Simply ‘git push’ from the Git repository of your choice or connect your Team Foundation Service projects and enjoy continuous source integration. Automated deployment has never been so easy.
Media
Ingest, Encode, Protect, Stream
Create, manage and distribute media in the cloud. This PaaS offering provides everything from encoding to content protection to streaming and analytics support.
Media Services CDN Storage
Media Services offer the flexibility, scalability and reliability of a cloud platform to handle high quality media experiences for a global audience.
Virtual Machines
Infrastructure on your terms
Easily deploy and run Windows Server and Linux virtual machines. Migrate applications and infrastructure without changing code.
Windows Virtual Machines Linux Virtual Machines
With Windows Azure you can easily bring your own customized Windows Server or Linux images or select from a gallery. Retain full control of your images and maintain them as your business requires.
Cloud Services
Enterprise-grade cloud platform
Create highly-available, infinitely scalable applications and services using a rich Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment. Support multi-tier scenarios, automated deployments and elastic scale.
Cloud Services SQL Database Service Bus
Never worry about patching, hardware failures, or network issues again. Windows Azure Cloud Services is designed to let you build applications that are continuously available even during system upgrades and hardware failures.
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SQL Azure is a highly available and scalable cloud database service built on SQL Server technologies. With SQL Azure, developers do not have to install, setup or manage any database. High availability and fault tolerance is built-in and no physical administration is required. SQL Azure is a managed service that is operated by Microsoft and has a 99.9% monthly SLA
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This data demo uses the SQL Server Adventureworks sample data stored in Northern Web Hosting's SQL Azure database.
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 SQL Azure is managed using the Windows Azure management portal. Each Azure subscription can contain multiple logical SQL Azure servers. A SQL Azure server is a logical group of databases and acts as a central administrative point for multiple databases. Once your server is created, a read-only master database and a server-level principal login are created automatically.
 In each database, you can create tables, views, indices, stored procedures and other database objects. To enable load balancing and high availability, databases associated with your SQL Azure server reside on multiple physical computers in the same geographic region as your server.
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