Cloud Expo News: Microsoft Azure as IaaS
The software composition may include operating systems, application platforms, middleware, database servers, enterprise service busses, third-party components and frameworks, and management and monitoring software. With the freedom to choose the application server comes flexibility in choosing the dev tools as well. This kind of flexibility increases the complexity of the IT environment, as customer IT professionals need to maintain the servers as though they are on-premises. The maintenance activities may include patching and upgrades of the OS and the application server, load balancing, failover clustering of database servers, backup and restoration, and any other activities that mitigate the risks of hardware and software failures.
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