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Windows 8 is the newest operating which is still under development by Microsoft and is not yet released. There are lot of rumors about the release date of Windows 8 even though Microsoft has not yet officially announced about the release date.
There are many news and rumors in internet about the features that will be available in Windows 8. One such feature that is being widely discussed in the Cloud based Storage for Windows 8 through Windows Azure.
Cloud Computing is a web based processing in which the shared resources, softwares and information will be provided to various computers and other devices like smartphones through internet on demand.
The cloud computing infra structures consists of services which are delivered through common centers and built on servers. The clouds appear as single points of access for consumers's computing requirements.
Cloud computing customers do not own the physical infrastructure. They consume the resources as a service and pay only for the resouces that they use. Most of the cloud computing offerings employ the utility computing models similar to how the traditional utility services like electricity are consumed. Sharing the resources over internet will improve the utliization rate as servers are not unnecessary left idle. This will reduce the cost and increases the cost of aplication development.
We all know the imortance of back up of data. Back up plays an essential part in every computer user's disaster recovery plan. The cloud based back up solutions have gianed the popularity in recent days which is due to faster internet connections and falling online storage costs.
The Windows users at present are depending on third party back up solutions to back up their date. This is the case till Windows 7 operating system.
But Microsoft is planning to change this situation as per the information leaked according to a job posting in their career web page. The job posting confirms that a team is working on Windows Azure based service to integrate it with online services.
Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft datacenters.
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