Sitecore and Microsoft - An Azure story
Kind reader, perhaps a small introduction might just suit this blogpost perfectly. What exactly is Azure and the cloud as a whole? I know that for most of you readers, the following information is nothing more than a lesson in history and may even very well be within your set of active knowledge. Worst case, you can skip it altogether and jump right into the next paragraph. So, what is Microsoft Azure? Not so long ago, and here and there the following scenario still stands, a typical website or application was hosted on internally hosted machines per company. Big companies tend to have centralized IT departments and data centers to secure and manage their IT infrastructure through meticulously defined processes and monitoring. Smaller companies need to fend for themselves while making due with the tools and budgets available to provide the best server maintenance as possible. And typically, web servers are not exactly put at the top of the priority list. In ...