The race to the cloud continues gaining pace, and many businesses have already enthusiastically embraced the new opportunities and efficiencies the cloud can bring. But, for those companies with more traditional technology structures and a lack of cloud knowledge or in-house expertise, a move to the cloud can still seem intimidating. Some businesses continue to prop up aging monolithic technologies, rather than risk relinquishing control of database security and availability, and due to concerns over downtime. What is Microsoft Azure? Microsoft Azure is a cloud platform for building, deploying, and managing services and applications, around the globe. It addresses many of the concerns associated with the cloud, offering an ever-expanding set of services to help organizations meet their business challenges, whether they are looking for partial or total cloud-based architecture. You can build on Microsoft’s proven architecture to add cloud ca...