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Essar deploys Windows Azure cloud platform

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Essar Group, a Mumbai-based multinational conglomerate, has implemented Microsoft’s cloud services platform, Windows Azure, to deliver some of its applications.

Windows Azure allows Essar to obtain the benefits of both public and private cloud computing while reducing the level of IT maintenance required to manage the applications on-premises, said a press release.

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Because it is hosted in Microsoft datacenters, Windows Azure is able to provide developers with on-demand computing and storage, as well as the ability to scale and manage Web applications.

Essar expects that the delivery of its applications through Windows Azure will enable the company to increase profitability and reduce costs by as much as 65 per cent. Because IT staff are also no longer allocating time to infrastructure management, they can devote more time to mission-critical operations.

“With Windows Azure, we don’t have to spend money on hardware and software, and we don’t have to spend time on administrative tasks related to infrastructure,” said JayanthaPrabhu, chief technology officer, Essar Group. “A scalable, well-defined platform gives us much fewer problems to solve and more time to focus on the overall experience of the application.”

In addition to cutting costs, Windows Azure has given Essar the flexibility to scale compute and storage resources up and down as needed. “In fact, we can maintain the high level of scalability needed at a lower total cost of ownership compared with an on-premises solution,” Prabhu concluded.