Microsoft Azure. Azure (http://
azure.microsoft.com/en-us) entered
the cloud IaaS market in February
2010. It has a large market share
and is a good candidate because of
its market position in other areas.
It offers compute and storage services
similar to those of other IaaS
providers, and it allows full control
and management of virtual machines.
Additionally, Azure’s UI is
easy to use, especially for Windows
administrators. However, because
the Azure offering is newer than
Amazon’s or Rackspace’s, it still has
many features in “preview” mode
and still has networking and security
gaps.