Stratton and Cloud Computing Stratton & Associates, Ltd. is an emerging leader cloud computing solutions that allow corporations to operate more efficiently, quickly bring products to market, and rapidly achieve their business objectives. Featured Articles: Cloud Computing Consortium. How Cloud Computing is Changing the World. Cloud Computing Analytics Report Plug into the Cloud Microsoft Taps into the Government Market What Cloud Computing Really Means Cloud Computing. Pie in the Sky? Contact us: engineering@strattonassociates.com Our Services Taking a lead on this exciting new platform, Stratton has committed significant time and resources to become your first choice when selecting a partner to develop solutions for the cloud. Azure in Depth More than just a blog, Azure in Depth is a comprehensive investigation of all things Windows Azure. Skills and Tools The consultants of Stratton & Associates, are knowledgeable on a broad number of platforms, operating systems and application development languages. What is Azure? In Microsoft's words, "The Windows Azure Platform is an Internet-scale cloud computing and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers." While we have grown acustom to Internet-accessible, data-center hosted applications, such solutions are typically not proprietary, line-of-business applications. Common hosted solutions may offer on-line payment services, account management tools or facilitate electronic conferencing or other communications. What is about to change is that it may soon be possible to host business process specific applications in cloud-based computing environments. These environments would be responsible for maintaining and upgrading the computing and storage platforms as well as providing backup, failover and disaster recovery. A cloud-based application provides the ability to scale both the storage capacity and computer processing capability on demand.