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Hi,<br />
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I need to clarify some features of Azure. I currently have servers in a private cloud running on VMware. 1 SQL server and several application servers with different applications that all have a database on my sql server. Clients for the applications are deployed via Citrix desktop. I need to move from my private cloud and am exploring options but am not fully clear on Azure. At a high level I think I am correct in saying I can use Azure as IAAS in other words create a VM install SQL 2012 on and build other VMs for my application server and Citrix etc. It seems I also have the option of going PAAS so I spin up an SQL server instance (MS look after the OS and everything underlying) I can then deploy full VM's for the application servers and Citrix. <br />
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Is this correct or am I misreading. Should I be concerned about any elements at the high level design. Thanks
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Hi,

I need to clarify some features of Azure. I currently have servers in a private cloud running on VMware. 1 SQL server and several application servers with different applications that all have a database on my sql server. Clients for the applications are deployed via Citrix desktop. I need to move from my private cloud and am exploring options but am not fully clear on Azure. At a high level I think I am correct in saying I can use Azure as IAAS in other words create a VM install SQL 2012 on and build other VMs for my application server and Citrix etc. It seems I also have the option of going PAAS so I spin up an SQL server instance (MS look after the OS and everything underlying) I can then deploy full VM's for the application servers and Citrix. 

Is this correct or am I misreading. Should I be concerned about any elements at the high level design. Thanks

Azure IAAS and PAAS

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying and managing applications and services through datacenters. It provides both platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) services and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems. Cloud Services is a PaaS environment and can be used to create scalable applications and services; there are specific software development kits (SDKs) provided by Microsoft for Python, Java, Node.js and .NET. Azure also has file and storage services, data management, analytics and DNS services.

Azure

Cloud computing, also known as on-demand computing, is a kind of Internet-based computing where shared resources and information are provided to computers and other devices. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. Cloud computing and storage solutions provide users and enterprises with various capabilities to store and process their data in third-party data centers, relying on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale.