What are the benefits to customers in leveraging these improved capabilities to Windows Azure™ AppFabric?
This extends the familiar way you build Windows Azure apps today, and makes development more productive by providing higher abstraction for building applications. By pre-building common middleware services and delivering a rich visual composition environment, this lets developers turn their ideas more quickly into applications and also allows rapid evolution and maintenance of the application over time to respond to customer needs. It also simplifies for ITPros the deployment management and maintenance of the end-to-end application, by eliminating many of the manual steps needed by developers and ITPros today (e.g. deployment application components across environments and tiers, configuration of entire application and individual components and services, control, monitoring, troubleshooting, etc. Finally, it also enables you to bridge your existing applications to the cloud through secure connectivity to LOB systems across network/geographic boundaries, and by enabling a consistent deve
