What is the Windows Azure™ AppFabric?
Windows Azure AppFabric provides a comprehensive cloud middleware platform for developing, deploying and managing business applications, and extending the familiar way you build Windows Azure apps today. It enables you to bridge your existing applications to the cloud through secure connectivity across network and geographic boundaries and by enabling a consistent composition model for both Windows Azure and Windows Server®. With AppFabric, Microsoft® is delivering services that enable developers to build and manage composite applications more easily for both server and cloud environments. It makes development more productive by providing higher abstraction for building more powerful business applications; and it simplifies management and maintenance of the application as it takes advantage of advances in the underlying hardware and software infrastructure. Today, Windows Azure AppFabric provides secure connectivity capabilities via Service Bus and Access Control for customers that nee
