<p>This book provides readers with what they need to know to start working with the new Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines service. The authors provide detailed coverage of the storage mechanisms provided through the Microsoft Datacenters, various types of storage disks, plus networking concepts such as virtual networks, load balancing, health probes, and firewalls. Other topics include web farming on Azure, load balancing, and moving virtual machines from one data center to another to enable disaster recovery. </p><p>The final chapters of the book cover running Oracle on Azure plus the more advanced concepts of bridging the networks and services and a lot more. </p>