Windows azure:admixer Special Edition, autocosmos.com, IT works, and news360!

These young, innovative companies are growing fast, and they all have ambitions to expand their business to global markets. We have been to every company that has spoken and talked about what leads them to cloud computing, and how they look at other cloud services compared to Windows Azure. Each of them describes a solution that has been built with Windows Azure and has benefited from supporting their products and helping them develop their business.

We were founded in 2009 and now Admixer 2 billion ads per month for 11 million web visitors. The advertising market in Ukraine is now growing by 30% a year. We want to capture business and want to grow internationally. To reach more customers, especially outside of Ukraine, we need an extensible IT infrastructure to improve reliability everywhere. We want to send our IT systems to a non-cloud server and a brief look at Third-party hosting providers, but we still need to have, manage, and monitor these servers. After a comprehensive assessment of Microsoft and Amazon's cloud services, the only solution we feel we can achieve our reliability and scalability requirements is Windows Azure.

We use Windows Azure, SQL Database, Windows Azure table storage, blobs, queues, and Windows Azure Content IBuySpy Receptacle (CDN, The web and job roles of the Windows Content distribution network completely replace our non cloud infrastructure. We offer 30 million ads in just one day. With the help of Windows Azure, we can easily load double. Over the next two years, we expect 10 times times more customers and 1000% per cent growth in revenue. At the same time, we want to increase the availability of 15%, without spending a penny on IT infrastructure or expansion personnel. This will save a total of $500,000 trillion in 3 years.

Martin R.legnoverde,autocosmos.com CEO and CIO (Chief Information Officer):

We initially used two mouse clicks to migrate the brand collaboration news stories to Windows Azure experienced tremendous resistance. Then we decided to host all our editorial content to Windows Azure, and moved Amazon's second-hand car pictures to Windows Azure storage. Now we are using Windows Azure Computing role, SQL database and Windows Azure CDN. By 2013, we expect to support all Windows Azure sites. Our network traffic will increase by 10 times times in a short time, sometimes less than 3 hours. With Windows Azure, we can automatically expand our resources at any time, so that we can add hundreds of users and grow beyond the Latin American business without the need to buy new servers. When we need to update our entire infrastructure, we want to be able to reduce our 50% hosting costs.

Natavudh Pungcharoenpong,it Works CEO:

We have delivered more than 4 million publications to 1.5 million users since the inception of it works in 2010. Our Ookbee application controls 90% of the Thai electronic publishing market. We use Amazon EC2 hosting Ookbee, but Amazon only provides servers and the service is unreliable. We need a cloud service to help us build Ookbee new capabilities and improve the scalability and reliability we need. Using Amazon, we have to manually expand our resources, but the service still fails 3 times a year. Once, a virus caused a disruption of service and could reduce revenue. We know that if we want to expand across Asia or greater, such mistakes would be disastrous. When we turned to Windows Azure, the Microsoft team evaluated our business problems and helped us design a framework to address them. I have never received such support from Amazon.

In May 2012, we started using Windows Azure, Windows Azure Storage, SQL database, Windows Azure Cache, and Windows Azure Cdn Computing resources to support Ookbee. If we want to use media streaming, we will use the Windows Azure Media service. We want to expand Ookbee in the world with Windows Azure, we expect to grow our business 10 times times our revenue 3 times times. We've increased usability to 99.5%, and we estimate it will increase revenue by a few percent-because the customer has a good experience. We have reduced the cost of nearly 30% of our hosting services and we have a great local Microsoft team in Thailand, which has never been in the Amazon.

Roman karachinsky,news360 Ceo;shavkat aynurin,news360 CTO (Chief Technical Officer):

Aynurin: We learn about Windows Azure because we use the Microsoft. NET development tool, which will help us improve the speed of New360 development. We are confident that Windows Azure can provide the reliability necessary for the proper operation of the solution.

Karachinsky: Through the Microsoft BizSpark One project, Mobile Acceleration Week project, and Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone, We created a completely different kind of service-hosted on Windows Azure-to provide highly personalized news for a wide range of mobile devices, desktop devices, all major browsers and operating systems, including Windows 8. With Windows Azure, we have the flexibility to grow and move around the world. If we put an update in the App Store and want 100,000 new users to visit News360, we just have to press the switch and we have the ability to do it in 10 minutes.

Aynurin: In the first year alone, News360 broke through the 1 million user mark in several countries. The reason is that Windows Azure Global Data Center makes it easier to distribute News360 and provide a better user experience in specific areas.