In March of this year we launched our Location Hub® 2.0 technology on the Windows® AzureTM platform. Because we wanted a cost-effective solution for our location intelligence web services, hoping to replace the Oracle software that we hosted with a third-party provider. In May 2010, we re-engineered Location Hub to take advantage of .NET Framework 4 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 data management software, especially the spatial capabilities available in SQL Server 2008. Instead of using Oracle databases, and that’s when we made the decision to move our services to the Windows Azure platform, after evaluating several cloud service providers.
Along with our customers we’ve been so impressed with the uptake in performance that we plan to expand our use of the Windows Azure platform. In addition to Location Hub, we intend to move some of its other applications to Windows Azure. DMTI also plans to use Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket to sell our data through new products and services. The benefits are great including reduced costs by two orders of magnitude, improved service performance by up to six times and improved ability to focus on the business.
If you’d like to learn more about our journey to the cloud, please click here to read the full case study.
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