The system provides a platform for continuous network improvement through the application of new and enhanced software development.

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The Azure Marketplace can now vend commercial applications meaning that any software application built for Windows (using the VMrole) or through Visual Studio (using the worker role) theoretically can be offered through Windows Azure as well.

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Those bits will be generated by application software designed and managed from the EDS acquisition, and hopefully travel through routers from the 3Com acquisition, in data centers managed by software HP built and acquired.

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Most of the operators have at least a dozen different software platforms in the market, which slows down the application environment shift through cost and complexity.

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That makes it possible to see which blade servers are available for use, automatically provision them to an application, and add or remove blades as needed, without going through the operating system or any other intermediary software.

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