Software developer Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) has partnered with cloud application services provider Iron.io. Per the deal, Iron.io will now allow IronWorker as an Application Service on Microsoft’s cloud computing platform Azure.
What is IronWorker?
IronWorker is a multi-language application development platform facilitates the working of modern applications in the cloud by effectively dividing code packages and dependencies of tasks to be processed on demand. It works as an important infrastructure component that provides developers direct access to highly scalable event-driven computing services and the flexibility to run any task in the background concurrently at huge scale.
IronWorker also allows developers to create scalable distributed cloud architectures from the beginning and turn custom client-server applications into cloud-based microservices. It also allows custom client-server applications to serve as a mobile compute cloud, or integrate highly parallel workload processing into their applications without any difficult arrangement, operating cost, and maintenance.
Benefits of the Alliance
The partnership will help Microsoft to improve its efforts to increase cross-platform penetration. By using Ironworker’s multi-language support, companies can shift individual components to the cloud and maintain safe and secure application environments at the same time. The collaboration will also help Microsoft to strengthen its corporate customer base.
Simultaneously, IronWorker can act as a key processing gateway for Azure component services including storage, queues, mobile services, and others, thereby making it simple to generate hybrid solutions of existing client-server applications and cloud-based microservices.
Availability
Iron.io, founded in 2010, is a San Francisco-based private company, which is popular for providing cloud application services. It is an application infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider. Its offerings help in building distributed cloud applications and operating at scale across multiple platforms and clouds.
IronWorker is currently available to Azure users in Western U.S.A and can be added as a service by visiting the Marketplace. Ironworker at present supports multiple languages including Go, Java, Ruby, PHP, Python, Node.js, and .NET.
Conclusion
Microsoft is leaving no stone unturned to implement CEO Nadella’s cloud-first mobile-first strategy. Competition in the cloud computing market is intense however, particularly since it includes players like Amazon (AMZN), which is strongly entrenched and Google (GOOGL), which is a challenger determined to build a position.
The cloud computing market, according to Gartner, is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 62% to $160 billion from 2012 to 2015. We believe that the latest efforts will help Microsoft as it pursues opportunities in the ever-growing cloud computing segment.
Microsoft currently holds a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). A better-ranked stock in the same sector is Advent Software, Inc. (ADVS), which currently sports a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).
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