Get Azure Technology to your organization with Windows Azure Pack

Windows Azure Pack provides enterprise or service providers to reap the benefits of Azure technology running on their own data centers rather than the Microsoft Azure Cloud Services. The Azure services can be deployed to current infrastructure which includes existing IT investments.
It is in fact the same technology developed for Microsoft Datacenters (built on System Center and Windows Servers) neatly packaged to run on customer infrastructure which may be an enterprise or a Service (hosting) Provider. In effect the customer would enjoy the same capabilites that he would on Microsoft Azure Datacenter.

The Windows Azure Pack includes:
Customer Portal
Admin Portal
Customer and Admin Services

Source: The white paper

Windows Azure Pack is available free if you are a customer for Microsoft's Windows Servers and System Center.

Read more on this by downloading the white paper 'Windows Azure Pack White Paper' from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/windows-azure-pack/default.aspx#fbid=CIGjpV6qkDc
Download the datasheet from the same site.

Deixe-nos trabalhar com serviços de nuvem Azure -Azure in Brazil

Microsoft has announced Azure service from Brazil through its Azure South region located in Sao Paulo. It is now available for public preview. With Locally Redundant Storage data can remain in Brazil.

Nature of Locally redundant replication:
With locally redundant replication, storage account data is replicated three times within the same data center. Locally redundant replication is offered at discounted rates.

Note that changing from Locally redundant replication to geo-replication will incur additional costs.

More on Locally Redundant Replication here.
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-manage-storage-account/

According to Microsoft,
"The Azure website has been updated to provide detailed information on service availability and pricing for the new region. Azure Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Storage, SQL Database, Web Sites, and Data Transfers hosted from Brazil South will be offered at a discount during the preview period. "

Brazil joins other countries in hosting the center