[2016-02-10] Coindesk:Why Microsoft Wants Every Blockchain on its Azure Platform

[sirohige]

While Microsoft tested the waters with bitcoin at the tail end of 2014, the tech giant appears poised to be a far bigger player in the burgeoning market for solutions that harness its underlying blockchain technology.

Since opening its Azure cloud computing platform to the ecosystem this October, Microsoft has added a steady stream of partners to its blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) solution – a product styled as a kind of 'sandbox' where partners can interact with different technologies, from smart contracts to blockchain-based tax reporting services, in a low-risk environment.

http://www.coindesk.com/microsoft-blockchain-azure-marley-gray/

[Kprawn]

If you sandbox your virtual servers on their cloud, could you harness their servers for the mining side of things? I have not figured that part out as yet,

but I guess it's possible  I guess Crypto currency development can benefit from this, if you can trust the security and the privacy side of these

services. It could also serve as a great tool for disaster recover.