Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/432301_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure Manuvir Das, Director in the Windows Azure team introduces us to Microsoft's new cloud operating system, Windows Azure. Is Windows Azure a new OS from Microsoft? Well, sort of, but not in a strict sense (e.g., Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008). That said, one could say that Windows Azure extends Windows to the cloud. That is, Windows Azure provides a highly scalable virtualization fabric for server-side application execution, deployment, automatic management, and simple storage. Windows Azure provides the base infrastructure for services in the cloud. Tune in! Check out the Windows Azure website. and Manuvir's A Lap Around Windows Azure breakout session from PDC 2008. en Sat, 25 May 2013 11:22:52 GMT Sat, 25 May 2013 11:22:52 GMT Rev9 Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure Your video is in some way better than the PDC keynote. Manuvir explains Azure better (less marketing blabla).

This is similar to Amazon's EC2. And it looks very intresting. I'm looking forward to find out how small organisation can use this.

posted by Horst0815

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607257530000000 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:35:53 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607257530000000 Horst0815 Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure Steve Marx interview.

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posted by Charles

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607300260000000 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:47:06 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607300260000000 Charles Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure

posted by Dan

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607317420000000 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:15:42 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607317420000000 Dan Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure
If not just how much or what sections of it are not managed?


posted by vesuvius

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607340460000000 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:54:06 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607340460000000 vesuvius Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure It makes the programmable web a reality. let's start to get developer to write more and more reusable components on it.

posted by Eric Lin

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607341560000000 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:55:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607341560000000 Eric Lin Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure
ive got a question though, its been posted elsewhere but i havent gotten a clear awnser.

i know that all the services and stuff in the ctp is hosted by microsoft. that is cool and all but my managers wont feel save putting allthe company data in the hands of someone else, they want to have it running on our server (or server cluster)

will i, at some point in azures future, be able to install it on my cluster? to have my own little cloud on a bunch on machines that i control? (putting aside the agument wether this is "the point" or not, for my company and many others, esp. oss  buffs, thats a deal breaker)

posted by aL_

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607474940000000 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:38:14 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607474940000000 aL_ Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure posted by staceyw

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607522290000000 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:57:09 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607522290000000 staceyw Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure In my opinion the standout statement in that video went something like this, forgive me ill be paraphrasing  a bit... "... Azure will do for the cloud what windows did for the desktop ..."

So true.. well done to everyone that was involved in this project!

posted by LiquidBoy

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607541590000000 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:29:19 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607541590000000 LiquidBoy Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure I really like how microsoft is setting up this Azure enviroment, where every application is compleatly scallable, and protected from any kind of hardware errors.  What I would like to see though is an extention of the "developer" version of azure (the one used by visual studio), so that we can take azure applications, and run them on our machines using our bandwith.  It would be a more "advanced" version as it requires a bit more provisioning, but it would all compleatly scallability from one single computer (like the developer version of azure that already exists), to an intranet behind a company firewall, and then out on the web hosted by someone like microsoft. 

There are several reasons for this "corporate" version of azure.  I know that you guys pay tons of money for your hardware and bandwith, and that cost will have to be passed on to us companies creating these services, while I can get much cheaper hardware and bandwith if i dont care as much about 24/7 service (not to mention all the support staff that you guys must have for this).  The second reason is that not all data can be stored out on the cloud.  Especialy very sensative data (credit card #'s, social security #'s, medical records, etc), where it just cant (for reasons of regulations or buiesness reasons) be hosted by someone else.

I dont care if azure takes over all the machines (ie no other OS running), and I would expect to pay a per machine (or cpu/core) cost (as well as a per machine cost for each of the machines that can use the extra services like sql services).  But having a uniform way of provisioning a group of 10-100 servers, along with automatic duplication and failover on my own servers would be really nice.

posted by cdwatkins

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607549170000000 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:41:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607549170000000 cdwatkins Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure Who else could host Windows Azure".

And the microsoft employee say: "With the CTP release, services deployed to Windows Azure run on Microsoft datacenters only."

And as far as I know non of the competitors (amazon, google, ibm, ...) sell there software. But then, it's a CTP Wink


posted by Horst0815

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607595630000000 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:59:23 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607595630000000 Horst0815 Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure posted by Dark_Halmut

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607695840000000 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:46:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607695840000000 Dark_Halmut Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure im just wondering if will always be like that or if i'll be able to install a azure os of a bunch of computers and make my own cloud some time in the future

alot of buisnesses already have big datacenters and arent to keen on just abandoning those Smiley also, not everyone is willing to share computin power with others Smiley
maybe i have a bunch of super fast rigs and i want my cloud to only consist of those Smiley

i really hope microsoft will release azure as something you can install on your own machines Smiley imo they'd be foolish not to Smiley
(again, im talking about this ctp but the general future of azure)

posted by aL_

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607920770000000 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:01:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607920770000000 aL_ Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure also, off topic but still,
the c9 reply button doesnt work for me, it just sends me back to the first page of the thread :/

posted by aL_

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607921510000000 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:02:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633607921510000000 aL_ Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure http://developershelf.blogspot.com/2008/10/pdc-2008-day-1.html

Good to see you think of simplicity from a devleoper's perspective.

posted by rg

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633608185400000000 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:22:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633608185400000000 rg Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure
Can't understand why a "platform independent" solution has this barrier...on the dev side at that?

sigh...

posted by EdSF

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633608409180000000 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:35:18 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633608409180000000 EdSF Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure

posted by Carlo

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633609057160000000 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:35:16 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633609057160000000 Carlo Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure Thank you very much Manuvir. You explained the architecture of this technology in detail and very clearly.

I am very much excited on this technology. I had registered in www.azure.com and I have installed azure SDK to work on some sample (ASP.NET Hello world sample) but whenever I try to create host service none of the services are availble there. I noticed the below message.

Register for Services*
*Due to pre-release CTP status, you may be temporarilyplaced on a waiting list for certain services.

Also I noticed that, under the "Account" section in the site, I need to put Resource Token ID and need to claim the token. But I haven't recieved any email with that information.

Any body know how I can get host services to work on some samples ?

posted by sowmyan

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633609530860000000 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:44:46 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633609530860000000 sowmyan Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazure/threads/ if you get stuck or have questions. Thanks!

posted by WAMan

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633609893510000000 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:49:11 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633609893510000000 WAMan Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure
Guess there's a problem with this one ...

posted by Sikosis

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633610130750000000 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:24:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633610130750000000 Sikosis Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure There is a nice blog you can follow info on Azure platform

http://www.azurejournal.com/">http://www.azurejournal.com

posted by mcastilho

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633610236490000000 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:20:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633610236490000000 mcastilho Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure

posted by Sikosis

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633613557180000000 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:35:18 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633613557180000000 Sikosis Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/aspnet/Building-applications-for-Windows-Azure.aspx


posted by TanzimSaqib

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633617660160000000 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:33:36 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633617660160000000 TanzimSaqib Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/ES04/

And for detailed information about Windows Azure compute, check out the following video from PDC:

http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/ES02/

posted by Cloud Fan

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633617844810000000 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:41:21 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633617844810000000 Cloud Fan Re: Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure As a former Microsoftee it's terrific to see MSFT come up with a technology that will help developers in a huge (central) way.  Manuvir's explanation has reeled me in!

Paul Smietan

posted by pwsmietan

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633639950830000000 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:44:43 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Manuvir-Das-Introducing-Windows-Azure#c633639950830000000 pwsmietan