Cloud Computing

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…

Just what is Windows Azure?  Join me in this brief video for an introduction to Windows Azure.  We'll explore its components, the key features, and discuss why you should care. Suggested Additional Content Windows Azure Storage Overview  Related Videos How Do I: Get…

Vice President of Windows Live David Treadwell explains Azure's Live Services. He whiteboards the architecture of Live Services (love getting VPs to the whiteboard!), discusses what's available in the Azure CTP, what's coming and, finally, why we are doing all of the cloud business in the first…

  Mark Russinovich is a Technical Fellow working on the Windows Azure team. His focus is on solving hard problems related to the Fabric Controller, which is in some sense the Windows Azure operating system kernel - it provides services and management infrastructure for the applications that…

Technical Strategist Steve Marx sits down with us to discuss what Windows Azure means for developers. The basic idea is to make it really simple for developers to deploy web applications and services without having to worry about scaling, management. So, Windows Azure is an operating…

A key component of any cloud computing offering is durable storage.  Windows Azure provides 3 forms of durable storage: tables, blobs, and queues.  Join me as we explore the highlights of these 3 important implementations. Related Videos How Do I: Store Blobs in Windows Azure…

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow. In this episode, Steve and Wade: Discuss how to maximize your use of Windows Azure by running multiple websites in a Web Role Take a look at sharing folders between…

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow. In this episode, Steve and Wade cover the recent release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android, along with updates to the Windows Azure Toolkits for Windows Phone…

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show @CloudCoverShow. In this episode, Steve and Wade talk through how to use Windows Azure Table Storage from an ASP.NET MVC 3 application. Steve shows us some tricks for using ASP.NET MVC…

Here is a short walk thru of Windows Azure and the many ways it takes away your infrastructure headaches and lets your focus on the app you want to design, test and deploy at scale.  You will learn of the key building blocks: the AppFabric, storage and the resulting developer…