Windows Azure AppFabric

In this final "Azure Lessons Learned" post I chat with Jim Vitek, Director of Ecommerce for Domino’s Pizza. Domino’s is one of the largest ecommerce site out there. In 2009, Domino’s hit over 20 Million online transactions. That is one heck of a lot of pizza! As you can imagine…

In this episode, Damon Squires, principal architect at RDA, discusses with Zhiming Xue where in a typical enterprise solution Microsoft Azure AppFabric -- consisting of the Service Bus and the Access Control Service -- may be used, how on-premise data are communicated with these…

Companies need infrastructure to integrate services for internal enterprise systems, services running at business partners, and systems accessible on the public Internet. And companies need be able to start small and scale rapidly. This is especially important to smaller businesses that cannot…

In this episode of Windows Azure Lessons Learned I chat with Paul Forney, System Architect for Invensys and Aleksey Savateyev, Senior Architect in Microsoft’s Global ISV group working with Invensys.  Invensys is well known for industrial automation and control systems.  They’ve been …

In this geekSpeak webcast, industry guru and author Jon Flanders provides details on the caching feature in the recently released Windows Azure AppFabric. AppFabric is a set of integrated technologies that make it easier to build, scale, and manage Web and composite applications that run on…

Attend this upcoming, free Windows Azure webcast series and learn how Windows Azure AppFabric fits into the Microsoft cloud strategy and see simple demonstrations of both Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control and Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus. Take a look at Windows Azure AppFabric…

StorSimple provides a hybrid storage solution that combines on-premises storage with a scalable, on-demand cloud storage model. StorSimple integrates with several cloud storage providers, including Windows Azure.  Dr. Ian Howells, CMO for StorSimple, talks with Developer Evangelist Wes Yanaga…

Interview with Principal Technical Lead Clemens Vasters and Principal Development Manager Murali Krishnaprasad (MK) regarding the May 2011 CTP release of Windows Azure AppFabric. We discuss new technologies such as Topics, Queues, Subscriptions and how this relates to doing async development in the…

Have you ever tried to handle authentication for a mobile app, regardless of the platform? Every provider has its own protocol, which forces you to write and maintain a lot of different implementations. Writing protocol code on devices might not always be easy, and the fact that web protocols are…

ACS may be a PaaS service, but the programmatic route is not the only way to is heart: there are many situations in which developers, administrators and users interact directly with it. The new release of the Access Control Service features a management portal you can use for managing your access…