Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure

Posted By: Charles | Oct 27th, 2008 @ 10:15 AM | 166,223 Views | 24 Comments
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.
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#Oct 30th, 2008 @ 6:24 PM
Sikosis
Sikosis
Pity the video doesn't play on either IE or Firefox ... and even when I tried to download the MP4 version I get "Error -2048: Couldn't open the file ManuvirDasCloudServices_ch9.mp4 because it is not a file that QuickTime understands" -- also doesn't play with VLC.

Guess there's a problem with this one ...
#Oct 30th, 2008 @ 9:20 PM
mcastilho
mcastilho
There is a nice blog you can follow info on Azure platform


#Nov 3rd, 2008 @ 4:35 PM
Sikosis
Sikosis
I finally got the video to work ... but don't pause it and walk away -- because you can't then restart the video. I had to refresh the page to start the video from scratch again ... *sigh*
#Nov 8th, 2008 @ 10:33 AM
TanzimSaqib
TanzimSaqib
I've just written an article on building applications from scratch for Windows Azure. Hope you will find it useful to get started: http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/aspnet/Building-applications-for-Windows-Azure.aspx


#Nov 8th, 2008 @ 3:41 PM
Cloud Fan
Cloud Fan
Check out the following video for additional details on Windows Azure storage (Blob, Table, Queue) from PDC:
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/

#Dec 4th, 2008 @ 5:44 AM
pwsmietan
pwsmietan

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

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