Windows Azure: Cloud Computing in Application Services

Posted By: Charles | Oct 27th, 2008 @ 10:23 AM | 72,536 Views | 12 Comments
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 system in the sense that it abstracts away the infrastructure details of the cloud "machine". Steve takes us through the process of deploying web applications and services without having to worry about scaling or management using cloud computing in Windows Azure.

It's always great to chat with Steve. You'll enjoy this classic style C9 interview Wink 

More info on Azure Services, Windows Azure and Cloud Computing:
 
Windows Azure website. 

Cloud Computing Development       

Cloud Computing Applications           

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#Oct 30th, 2008 @ 2:02 AM
Zhe Yang
Zhe Yang
The reason why the current CTP doesn't support XP as a dev environment as well as a workaround to get some partial functionality (development storage but not development fabric) working on XP were discussed in this MSDN forum thread.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazure/thread/ad40d420-9bb6-452d-b84c-9928349ab2db
#Oct 30th, 2008 @ 9:19 PM
mcastilho
mcastilho
There is a nice blog you can follow info on Azure platform



#Nov 19th, 2008 @ 1:21 PM
Jovialn
Jovialn

I understand that Azure and Microsoft Server 2008 are complementary technologies.  Are there plans to help port code for Windows server 2008 to Azure and vice versa.  What will be the issues here and what are the limitations as per current implementation of azure.

The idea being that initially a small company might start out with Azure and rely on its scalability solutions.  Eventually the company might want to move to self hosted servers using Windows Server 2008.  In that case, developers would prefer the transition to be as easy and bug free as possible.  Are such scenarios being considered?

What about providing solutions so that users have a inhouse azure environment e.g. My company decides that we need to maintain the data on our own local servers, then all I need to do is go buy say 20 servers, and then use a framework to create a mini azure environment inhouse.  There will be maybe 2 fabric controllers which keep in sync and ensure that there is no single point of failure and beyond that all the remaining machines are maintained by these controllers just as azure is doing currently in data centers.  Providing such a solution would allow companies to switch between azure in microsoft datacenter and 'mini azure' with their own servers relatively easier.

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