Posted By: Ryan Dunn | Jul 31st, 2009 @ 10:18 AM | 56,017 Views | 6 Comments
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.

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AdityaH
AdityaH
Adityah@Microsoft

This is a kool video. It cleared a lot of questions I had for CLOUD COMPUTING....Thanks...

shoully
shoully
shoully

Thanks ,

U  cleared to us ,

Windows Azure will bring more functionality to Web applications,

and enable businesses to more quickly deploy and update services at a lower cost.

I hope that mobile phones developers their. the presence is important

I'm a fan of Cloud Computing Smiley

Hi

Windows Azure brings more functionality to the Cloud, I hope Microsoft makes a good mix with Microsoft ADFS in Windows 2008R2 so you can federate with Microsoft Azure platform with your own forest.
Any Time, any place with every device.
I hope Azure become also available at Live@Edu for Education in the Netherlands.
Great vision of Microsoft !
Greetings, James

Shanester
Shanester
Autobot

Clicking the Full Screen button causes the video to crash.

 

I'm using Internet Explorer 8.

 

Shane.

Worldlifesite
Worldlifesite
I'm alive. That's good.

Thank you.  The intro does give a quick overview of what Azure is but, it doesn't tell me why choose it over using a regular web hosting account like one at any web hoster for Windows IIS7 with .NET. 

 

Why choose Azure over a web hosting account that offers Windows IIS 7 for .NET 3.5, with Silverlight 3, 2x200MB MSSQL, 25 MySQLs, 500MB disk storage, 1 Tera bandwidth per month for $7 USD.  Why would I switch to Azure?  For $7 per month for a new unproven web application my web host offers much and for $15 I get unlimited MSSQL @ 200mb each, unlimited storage and bandwith,  redundancy and daly backups.  How is Azure better?

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