Entries tagged with azure platform - Channel 9

Hanselminutes on 9 - Guided Tour inside the Windows Azure Cloud with Patrick Yantz

Glucose — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:15:00 GMT

Scott at PDC09 in Los Angeles this week and got a great opportunity to get a guided tour of a piece of the Windows Azure Cloud from Patrick Yantz, a Cloud Architect with Data Center Services. You may think it's a Cloud Container, but it's not!
Join me on this very technical 15 minute deep dive inside the making of the hardware behind the Windows Azure Cloud.

Building on Azure: Siemens

Charles — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:30:00 GMT

Siemens, a Microsoft Partner, is using Azure for a remote service use case. By using Azure, Siemens doesn’t need to create a new IT department to manage clusters all over the world: Azure spins up the instances. This allows Siemens to only worry about computation, and Microsoft addresses the hardware, people, and IT costs. Gerald Kaefer, Siemens Architect, explains...

MSDN Flash Podcast 011 – Steve Marx on Windows Azure

Eric Nelson — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:36:00 GMT

Also known as “that’s where I left my shoe” (you will need to listen to understand that)

This is a bonus edition of the podcast recorded on the 6th of October in London with Steve Marx, Technical Strategist working on Windows Azure.

It starts slow and a little quiet, it needed a few edits (deletes!) as we battled with “what is still not public” but picks up to be a pretty useful look at the improvements we have made to Windows Azure over the last few months with a specific focus on storage.

Topics covered include:

Entity Group Transactions
StorageClient library
Queues
Blobs and Shared Access Signatures/Blob Container Access Policies
Communication between nodes without queues
Logging

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David Chappell in conversation about Windows Azure and the cloud

David Gristwood — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:17:00 GMT

“If I ruled the world”, says David Chappell, “I would make the phrase ‘private cloud’ illegal”. In conversation with David Gristwood, David Chappell, during his recent world tour, discusses Windows Azure, its importance and role in the partner ecosystem, and other cloud players, such as Google, Amazon, Salesforce.com, VMware and more.

Windows Azure and Partner Opportunities

Brian Johnson — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:56:00 GMT

What are the Azure opportunities for Microsoft partners? Mike Werner provides a high level overview of Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing services. Topics covered include basic platform features and functionality, overall benefits, and the common scenarios for using Windows Azure. We will also discuss how the Azure Services Platform applies to the partner business by creating new services-based opportunities across the Microsoft partner and customer ecosystem.

ARCast.TV - The Cloud Part 2, What is Microsoft doing

Bob Familiar — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:57:00 GMT

On 30 – 31 March 2009, at Weston Manor, Oxford UK a group of senior IT architects from across the industry met to consider the coming ‘Cloud’. What it is, what it means for business and the software profession and what has Microsoft been up to in the cloud. This episode is part 2 in the series, what Microsoft is doing in the cloud computing space.

ARCast.TV - The Cloud Part 1, What it means to the user

Bob Familiar — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:32:00 GMT

On 30 – 31 March 2009, at Weston Manor, Oxford UK a group of senior IT architects from across the industry met to consider the coming ‘Cloud’. What it is, what it means for business and the software profession and what has Microsoft been up to in the cloud? This episode is part one of the discussion, what the cloud means to the user.

ARCast.TV - Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell

Bob Familiar — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:22:00 GMT

What's the latest on Windows Azure and Microsoft's cloud platform? David Chappell discusses his perspective on this fast-changing area with Bob Familiar.

Azure Service Platform - Lightning Round at Cloud Camp DC

Brian Johnson — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:21:00 GMT

Scott Zimmerman, Solutions Architect at Microsoft, presents a concise, 5-minute summary of Microsoft's Azure Service Platform during the Lightning Round at Cloud Camp DC Commercial in Reston, VA on June 17, 2009. For more information on Cloud Camp and a link to Scott’s presentation, visit http://blogs.msdn.com/usdevpartners.

Introducing Microsoft Hohm - Save Energy & Money

Nic Fillingham — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:45:00 GMT

Today, Microsoft announced Microsoft Hohm. That's Hohm as in H + OHM, the unit of measurement for electrical impedance.

Microsoft Hohm is a free web based application (running on the Windows Azure platform) that enables consumers to better understand their energy usage by utilizing advanced analytics licensed from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy to provide home owners with personalized energy-saving recommendations.

The beta is now available to all residents in the United States with plans to roll out internationally over the next year and beyond.

Troy Batterberry joined me in the studio to walkthrough Microsoft Hohm and explain how the service can help you reduce your energy consumption, lower your carbon footprint and save some real money.

Sign up & more info: www.microsofthohm.com

A look at Cloud Computing, Azure and Dynamics CRM

John O'Donnell — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:50:00 GMT

In this video Jon White, a CRM Technology Specialist with Microsoft Dynamics CRM talks to us about Cloud Computing, Azure, Dynamics CRM and what it really means for anyone working with Microsoft Dynamics products

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Microsoft Corporation
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2nd CRM Incubation Week Videos: HIPAAMatic

Sanjay Jain — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:42:00 GMT

During 2^nd CRM Incubation Week in Boston, MA, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft’s investments (BizSpark, XRM, Azure) to make them succeed in today’s economy.

In this series, I am pleased to introduce HIPAAMatic, the "Most Innovative Award" winner.

Enjoy the VIDEO starring Shawn Ramirtha, Dhruv Chopra, Vishwa Kapoor, CRM MVP Aaron Elder, and Larry Gregory.

The solution demo starts at time 13:10.

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

Blog: http://Blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain

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2nd CRM Incubation Week Videos: SmartRedPen

Sanjay Jain — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:18:00 GMT

In this series, I am pleased to introduce SmartRedPen.

Enjoy the VIDEO starring Jennifer A. Caulfield, Bolivar M. Vivanco, and Larry Gregory.

The solution demo starts at time 1:23.

Sanjay Jain

ISV Architect Evangelist

Microsoft Corporation

Blog: http://Blogs.msdn.com/SanjayJain

Twitter: http://twitter.com/SanjayJain369

Interview - Aaron Skonnard on Preparing for "The Cloud"

Mike Taulty — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:10:00 GMT

At the recent DevWeek conference in the UK I managed to catch up with Aaron Skonnard of Pluralsight fame who was keynoting the conference with a talk on Cloud Computing and also delivering some sessions on WCF and REST. Here, Aaron talks about how developers can prepare themselves for Cloud Computing.

Interview - Aaron Skonnard on Cloud Computing Timescales

Mike Taulty — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:07:00 GMT

deCast - Building an Azure App Part III: Hosting Web Services and Silverlight

Rob Bagby — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:15:00 GMT

This is part 3 of a multi-part series where Rob Bagby will be building an Azure application from the ground up. The application will be a shopping cart application with a Silverlight Front End. The goal of this application is to illustrate various features of Windows Azure and in coming weeks, portions of .NET Services.
In this screencast (Part 3), Rob will illustrate how to host WCF Services and Silverlight controls. Specifically, Row will build a RESTful service with WCF and consume that service from a Silverlight control that he builds. We will look at SOAP services in a later post. This will be serve as the start to the catalog for our cart. Please reads Rob's Blog Post for great documentation on how to host Services and Silverlight Controls in Windows Azure.

Expert to Expert: Amitabh Srivastava - Windows Azure and Cloud Computing

Charles — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:51:00 GMT

You first learned about Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform at PDC08. Remember that? Yeah. It's been a while since we first unveiled our cloud computing offering. Now that the hysteria has died down, we thought it wise to go learn the details behind and inside Azure. Who better for this next iteration of Expert of Expert than Windows Azure VP Amitabh Srivastava? Exactly.

Amitabh is a computer scientist turned VP. Lucky for us, he chose the Azure project (formerly known as Red Dog) to put his IQ to work. He built a great team including the venerable and mysterious genius David Cutler (what did David build for Azure, anyway? Tune in...). Much brain power followed the trail to Azure clad in red sneakers with distributed visions of cloud computing in their heads. What would they make? How will it evolve?

What is Azure, exactly? Why are we (Microsoft) doing this? What does cloud computing really mean, anyway? Why "Red Dog" for the code name? Is this just hosting? How is Azure different than what, say, Amazon has already been doing for a few years? What's the score here? What's next?

Erik Meijer leads the questioning and Amitabh does a great job explaining things in a readily understandable way. Great stuff!

Enjoy

deCast - Building an Azure App Part II: Azure Table Storage

Rob Bagby — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:09:00 GMT

This is part 2 of a multi-part series where Rob Bagby will be building an Azure application from the ground up. The application will be a shopping cart application with a Silverlight Front End. The goal of this application is to illustrate various features of Windows Azure and in coming weeks, portions of .NET Services.
In this screencast (Part 2), Rob will illustrate how to work with Azure Table Storage. He will start by working with local development storage (the cloud on your box), setting up our Wine table which we will use to store our catalog. He will write the code to insert and fetch data from Table Storage, as well as a simplified ASP.NET version of the wine catalog UI (we will leave Silverlight until part 3). Please reads Rob's Blog Post for great documentation on how to work with Azure Table Storage. Also, if you are interested in a deeper understanding of accessing Azure Table Storage, catch the screencast on channel9!

deCast - Building an Azure App Part I: Setup and Hello World

Rob Bagby — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:18:00 GMT

This is part 1 of a multi-part series where Rob Bagby will be building an Azure application from the ground up. The application will be a shopping cart application with a Silverlight Front End. The goal of this application is to illustrate various features of Windows Azure and in coming weeks, portions of .NET Services. The first few posts will concentrate on Windows Azure, our Cloud Operating System. I will illustrate things like the developer fabric, hosting various pieces of an application in the cloud (web pages, services, Silverlight components), as well as working with Azure Table Storage. From there, we will keep going, adding and updating pieces of the application.
In this screencast (Part I), Rob will illustrate how to get your development environment, as well as a Windows Azure Hosted Services Project set up. He will then build a simple "Hello, World" application, run and debug it locally and finally deploy it to the cloud.
Please reads Rob's Blog Post for great documentation on how to get your environment set up!

deCast - Understanding The Azure Table Storage API

Rob Bagby — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:06:00 GMT

Are you interested in Azure? Have you heard how Azure Table Storage can give you internet scalability and availability? In this session, Rob Bagby will discuss and illustrate the REST API of Azure Table Storage. After watching this session, you should have what you need to know to take advantage of this data platform. Please also feel free to read Rob's blog post on this subject.

ReachLive - The Future of Communications

SkiExtreme — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:02:00 GMT

IntelePeer, a Microsoft partner, has developed the ReachLive application that voice enables web applications. ReachLive combines IntelePeer's AppworX programmatic telecommunications platform with Microsoft's Live Services to provide communications features. The video describes the application, the archtiecture , the power of communications as a service (CaaS), and a demo.

Follow this link to get started with Azure: http://www.microsoft.com/azure/sdk.mspx

Infosys: Data Integration in the Cloud

Charles — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:42:00 GMT

Infosys Technologies Limited has created a data integration hub which is built on top of Azure platform. Principal Architect of Infosys, Jitendra Pal Thethi, demonstrates how the hosting platform of Windows Azure can provide a solution for closer collaboration with your company’s customers and partners.

Infosys has a global footprint with over 50 offices and development centers in India, China, Australia, the Czech Republic, Poland, the UK, Canada and Japan. With over 103,000 employees. Infosys' service offerings span business and technology consulting, application services, systems integration, product engineering, custom software development, maintenance, re-engineering, independent testing and validation services, IT infrastructure services and business process outsourcing.

Check out the Microsoft ISV site for more information about ISVs working with Microsoft.

Live Framework and Always-Available Social Applications

Jared Bienz — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:35:00 GMT

The Live Framework is a set of libraries and services for building connected applications that can reach millions of users. Live Mesh is a set of services for synchronizing user and application data between multiple devices and multiple people.

This screencast provides an introduction to these frameworks and demonstrates how they can be used to develop Always-Available social applications.

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geekSpeak recording - REST and the Windows Azure Services Platform with Adnan Masood

Brian Johnson — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:12:00 GMT

Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet.

In this geekSpeak webcast, Adnan Masood illustrates how to create and host services in the cloud. Adnan highlights key features of the platform software development kit (SDK), addresses how to implement RESTful interfaces (available remotely and from the data center), and describes how to run Microsoft ASP.NET Web applications or Microsoft .NET code in the cloud.

The geekSpeak webcast series brings you industry experts in a "talk-radio" format hosted by developer evangelists from Microsoft. These experts share their knowledge and experience about a particular developer technology and are ready to answer your questions in real time during the webcast. Your hosts for this geekSpeak are Lynn Langit and Lindsay Rutter. To ask a question in advance of the live webcast, or for post-show resources, be sure to visit the geekSpeak blog.

ARCast.TV - Mickey Williams and David Pallmann of Neudesic on the Impact of Cloud Computing

Bob Familiar — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:39:00 GMT

Mark Hindsbo from Microsoft interviews Mickey Williams and David Pallmann of Neudesic. They discuss the impact of Cloud Computing as it relates to the application developer, the enterprise, and the impact on consulting organizations.