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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.

Doug Hauger: Inside the Windows Azure Platform Business Model

Charles — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:16:00 GMT

Meet Doug Hauger, Azure General Manager. Doug owns the business side of the Azure Platform equation. How was the pricing determined? Are there different plans for "garage innovators" versus large enterprise customers? What does it all really mean? Would we be able to finish the converstion in under 15 minutes (hard for me to do, as you know...:))? Of course, the complexity of the Azure business model would determine the time it takes to explain it (and the thinking behind it). Well, as you can see by the length of the interview, apparently the Azure people constructed a pricing model that is greatly simplified compared to some of our other business pricing models from years past. The overall simplicity of the plan is impressive.

Tune in. Meet one of the key minds behind the Azure business model and learn about some of the reasoning used in constructing the official plan:

Windows Azure, SQL Azure and .NET Services will be commercially available at the Professional Developer Conference 2009 and we hope you will continue building on the Community Technology Preview (CTP) at no cost today.

Upon commercial availability we will offer Windows Azure through a consumption-based pricing model, allowing partners and customers to pay only for the services that they consume.

Windows Azure:
Compute @ $0.12 / instance hour
Storage @ $0.15 / GB / month stored
Storage Transactions @ $0.01 / 10K

SQL Azure:
Web Edition – Up to 1 GB relational database @ $9.99 Business Edition – Up to 10 GB relational database @ $99.99

.NET Services:
Messages @ $0.15/100K message operations, including Service Bus messages and Access Control tokens

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.

What is Windows Azure?

Steve Marx — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:39:00 GMT

This hand-drawn video answers the question "What is Windows Azure?" For more information about the video, see my blog post: http://blog.smarx.com/posts/what-is-windows-azure-a-hand-drawn-video

Dynamics Duo: Everybody needs an Identity

Ben Riga — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT

In yesterday’s episode we very briefly touched the identity and authentication part of the demo where, on the self-service site, the attendee registers using Windows Live ID. In this episode we go a lot deeper.

Identity and authentication is hard. Simple, scalable and secure login capabilities require a great deal of experience to build and a great deal of effort to maintain and keep running. Windows Live ID provides you a proven solution for building identity-aware applications and is used today by over 460 million users.

In our case, since we’ve integrated Live ID into the system, we let Microsoft manage all the details related to identity and authentication. Live ID assigns each of our users a token that is specific to our site. That means Microsoft lets us know that the person coming to the site is the same person that registered. That token is unique to our site so that from the perspective of the user their privacy is protected (e.g. they cannot be tracked across multiple web sites). In fact, the token is the only thing the site will see. So even though the user may use an email address and password to login to Live ID the site never sees that unless the user explicitly provides that information (as in our example by typing it into a profile page).

The simplicity of this is just amazing. As a developer I just have to register my site with Windows Live ID and then redirect my users to the Live ID login page whenever I need them to be authenticated. Live ID handles the authentication and then redirects back to a page that I’ve registered. You can even brand the Windows Live ID login page that your users will see so that it will appear as if it is your own login page. Nice!

While Windows Live ID does a great job of helping me as a conference organizer to identify and authenticate my conference attendees, we also need to authenticate the Windows Azure site to the Dynamics CRM site so that they can exchange information. We’re obviously not going to have CRM licenses for all our self-service users (the thousands of conference attendees in this case) so we use a certificate on the Windows Azure site to ensure that only that site has access to the CRM data. Once the certificate is on my Azure site, we use a Live ID service account to handle the authentication between the two servers.

This episode is part of a 5-part series. In this series we’ve tried to explain how you can combine the Microsoft Web Platform with Dynamics CRM to quickly build and deploy self-service solutions. The full set of videos include:

Both Girish and I enjoyed recording this series. We hope you enjoyed them as well. If you have comments or suggestions for other topics, feel free to add comments below or email Girish or me (Ben) directly.

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

John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
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

Twitter: http://twitter.com/SanjayJain369

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

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

This Week on C9: Charles Torre on camera, C9 turns 5, and lots of freebies

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:31:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are joined by special guest Charles Torre! This week we discuss

- Channel 9 turns 5 Years old and Jamie builds some 5-year anniversary wallpapers

- Nic Fillingham’s Flickr photos from the 5-year anniversary cake

- Where Dan, Brian and Charles were five years ago

Developer News
- Download SQL Server 2008 SP1

- Velocity Team - Velocity CTP3 now available(Download)

- Jesse Liberty – VideoWiki Open Silverlight 3 Project

- Jeroen Ritmeijer - Integrating TextGlow (Silverlight Open XML viewer) into Sharepoint

- Yochay Kiriaty – Walkthrough of the Windows 7 Taskbar .NET Sample Library
- Update to free Azure Services Training Kit and Azure Services Management Tools

- Mohammad Khosravi – CodeProject Range Finder app, via Greg Duncan

- Jon Galloway - Troubleshooting an intermittent .NET High CPU problem

- Bill Ramos - SQL Management Studio Tips Part 1 and Part 2

- Adam Kinney – Video demo of Silverlight Spy to Visually Debug Silverlight applications

- SourceGear - DiffMerge available (free)

- RedGate offers Illustrated C# 2008 eBook for free, via Stefano Mapelli

Picks of the week
- Charles's pick of the week: Jonathan Shapiro, creator of EROS and BitC projects, was hired by Microsoft
- Brian’s pick of the week: Correction on features coming in XNA from Michael Klucher

-Dan’s pick of the week: Silverlight-based Future Desktop in Silverlight (blog post, Codeplex project), via Rishi Oberi

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.

Windows Live ID Web Authentication

Dariusz Parys — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:01:00 GMT

In diesem Screencast geht es um die Integration der Windows Live ID in eigene Web Anwendungen. Es wird erklärt welches SDK dafür benötigt wird und die einzelnen Bausteine in der Anwendung gezeigt, die für die Integration zuständig sind.

Freue mich über Feedback,
Dariusz

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.

Ray Ozzie Reflects on Azure

D. Begley — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:43:00 GMT

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie appears on Channel 9 for a quick chat about the complexities of designing and implementing the Azure Services Platform, his key take-aways from PDC2008 and his guiding architectural principles for Azure.

Ray Ozzie: Reflections on Azure

Charles — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:35:00 GMT

Microsoft CSA Ray Ozzie joins us for a quick chat (you can imagine how busy he is...) about the complexities of designing and implementing the Azure Services Platform, his key take-aways from the past two days at PDC and his guiding architectural principles for Azure (for those who know Ray, he is a staunch advocate for simplicity and adherence to protocols that already exist and are widely used).

Niners, at the end of the interview there's a surprise for all of you (especially one of you, but know that Ray is a huge fan of Channel 9 and especially the Niners who make it so special: all of you). Big thanks to Ray for coming on Channel 9 with such short notice and given his crazy PDC schedule!

Enjoy!

David Treadwell: Inside Live Services

Charles — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:53:00 GMT

Vice President of Windows Live David Treadwell explains Azure's Live Services. He whiteboards the architecture of Live Services (love getting VPs to the whiteboard!), discusses what's available in the Azure CTP, what's coming and, finally, why we are doing all of the cloud business in the first place. By the way, can you figure out what the hex means on his shirt?