Overview of Azure and Cloud Computing

Overview of Azure and Cloud Computing

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  Karthikeyan Anbarasan www.f5debug.Net
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  About Me  MicrosoftMVP in ASP.NET/IIS  Founder of www.F5debug.Net  Author, Blogger, Speaker  Author of the SQL Server Integration Services Step by Step Tutorials free eBook  MCP, MCAD, MCSD, MCTS.  Mindcracker and Dotnetfunda MVP.
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   Cloud Fundamentals  Windows Azure  Windows Azure Architecture  Windows Azure Components  Windows Azure Demo  SQL Azure  SQL Azure Portal  SQL Azure Demo  Q&A
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   Cloud: on-demand, scalable, multi-tenant, self-service compute and storage resources
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   Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): basic compute and storage resources ◦ On-demand servers ◦ Amazon EC2, VMWare vCloud  Platform as a Service (PaaS): cloud application infrastructure ◦ On-demand application-hosting environment ◦ E.g. Google AppEngine, Salesforce.com, Windows Azure  Software as a Service (SaaS): cloud applications ◦ On-demand applications ◦ E.g. Office 365, GMail, Microsoft Office Web Companions
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  Windows Azure Managed for You Standalone IaaS PaaS SaaS Servers Applications Runtimes Database Operating System Virtualization Server Storage Networking
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   The Windows Azure Platform is an Internet-scale cloud computing and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers.  Windows Azure Platform includes the foundation layer of Windows Azure as well as a set of developer services which can be used individually or together.  Provides the best and most comprehensive platform as a service offering for building, deploying and running cloud applications. Ready for Next Leverage Existing Open and Flexible Generation Investments Applications
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   FABRIC • This service STORAGE monitor and manage • This service application stores the data COMPUTE • This service runs the application
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   Web Role Instance ◦ It accepts incoming HTTP and HTTPS Requests ◦ It runs on the VM that includes IIS 7.0 ◦ It can be implemented using ASP.NET, WCF Input Web Roles ASP.Net UI Http/Https Instance Request
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   Worker Role Instance ◦ It does not have IIS Configured. ◦ It is not hosted on IIS. ◦ It functions like a background job ◦ It cannot gets input from outside world directly ◦ It takes batch job and runs indefinately Input from Worker Roles Output to Webrole / Instance Blob, Tables Queue and Queues
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  Desktop Windows Azure  EXE • Service Package  Application Configuration • Service Configuration  Manifest • Service Definition  DLL • Service Role ◦ Windows Forms Library – Web Role ◦ Windows Service – Worker Role  Local Data Stores • Internet Data Stores
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  Building the Application
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   SQL Azure Database is a cloud database service from Microsoft.  SQL Azure provides web-facing database functionality as a utility service.  SQL Azure is a key component of the Microsoft data platform offering flexibility and scalability; reliability and security; and developer agility.  Cloud-based database solutions such as SQL Azure can provide many benefits, including ◦ rapid provisioning ◦ cost-effective scalability ◦ high availability ◦ reduced management overhead.
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  SDS is builton three key pillars 1. Storage for all data types from birth to archival 2. Rich data processing services 3. Operational excellence  Scale free  High Availability  Geo Replication  On-Demand Service  Easy to use
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  Demo on howto use the SQL Azure Management Portal
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   You can contact me for any help @ Karthikeyan@f5debug.net  For Azure quick starts look at www.windowsazure.com