microsoft cloud computing - a deeper dive into windows azure

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Microsoft Cloud Computing: A Deeper Dive Into Windows Azure

Microsoft Business Solution Series

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Global Issues

· Need secure and reliable communication and collaboration solutions for a dispersed or global organization

· Desire more predictable IT costs

· Want the features of the latest platform, but we don’t have the time or resources available to implement them

· Need intuitive systems that are easy-to-use by both standard users and IT support

· Limited, in-demand resources need to be allocated to strategic projects without sacrificing support requirements

· Systems and applications must adhere to regulatory compliance

· To maintain business continuity, disaster recovery & contingency planning is a necessity

· Flexibility to change infrastructure as business requirements evolve

Save Money, Increase Productivity, Grow the Business

Current IT Challenges

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Transformational Era

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The Cloud Models

•Network-based access to, and management of, commercially available software

•Activities managed from central locations

•Typically, one-to-many application delivery

•Centralized feature updating

SaaS

•Includes services to develop, test, deploy, host and maintain applications in the same integrated environment

•Multi-tenant architecture

•Integration between components

•Development and collaboration support

PaaS

•Physical hardware delivering infrastructure as a fully outsourced service

•Typically a virtualized environment

•Accessible via the internet

IaaS

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Platform As A Service

Components Of A

Platform

• Scalable

• Reliable

• Flexible

• Secure

• Service oriented

• Anywhere access

• Interoperability

• Large storage

• High performance

• Easy access

• Enterprise class

• Relational model

• Scalability

• High availability

• Mirroring

• Disaster recovery

• Between services

• Between systems

• Secure

• Standards based

• Easy to use

• Leverage existing knowledge

• Easy to deploy

• Multiple languages

• Interoperability

• Easy deployment

• Easy promotion

• Scalable

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Windows Azure

Windows Azure SQL Azure AppFabric Development Environment & SDK

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Microsoft’s Footprint & Strengths

· Focus on highly secure, private, and reliable computing experiences based on sound business practices

– Geo-redundant data centers

– N+1 architecture

– 9 layers of data security

– Access via Secure Socket Layer (SSL)

– ITIL/MOF operational practices

– 24x7x365 support

– Backed by 99.9% uptime SLA

· Microsoft’s commercial cloud services have more than 40M paid seats

· Deep experience in serving global enterprise customers across a broad software portfolio

· Broad and deep, best-in-class, collaboration capabilities

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Existing Azure Customers

• Needed to perform heavy computations once per week

• Moved datacenters to Windows Azure based on cost, ease of management and available features

• Needed to scale up and down quickly based on demand

• Transitioned system to Windows Azure and SQL Azure to lower infrastructure costs and quickly scale for peak loads

• Built a web-based location-sharing application for GPS-enabled phones

• Moved from Amazon hosting to Windows Azure to take advantage of the superior development environment, services and higher performance

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Windows Azure

· Windows Azure is a Windows based platform for running applications and storing their data in the cloud

· Major Windows Azure Components

– Fabric (hardware)

– Compute (CPU & Memory)

– Storage (file system)

· Although the storage service includestables, these should not be confusedwith relational database tables as thesetables are more like lists of entities

Windows Azure

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SQL Azure

· SQL Azure is a cloud-based database management system

· Although Microsoft plans to more data components, the first component to be released is SQL Azure Databases

· Built on top of Microsoft SQL Server

· Can be used by cloud and on-premiseapplications

· Coming soon

– Data Synchronization

– Reporting

– Analytics

– More …

SQL Azure

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Windows Azure AppFabric

· The Windows Azure AppFabric helps developers connect applications and services in the cloud or on-premise

· Major Windows Azure AppFabric components

– Service Bus

– Access Control

· Designed with interoperability in mind – allservices can be accessed using aRESTfull protocol

Windows Azure

AppFabric

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Interoperability

· The Windows Azure cloud platform has been built from the ground up with interoperability in mind

VS

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Creating and migrating applications

· When choosing to migrate from on-premise to the cloud or to build a new application for the cloud, the following must be considered

– Application Management

– Application Security

– Application Compatibility

– Database Compatibility

· Developers still have toconsider issues likeavailability, scalabilityreliability and security whenmoving to the cloud

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When does Azure make sense?

· Scalable web applications

– Application hosting

– Occasional peak loads

· Parallel processing application

– High performance computing

– Media processing

· Web application with background processes

– Collaborative processes

– Asynchronous applications

· Cloud storage accessible from on-premise or hosted application

– Distributed storage

– Information sharing

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Factors to consider with Windows Azure

Security/Regulation/Audit• Can you really trust someone with your data?

• Proprietary/confidential information• Strategic applications

• Regulated information• PCI, HIPAA, SOX

• Topic is being addressed; so far consensus: cloud is non-compliant

ConcernsConcerns SolutionsSolutions

Connectivity/resources outsourcing risk• Provider committing to always offer appropriate resources• Rely on someone else for your applications• Can you always trust that the bandwidth will be there?

• Can your service have any kind of latencies or interruptions?

• E.g. 911 calling service• Hard to know precisely what the systems are doing in the

cloud

Security/Regulation/Audit• Data centers are highly restricted• Duplicate backups in different data

centers• Restricted use of multicasting• Big firewall restrictions – no IP

spoofing or port scanning in the cloud

Connectivity/resources outsourcing risk• Having multiple data centers in

different parts of the world• Channels designed to deal with

interruption• Cloud providers are improving

monitoring systems

Other Concerns:• Migrating from the cloud to on-premise• How to migrate to another Cloud Computing provider to take

advantage of new services or cost reductions• We do not know if vendors will provide some kind of API

or bus• Will dramatically change the IT workforce

• Servers maintenance will not be necessary

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Content ManagementWindows Azure Demonstration

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Pricing

Windows Azure

· Compute

– Small instance (default): $0.12 per hour

– Medium instance: $0.24 per hour

– Large instance: $0.48 per hour

– Extra large instance: $0.96 per hour

· Storage

– $0.15 per GB stored per month

– $0.01 per 10,000 storage transactions

· Content Delivery Network (CDN)

– $0.15 per GB for data transfers from European and North American locations*

– $0.20 per GB for data transfers from other locations*

– $0.01 per 10,000 transactions

Data Transfers

· North America and Europe regions

– $0.10 per GB in

– $0.15 per GB out

· Asia Pacific Region

– $0.30 per GB in

– $0.45 per GB out

SQL Azure

· Web Edition

– $9.99 per database up to 1GB per month

– $49.95 per database up to 5GB per month**

· Business Edition $99.99 per database up to 10GB per month**





AppFabric

· Access Control

– $1.99 per 100,000 transactions

· Service Bus

– $3.99 per connection on a “pay-as-you-go” basis

– Pack of 5 connections $9.95




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Sample pricing scenario

Costs based on 3 Windows Azure instances, running 24 hours per day, 365 days per year

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Summary & Conclusions

· The Windows Azure platform is a flexible cloud-computing platform that helps developers better focus on solving business problems and addressing customer needs

· Applications that would benefit from flexible and quick scalability, high transaction parallel processing, asynchronous background processing or broadly accessible storage and content delivery may be good candidates for the Windows Azure platform

· No need to invest upfront in expensive infrastructure – pay only for what you use, scale up and down as needed and Microsoft handles all the maintenance in a secure environment with 99.9% uptime

· Although Windows Azure’s competitive pricing may be cost effective for many business technology scenarios, it is not cost effective for smaller applications that would not leverage the core framework services

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What Next?

Resources

– Future Cloud Services Webinars (CRM Online – Fall 2010)

– Free introductory Azure offer from Microsoft

– Blog: http://blogs.credera.com/category/cloud-computing/

– Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure

Contact Us

Jeff [email protected]

Sai [email protected]

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Content ManagementWindows Azure Demonstration

To watch demonstration, please:

1. Pause slideshare presentation2. Click on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKEMuGKdcsE3. When demonstration ends, return to continue

slideshare presentation

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