Windows AzurePrince Sultan University

Mohamed Sharaf

AgendaWhat is Cloud Computing?What is Windows Azure?What is in Windows Azure?What Does The Developer Get?Developing Applications for Windows AzureReferences

What is Cloud Computing?What is a Cloud?

A cloud is a set of connected servers.

This model represents how computers and devices are connected and sharing information, forming the concept of the “cloud”.

Cloud Computing Cont.What is Cloud Computing?

In General: An Internet based computing environment where

you pay only for resources that you use. A set of pooled computing resources delivered over

the Internet. Mainly, instead of data being stored locally on a

hard drive, the data is instead located on a server somewhere off site.

Cloud Computing is the next phase in the evolution of computing

Cloud Computing Cont.But who spans and controls those connected

servers or devices in the cloud

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What is Windows Azure?It is a cloud operating system on which

developers can build using .NET, Java, Ruby on Rails, Python and other languages.

Focus on your application, not the infrastructure.

Actually, Windows Azure helps developers build, host and scale web applications through Microsoft datacenters.

More On Windows Azure?It is designed for utility computing.It provides facilities to:

Write your apps (developer experience)Host your apps (compute)Manage your apps (service management)Store your data (storage)

What is in Windows Azure?spans & controls a set of connected servers:

Abstract execution environment.Shared file system.Resource allocation.Programming environments.

And more: Utility computing:24/7 operation.Pay for what you use.Simpler, transparent administration.

What Does The Developer Get? A rich, familiar developer experience. A powerful service execution environment:

All of the hardware: servers; load balancers; … Virtualized and direct execution.

Automated service management: You define the rules and provide your code. The platform follows the rules: deploys,

monitors, and manages your service. Scalable, available cloud storage

Blobs, tables, queues, …

Developing Applications for Windows Azure No up-front costs for massively scalable computing infrastructure Pay for what you use, when you use it Eliminate utilization concerns Add compute power as business grows or demand spikes No ongoing depreciation and maintenance costs

FAMILIAR DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE

Development: Visual Studio integration, offline cloud simulation

Maintenance: Local debugging, APIs for logging

Management: APIs for configuration management

DESIGNED FOR INTEROPERABILITY

SOAP and REST protocols

XML file formats Commitment to support

Java, PHP, Python and other popular programming languages

PROVEN MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGIES

Visual Studio, ASP.NET, SQL Azure integration

Questions?

ReferencesWindows Azure

”www.microsoft.com/windowsazure”

Azure Services Platform “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Services_Platform”

Azure Services Platform “http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/4/3/e43bb484-3b52-4fa8-a9f9-ec60a32954bc/Azure_Services_Platform.pdf”

Azure in 30 mins “http://lvgmqg.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pSViyaUMSKwWGPl8Dx5ytBE1WIBduwB8pTbJ-T-K-co2E0YdL2veNVMfQb9kVDg8zAhf22sscPLdEr72oFwFfwQ/Azure%20in%2030mins.ppt?download&psid=1”