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INTRODUCING WINDOWS AZURE

DAVID CHAPPELL OCTOBER 2010

SPONSORED BY MICROSOFT CORPORATION

CONTENTS
An Overview of Windows Azure ............................................................................................................ 2 Compute.................................................................................................................................................. 4 Storage..................................................................................................................................................... 5 Fabric Controller ...................................................................................................................................... 7 Content Delivery Network....................................................................................................................... 8 Connect.................................................................................................................................................... 9 Using Windows Azure: Scenarios ........................................................................................................ 11 Creating a Scalable Web Application..................................................................................................... 11 Creating a Parallel Processing Application............................................................................................. 12 Creating a Scalable Web Application with Background Processing ....................................................... 13 Creating a Web Application withRelational Data ................................................................................. 14 Migrating an On-Premises Web Application with Relational Data ........................................................ 15 Using Cloud Storage from an On-Premises or Hosted Application........................................................ 16 Understanding Windows Azure: A Closer Look.................................................................................... 17 Creating Windows Azure Applications .................................................................................................. 17 Examining the Compute Service ............................................................................................................ 18 Examining the Storage Service.............................................................................................................. 19 Blobs.................................................................................................................................................. 19 Tables................................................................................................................................................ 20 Queues .............................................................................................................................................. 21 Examining the Fabric Controller ............................................................................................................ 23 Looking Ahead.................................................................................................................................... 24 Conclusions ......................................................................................................................................... 24 For Further Reading ............................................................................................................................ 25 About the Author................................................................................................................................ 25

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AN OVERVIEW OF WINDOWS AZURE
Cloud computing is here. Running applications and storing data on machines in an Internet-accessible data center can offer plenty of advantages. Yet wherever they run, applications are built on some kind of platform. For on-premises applications, such as...