Transcript Developer Day Understanding Windows Azure from A-Z Mario Szpuszta Cloud Architect & Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Corp. [email protected], http://blogs.msdn.com/mszcool.

Developer Day
Understanding
Windows Azure from A-Z
Mario Szpuszta
Cloud Architect & Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Corp.
[email protected], http://blogs.msdn.com/mszcool
Cloud Computing
An approach to computing
Internet-scale
connecting variety of devices
Services-based
Run applications
Provide services
Like a utility
Similar to power
Characteristics
Elastic / dynamic
Scalable
Measured (pay-per-use)
 SDKs and tools for:
 Most released as OSS
 Generally
building blocks
mobile services
Supported Modules + Globals
mssql
mssql.query('select top 1 * from
request
statusupdates', { success: function(results) {
console
console.log(results);
}
push
}
);
tables
statusCodes
web sites
cloud services
virtual machines
summary
http://WindowsAzure.com