Laurent Duveau : Azure

So what is Windows Azure?

pluginbaby — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:52:19 GMT

Everybody asked me this question last week at TechEd Los Angeles, even at customs before my flight, and at registration, hotel, … (I wore an Azure Tshirt).

Windows Azure is the central piece of the cloud computing offering from Microsoft. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage their web applications in the cloud (Microsoft data centers worldwide). It is part of the Azure Services Platform and acts as a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment.

On top of this base infrastructure, you’ll find several services helping you to build apps for Azure:
Live Services, .NET Services, SQL Services, SharePoint Services, Dynamics CRM Services.

Read more on the Azure Services Platform:
http://www.microsoft.com/azure/whatisazure.mspx

The platform is currently (may 2009) on Tech Preview and should be released at the end of the year.

Pricing will be announced this summer.

Try it!
Go to www.azure.com and log in with your Live ID to create your first solution.

Download the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (which includes the Azure SDK) now and try it for free:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b44c10e8-425c-417f-af10-3d2839a5a362&displaylang=en

Watch some Azure videos:
http://weblogs.asp.net/lduveau/archive/2009/05/07/windows-azure-videos.aspx

Technorati Tags: Windows Azure,cloud

Windows Azure videos

pluginbaby — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:21:05 GMT

Want to learn more on Windows Azure?
Microsoft has a nice “How do I?” videos series:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-ca/azure/dd439432(en-us).aspx

Also available as RSS feed:
http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/msdn/en-us/azure/RedDog-video.xml

There was also several Azure related sessions at MIX09:

Using the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio to Build Cloud Services

Introduction to the Azure Services Platform

Overview of Windows Azure

Building Web Applications with Windows Azure

Windows Azure Storage

Connecting Applications across Networks with Microsoft .NET Services

A Lap around Microsoft .NET Services

What's New in Microsoft SQL Data Services

Simplifying Distributed Access Control with Microsoft .NET Services

Technorati Tags: Windows Azure,.NET Services

Microsoft Expert at TechEd in the Azure Track

pluginbaby — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:05:22 GMT

I have been selected as a Microsoft Expert for the Azure Track at TechEd North America 2009.
Not Silverlight? Anyway, LA, here I come!