Why • Why Windows Azure Platform?

What

• What is Windows Azure?

• What is SQL Azure?

• What is AppFabric?

How • How to deploy your first application on the Cloud?

• Bring your own

machines, connectivity,

software, etc.

• Complete control

• Complete responsibility

• Static capabilities

• Upfront capital costs for

the infrastructure

• Renting machines,

connectivity, software

• Less control

• Fewer responsibilities

• Lower capital costs

• More flexible

• Pay for fixed capacity,

even if idle

• Shared, multi-tenant

infrastructure

• Virtualized & dynamic

• Scalable & available

• Abstracted from the

infrastructure

• Higher-level services

• Pay as you go

On-Premises

Servers Hosted

Servers

Cloud

Platform

VM Image Deployment; Network Programming; VM Allocation

Microsoft Global Datacenters

Replicated Data Store

Service Model Processing; Service Health Model

Storage Abstractions: Blobs, Tables, …

Programming Model

Developer Tools

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Load Balanced Partitions Service Management

Business Analytics

Reporting Data Sync Business Analytics

Reporting Data Sync