AZUG.BE - Azure User Group Belgium - First public meeting

Windows Azure User Group
First Public Meeting04/11/2009

Agenda
What is AZUG? Who is who?
An overview of the Azure platform
.NET Services
Enterprise reasons to adopt the cloud
Getting started with Azure
Open discussion

What is AZUG? Who is who?
Kurt Claeys

Where did it start ?
Collective community drive of ...
Maarten, Yves and myself
Some hints from Microsoft to get this started.
We like Azure ...
We like to talk about it ...

Where are we going ?
Ahead, straight ahead, turning when needed, no stops.
Where to exactly ? ? To be discussed ... feel free to speak and participate.
AZUG is a community effort and will keep being a community effort.
But ... , we need sponsors ... feel free to speak !

Who’s who today ?
Kurt Claeys
MVP Connected Systems Developer
.NET Architect & trainer at ORDINA Belgium + CC leader ‘CloudServices’
Focus : WCF, Azure, .NET Services
www.devitect.net
Maarten Balliauw:
MVP ASP.NET
.NET software engineer at RealDolmenBelgium
Focus : web development, open-source, cloud
blog.maartenballiauw.be
Yves Goeleven
Solution Architect Capgemini Belgium
SIG leader Architecting and Designing solutions for AZURE
Domain Driven Design as meaning of life.
www.goeleven.com

Other names
Gabriele Bozzi (Kaukana)
Patrick Verbruggen (Spikes)
Marc Vanderheyden (Spikes)
Rudi Claes (InfoSupport)
Marco Braakman (InfoSupport)
Bart De Boeck

An overview of the Azure Platform
Maarten Balliauw

What is Cloud Computing ?
What is cloud computing ?
Offering infrastructure, platform and software as a service over the internet to a global market.
Move on-premises management of non functional IT assets to a providor.
Difference from traditional hostings
Sold on demand “pay as you grow”
Elastic scalability
Service is fully managed by the providor
End user centric (IW or developer)
Strong focus on integration (cloud-cloud or cloud-on-premises)

IAAS, PAAS, SAAS ?
infrastructure as a service (hardware)
Servers available in the cloud,
Managed by cloud vendor
platform as a service (developer)
Delivery of a OS for custom, cloud enabled apps
Support for service hosting and interopability
Relational data storage in the cloud
software as a service (end users)
Exchange online
Sharepoint online
Dynamics CRM online

IT as a Service
Private
(On-Premise)
Infrastructure
(as a Service)
Platform
(as a Service)
You manage
Applications
Applications
Applications
You manage
Runtimes
Runtimes
Runtimes
Security & Integration
Managed by vendor
You manage
Databases
Databases
Databases
Servers
Servers
Servers
Managed by vendor
Virtualization
Virtualization
Virtualization
Server HW
Server HW
Server HW
Storage
Storage
Storage
Networking
Networking
Networking

Quincy, WA: Complete, approx 500K sq ft
San Antonio, TX: Complete, approx 475K sq ft
Chicago, IL: Complete, approx 550K sq ft
Dublin, Ireland: Opening Summer 09, approx 570K sq ft
Des Moines, Iowa: Recently announced land purchase

Classic IT Capacity problem.
Allocated IT-capacities
Load Forecast
“Under-supply“ of capacities
“Waste“ of capacities
Fixed cost of IT-capacities
IT CAPACITY
Barrier for
innovations
ActualLoad
TIME

Capacity in a cloud model
Load Forecast
Allocated IT capacities
No “under-supply“
IT CAPACITY
Reduction of “over-supply“
Possible reduction of IT-capacities in case of reduced load
Reduction of initial investments
ActualLoad
TIME

Azure Service Platform
Windows Azure is an Operating System as a Service for the Cloud.

Compute– auto-provisioning 64-bit application containers in Windows Server VMs; supports a wide range of application models
Storage– highly available distributed table, blob, queue, & cache
Languages – .NET 3.5 (C#, VB.NET, etc.), IronRuby, IronPython, PHP, native Win32 code

SQL Azure is a Relational Database for the Cloud.

RDBMS – Tables, Views, Indexes, Stored Procedures, Triggers, ...
Programmability – Managed ADO.NET data access, native ODBC, support for PHP
Tools – SQLCMD and the SQL Azure Database account portal

.NET Services are Network Services for the Cloud.

Service Bus – connectivity to on-premises applications; secure, federated fire-wall friendly Web services messaging intermediary; durable & discoverable queues
Identity Management – rules-driven federated identity; AD federation; claims-based authorization

Live Services is a building block within the Azure Services Platform.

Live Mesh
Live ID
Live Contacts
Live …

Live Services

Windows Azure

SQL Azure

.NET Services Service Bus

Storage in the Cloud
Windows Azure - Overview

Blob
Container
Entities
Account
Table
http://<account>.blob.core.windows.net/<container>
Messages
Windows Azure Storage Concepts
http://<account>.table.core.windows.net/<table>
Queue
http://<account>.queue.core.windows.net/<queue>

Blob Storage
Store sets of binary data
Text files, images, …
Highly Available
Automatically scales to multiple servers and locations
Durable
Data is replicated at least 3 times

Table Storage
Store sets of structured data
Not bound to schema!
Billions of entities (rows) and TBs of data
Automatically scales to thousands of servers as traffic grows
Highly Available
Can always access your data
Durable
Data is replicated at least 3 times

Table Storage Capabilities
What tables don’t do
What tables can do
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Not relational
No Referential Integrity
No Joins
Limited Queries
No Group by
No Aggregations
Transactions (limited)
Very Scalable
Flexible
Durable
Store LOTS of stuff 
Cheap
If these are important to you, use SQL Azure

Queue Service
Store a queue of messages
FIFO
Can be used by multiple worker roles

Windows Azure Summary
Many is better than one
Let Microsoft worry about this
Loose coupling
Web Role and Worker Role
Storage choice
Azure Storage: Simple stores scale
Table, Blob, Queue
SQL Data Services: Full RDBMS
Stored Procedures, Schema, Transactions, Views etc

.NET Services
Kurt CLAEYS

.NET Services
Internet Service Bus
Services registry
Federated Authorization
Full Duplex messages Relay in the cloud
Abstracts connectivity issues
Firewalls, NAT, Load balancers
On-premises – cloud integrations
Create composite applications
WCF as underlaying technology
S0AP
REST

Service Bus Overview

Access Control Service

Pattern : Pub/Sub
Publisher
.NET Servicebus
Multiple Subscribers

Pattern : Public REST service
http://azugbe.servicebus.windows.net/restservice/XXX/YYY
.NET Servicebus
Service

Pattern : Access Control
Unrelayed communication

AccessControlHelper.DemandActionClaim(“TheClaim");
TheClaim

Authentication/Authorization
On premises Scope
I’m alice
Client
Service
Certificates
Here’s my

Password
Certificate
...

AD
or
Users
Passwords
Roles
Authenticate Alice
Is password or certificate correct ?
Authorize Alice
Does Alice belong to the desired role ?
Operation Allowed ?

Federated Authentication
Certificates
?
Cardspaces
Windows Live ID
Client
Authentication
4. I need to prove I’m over 18,
here’s my Authentication
1. I trust this Access Control Service
giving a certificate
Claim
5. OK, here’s the signed claim.
6. Use the service
Claim
2. On what condition am I allowed to use your functionality ?
Service
3. You need to be 18 years old.

.NET Services demos
Pub/Sub
Public REST service
Access Control

Enterpise reasons to adopt the cloud
Yves Goeleven

Definition of cloud (NIST)
On-demandself service
Standardizedaccess
Locationindependant resource pooling
Rapidelasticity
Pay per use

Costreduction
Cost model instead of amortization
Canbewrittenoffimmediatly
Veryinterestingnowadays
Economy of scale
Shouldlowerprices
Economy of failure
canbale out fast
allowsforgreaterrisks

Pricing model
Windows Azure
Compute @ $0.12/hour
Storage @$0.15/GB/Month
StorageTransactions @ $0.01/10K
SQL Azure
1GB @ $9.99/Month
10 GB @ $99.99/Month
.Net Services
Messages @ $0.15/100K
Bandwith
$0.10 IN / $0.15 OUT / GB

CapexAvoidance
Cost
Bad Things
Happen
Large Capital Expenditures
Wasted Money
Forecasted Load
Traditional Infrastructure
Actual Load
The Getting Started Tax
Cloud Computing
Time

Speed to value
Deploymentondemand
Without traditional procurementprocesses
Ordeploymentcycles
Onlyneed internet access
And a credit card

Flexibility
Massivesize
Scale up
when more resources needed
Scale down
whenno more usefor resource
Hybridapproach
canbeused to cover spikes in localcomputingneeds

Greener IT
Highercomputedensity
Optimization of capacityutilization
Leads to higherenergy efficiency
And lower carbon emissions

SEE THE OPPORTUNITIES
Yves Goeleven

Delivering Services
BPaaS
Business Process as a Service
Not a NIST modelbut widely agreed
SaaS
Software as a Service
Hybrid
PaaS
Platform as a Service
IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service

Bpaas & Saas
Manyopportunities to deliver services
Business processes
Software
Enterprise has in-depth and transversalknowledge
Services sector f.e.
But without capitalinvestments
Azure (Platform as a Service)

To a specificmarket segment
Hybrid
Public
Freely available
Community
user group with similar requirements
Private
Single user
Virtual Private

Communityclouds
Some sectors provide uniqueopportunities
To setupcommunityclouds
Sharedbyseveralorganizations
Withshared concerns
E.g. mission, policy, complianceconsiderations

Findingcandidatesforproof of concepts
Howcan I introduce the azure platform?

When is cloud a natural fit?
Applications and processeswithhighlyvariabledemand
Speed of provisioning is constraining business execution
Internal datacenter capacity limits are being reached
Existing hardware has reached end of serviceable life
Enterprise Datacenter no longer provides competitive advantage

Major candidate areas
Computesurges
Enterpriseintegration, partner integration, SaaS
New business ventures, R&D projects
Collaboration services, socialnetworking
Online presence
Mobile services
Quickpromotions

Making the first moves
Flexibility, agility, options, cost-savings
Study
the Cloud paradigm shift
Identify and classify
all systems in the IT landscape. Identify candidates.
Run
low-risk proof of concepts and pilots
Go Production
with a cluster which will deliver good results
Explore and Embrace
the new models and architectures
Develop
a hybrid architecture model and integrate the Cloud
Invest to save
Create a roadmap to modernize legacy landscapes
Risk, barriers to cloud usage, dependence on legacy IT, data center

The lowerleftquadrant
Taking a view across all enterprise applications, classify and groupsystems by two appropriate criteria, such as:

Business Criticality &

Security and privacy rating

Strategic value &

Investment cycle/age
High
X
Low
High
Low

Challengesthatyou must overcome
Security, data privacy
Makingapplicationspubliclyaddressable
Distances and latency
Interfacing and data feeds, data lock-in
Service Level Agreements
Licensing models
Somearchitecturerequirere-working

Getting started with Azure
Maarten Balliauw

What you will need…
Tools
Windows 2008, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (IIS7+)
Visual Studio (or Eclipse if you want to go PHP)
Windows Azure SDK
Use the Web Platform Installer
www.microsoft.com/web
Account
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/account

Open discussion
It’s your turn!

Possible discussion topics
Who has been using Azure?
What do you think about it?
What questions do you have on cloud computing / Azure?
Is your business asking questions? What questions?
What would you like Azug to do / show?

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