Brief intro about Windows Azure and How and when to use Blobs.

2.  Windows azure is a microsoft platform for
cloud computing.Used to build a web
application that runs and stores its data in
Microsoft datacentres.

3.  Web Sites
 Virtual Machines:
 Cloud Services:
 Data Management

4.  Its a PaaS(Platform as a Service), provided for
deploying web sites developed using any
language or several open source applications.

5.  Its a IaaS(Infrastructure as a Service), provided
complete control over the hosting setup from
setting up of IIS server.

6.  Its a PaaS, provided for developing infinitely
scalable applications.

7.  SQL Database
 Tables
 Blobs

8.  BLOB stands for “Binary Large OBject”. It is a
collection of binary information. It can be
used for storing large amount of
unstructured data which can be accessed
from anywhere

9.  Storing Images to access in your web
application directly.
 Storing documents /files for distributed
access.
 Storing Videos and Audios files.
http://<storage account>.blob.core.windows.net/<container>/<blob>.