1. Chandana N. Athauda,
Microsoft MVP
Email : chandana@yeschandana.com
Blog : http://www.yeschandana.com
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2.  What is Cloud?
 Why Cloud Architectures?
 Business Benefits of Cloud Architectures.
 Examples of Cloud Architectures.
 What Should The Cloud OS Provide?
 What Is Windows Azure?
 Deploy to Staging and Production.
 Current Cloud Computing Market.
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3.  Cloud computing is a style of computing in which
dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are
provided as a service over the Internet. Users need not have
knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology
infrastructure quot;in the cloudquot; that supports them.
 A set of connected servers
 On which developers can:
 Install and run services
 Store and retrieve data
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4.  Cloud Architectures address key difficulties surrounding
large-scale data processing. In traditional data processing it
is difficult to get as many machines as an application needs.
 It is difficult to get the machines when one needs them.
 It is difficult to distribute and coordinate a large-scale job
on different machines, run processes on them, and provision
another machine to recover if one machine fails.
 Cont..
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5.  It is difficult to auto scale up and down based on dynamic
workloads. It is difficult to get the machines when one
needs them.
 It is difficult to get rid of all those machines when the job is
done.
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6.  Almost zero upfront infrastructure investment.
 Just-in-time Infrastructure.
 More efficient resource utilization.
 Usage-based costing.
 Potential for shrinking the processing time.
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7.  Processing Pipelines
 Document processing pipelines
 Image processing pipelines
 Video transcoding pipelines
 Indexing – create an index of web crawl data
 Data mining
 Batch Processing Systems
 Back-office applications
 Log analysis
 Nightly builds
 Cont…
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8.  Websites
 Websites that “sleep” at night and auto-scale during the
day.
 Instant Websites – websites for conferences or events
(FIFA 2009, Super Bowl, T20 World Cup)
 Promotion websites
 “Seasonal Websites” - websites that only run during the
tax season or the holiday season (New Year or Christmas)
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9. The same facilities that a desktop OS provides, but on a set
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of connected servers:
Abstract execution environment
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Shared file system

Resource allocation

Programming environments

And more: Utility computing
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24/7 operation

Pay for what you use

Simpler, transparent administration
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10. It is an operating system for the cloud
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It is designed for utility computing
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It has four primary features:
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Service management

Compute

Storage

Developer experience
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13. Think data-center somewhere on the internet.
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Allows you to run your applications.
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Allows you to read and write data.
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14. Microsoft’s “cloud”

Every cloud has an Azure lining?
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Custom version of Windows

Optimized for utility computing applications

Always runs virtualized on the Azure Fabric

Azure Fabric

Runs instances of your apps

Handles “everything”

Azure Storage

Azure SDK for Visual Studio
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15. Install Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.
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Install IIS7 with ASP.NET/CGI.
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Install Visual Studio 2008 with SP1.
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SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (or above).

Enable WCF HTTP activation via Service Manager.

(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd179419.aspx)
Install Hotfix: Improve Visual Studio Stability.

(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2f692251-2b48-4839-
90fb-fb707381cb24&displaylang=en )
Cont…
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16. Install KB967631: Update for Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Debugger.
(http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB967631/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2
385 )
Install Hotfix: Support for FastCGI on the Development

Fabric.( Windows6.0-KB963676-x86.msu = Vista )
(https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?Downlo
adID=16827&wa=wsignin1.0 )
Install Windows Azure Software Development Kit (March

2009 CTP).
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b44c10e8-425c-417f-
)
af10-3d2839a5a362&displaylang=en
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17. Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio March 2009
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CTP. (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=59e8fc0c-c399-
4ab7-8a93-882d8e74b67a&displaylang=en )
Open Visual Studio 2008: New –> Project –> Cloud Services –

> Web Cloud Service
Write Hello World code in the Default.aspx

Publishing Service Project / Deploying /Uploading to the

Windows Azure clouds.
Hit RUN
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18. Write it in Visual Studio
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New project types

Debug your code

.NET, ASP.NET, WCF, IIS7, LINQ

Azure Storage

Database in the cloud

Desktop development versions of

Azure Fabric

Azure Storage
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19. Amazon : Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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EC2, SimpleDB, C3, CloudFront, etc

Google AppEngine

Microsoft Azure

SlaesForce (CRM on Cloud – SaaS)

GoGrid
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VMWare
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20. Microsoft Windows Azure White Papers
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Amazon AWS Cloud Architecture White Paper
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