The document discusses cloud computing and the Windows Azure platform. It provides an overview of cloud models including infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). It also describes key Windows Azure platform services such as compute, storage, SQL Azure database and content delivery network. Case studies are presented that demonstrate how companies have leveraged the Windows Azure platform to improve scalability, availability and reduce costs.

1. To the cloudNigel WatsonPlatform Strategy Advisor – Microsoft Australia

2. Business trends are reshaping technologybusiness has transformed in deeper ways…While the global economy has faced gloom and doom…creating shifts in technology.Economic trendsCuts in operating costs and capital expenditures

3. Increased competition for fewer dollars

4. Do more with lessBusiness trendsFocus on core value-add activities

5. Improve agility to stay competitive

6. Leverage existing assets to expand Technology trendsShift from information technology to business technology

7. Technology erases infrastructure complexity

8. GlobalizationWhat is cloud computing?

9. What is cloud computing?ScalableElastic (on-demand)Self ServiceMultitenant (Shared)Metered by use

10. Industry Cloud Models(On-Premises)Platform(as a Service)Software(as a Service)Infrastructure(as a Service)You manageApplicationsApplicationsApplicationsApplicationsYou manageDataDataDataDataRuntimeRuntimeRuntimeRuntimeManaged by vendorMiddlewareMiddlewareMiddlewareMiddlewareYou manageManaged by vendorO/SO/SO/SO/SManaged by vendorVirtualizationVirtualizationVirtualizationVirtualizationServersServersServersServersStorageStorageStorageStorageNetworkingNetworkingNetworkingNetworking

11. Freedom to chooseChoose between on-premises, hosting, or the cloud based on your needs.

12. The Windows Azure PlatformDeveloper ExperienceUse existing skills and tools.

13. The Windows Azure PlatformDeveloper ExperienceUse existing skills and tools.

14. Windows Azure automates the management of your IT resourcesService Management is performed by the Fabric Controller, which controls all the resources within the data centre. The Fabric Controller deploys your service and monitors the overall health of the fabric.Security and Control State-of-the-art physical security processes combined with strictly controlled OS access model. Data is replicated in multiple fault domains in location selected by the customer. Virtualised Computation provides massive application scalability. Customers can build a combination of web and worker roles. Those roles can be replicated as needed to scale the applications and computational processing power.Storage Services allow customers to scale to store large amounts of data – in any format – for any length of time, only paying for what they use or store.State-of-the-art data centres located around the world. Host your applications and data securely, accessible from everywhere you allow.

15. Windows Azure ComputeVM ROLERuns a customer-supplied OS image

16. Allows execution of custom applications and services

17. Available from 2011WEB ROLEInteracts with end-user or web services

18. Communicate with worker roles directly or via queues WORKER ROLEInitiates their own requests for data or tasks from the queue

19. Similar to a "batch job” or Windows service

20. Build services and solutions with any combination of Web, Worker and VM Roles

21. Communicate via HTTP/HTTPS, TCP/IP, and ports other than 80 and 443

22. Develop with Microsoft and non-Microsoft tools: ASP.NET, WCF, other .NET tools, Java, Python, Ruby, etc.My Casting Net

26. MyCastingNet“We load tested the site with 10,000 hits in 3 mins and it returned a page 100% of the time with barely any change in the response time.” - Hayden Kerr, MyCastingNetEnterprise Grade SecuritySolution subject to intense scrutiny from potential adopters: passed with flying coloursby leveraging enterprise class security of the Azure cloud Massive ScaleLoad testing shows the site can leverage Azure scale to accommodate 10000 hits/3 minutes, over 6.5 times the workload that swamped an equivalent on-premise solutionReliability/AvailabilityBuilt in – no need to build DR

27. 99.93% uptime since deploymentWindows Azure StorageWindows Azure storage is an application managed by the Fabric Controller

28. Windows Azure applications can use native storage, MySQL within a VM, or SQL Azure

29. Application state is kept in storage services, so worker roles can replicate as needed

30. Blobs can be stored in global Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN)Windows azure blob – StorageStore of Large files (Movies, Music, Pictures, etc.) along with Metadata

31. Block Blob

32. Targeted at streaming workloads

33. Each blob consists of a sequence of blocks [up to 4MB per block]

34. Up to 200GB per blob

35. Page Blob

36. Targeted at random read/write workloads at the page level

37. Each blob consists of an array of pages

38. Up to 1TB per blob

39. Standard Operations

40. Put, Get, Delete, Copy, Snapshot, LeaseWindows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN)North America Region Europe Region Asia Pacific Region Dublin, IELondon, GBStockholm, SEAmsterdam, NLChicago, ILSeattle, WANewark, NJSeoul, KRBay Area, CALos Angeles, CAParis, FRZurich, CHAshburn, VAVienna, ATMiami, FLTokyo, JPSan Antonio, TXHong Kong, HKSingapore, SGTaipei, TWNSão Paulo, BRSydney, AUOver 2 terabits per second of capacity is available at 99.95% availability from our 22 global locations. CDN service scales automatically without user intervention