1. Karthikeyan Anbarasan
www.f5debug.Net

2. About Me
 Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET/IIS
 Founder of www.F5debug.Net
 Author, Blogger, Speaker
 Author of the SQL Server Integration Services
Step by Step Tutorials free eBook
 MCP, MCAD, MCSD, MCTS.
 Mindcracker and Dotnetfunda MVP.

3.  Cloud Fundamentals
 Windows Azure
 Windows Azure Architecture
 Windows Azure Components
 Windows Azure Demo
 SQL Azure
 SQL Azure Portal
 SQL Azure Demo
 Q&A

4.  Cloud: on-demand, scalable, multi-tenant,
self-service compute and storage resources

5.  Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): basic compute
and storage resources
◦ On-demand servers
◦ Amazon EC2, VMWare vCloud
 Platform as a Service (PaaS): cloud application
infrastructure
◦ On-demand application-hosting environment
◦ E.g. Google AppEngine, Salesforce.com, Windows Azure
 Software as a Service (SaaS): cloud applications
◦ On-demand applications
◦ E.g. Office 365, GMail, Microsoft Office Web Companions

6. Windows Azure
Managed for You Standalone IaaS PaaS SaaS
Servers
Applications
Runtimes
Database
Operating System
Virtualization
Server
Storage
Networking

7.  The Windows Azure Platform is an Internet-scale
cloud computing and services platform hosted in
Microsoft data centers.
 Windows Azure Platform includes the foundation
layer of Windows Azure as well as a set of developer
services which can be used individually or together.
 Provides the best and most comprehensive platform
as a service offering for building, deploying and
running cloud applications.
Ready for Next
Leverage Existing
Open and Flexible Generation
Investments
Applications

8. 

9. 
FABRIC
• This service
STORAGE monitor and
manage
• This service
application
stores the data
COMPUTE
• This service
runs the
application

10.  Web Role Instance
◦ It accepts incoming HTTP and HTTPS Requests
◦ It runs on the VM that includes IIS 7.0
◦ It can be implemented using ASP.NET, WCF
Input Web Roles ASP.Net UI
Http/Https Instance
Request

11.  Worker Role Instance
◦ It does not have IIS Configured.
◦ It is not hosted on IIS.
◦ It functions like a background job
◦ It cannot gets input from outside world directly
◦ It takes batch job and runs indefinately
Input from
Worker Roles Output to
Webrole /
Instance Blob, Tables
Queue
and Queues

12. Desktop Windows Azure
 EXE • Service Package
 Application
Configuration • Service Configuration
 Manifest • Service Definition
 DLL • Service Role
◦ Windows Forms Library
– Web Role
◦ Windows Service
– Worker Role
 Local Data Stores
• Internet Data Stores

13. Building the Application

15.  SQL Azure Database is a cloud database service from
Microsoft.
 SQL Azure provides web-facing database
functionality as a utility service.
 SQL Azure is a key component of the Microsoft data
platform offering flexibility and scalability; reliability
and security; and developer agility.
 Cloud-based database solutions such as SQL Azure
can provide many benefits, including
◦ rapid provisioning
◦ cost-effective scalability
◦ high availability
◦ reduced management overhead.

16. SDS is built on three key pillars
1. Storage for all data types from birth
to archival
2. Rich data processing services
3. Operational excellence
 Scale free
 High Availability
 Geo Replication
 On-Demand Service
 Easy to use

17. Demo on how to use the SQL Azure
Management Portal

18.  You can contact me for any help @
Karthikeyan@f5debug.net
 For Azure quick starts look at
www.windowsazure.com