The movement to the Cloud is a big thing. It’s going to be a shift that we cannot ignore and avoid. This session will show you what Windows Azure is , the different components that it consist of, how to develop or migrate your current application to it and how to position it in your solution. The talk will cover the topic at the level of solution architecture view and touch on the coding aspect at various occassions. We will also briefly compare other popular products that is available at the market and how Windows Azure fits in to the picture.

1. 8 – 10 March 2011 | Dubai, UAE

2. 8 – 10 March 2011 | Dubai, UAE Ronald Widha Everything About Windows Azure that You Were Afraid to Ask SESSION CODE: ASI202

3. 3 Agenda or the Fake Asked Questions (FAQ) What is Azure? What is the Cloud? How does Azure fit in? What’s differentin the cloud? How do I run my existing stuff? What are otherpeople doing?

4. 4 1. What is Azure? Photo by Creative commonsskyseeker

5. 5 is it a Software? Photo by Creative commonskiewic

6. 6 Is it a Shared hosting? Photo by Creative commonsblake

7. 7 2. What is the Cloud? Photo by Creative commons Michael Whitebead

8. 8 Elastic All about Partitioning Photo by Creative commonstveskov

9. 9 Commoditization: Utility model Photo by Creative commonseleda

10. 10 Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

11. 11 Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Photo by Creative commonskiewic

12. 12 Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

13. 13 The spectrum Software-as-a service Platform-as-a Service Infrastructure as-a-Service Abstraction (i.e. Less IT & Less Plumbing Code) Control Photo by Creative commonskiewic

14. 14 3. How does Azure fit in? Photo by MSDN

15. 15 The spectrum Software-as-a service Platform-as-a Service Infrastructure as-a-Service Abstraction (i.e. Less IT & Less Plumbing Code) Control Photo by Creative commonskiewic

16. 16 What is Azurethen? Your app … Web Role SQL Azure Service Bus Caching storage Worker Role Fabric Controllers Virtualization Data centers

17. 17 Web Role Asp.net / php Host IIS

18. 18 Worker Role publicoverridevoid Run() { stringdllHostPath = @"RedistllHostx86.exe"; ProcessStartInfo psi = newProcessStartInfo(dllHostPath); Trace.WriteLine("Starting DllHostx86.exe process", "Information"); using (ProcessdllHost = newProcess()) { dllHost.StartInfo = psi; dllHost.Start(); dllHost.WaitForExit(); } //... while (true) { Thread.Sleep(10000); Trace.WriteLine("Working", "Information"); } } process Host OS Photo by Creative commonskiewic

19. 19 Windows Azure Services Storage Middleware Services Service Bus Access Control Caching Integration Composition Logging, Diagnostic, Health

20. 20 It is (kinda) an App Server!

21. 21 Web/Worker Admin Role

22. 22 A Platf …. frastructure. sort of

23. 23 Let me take you around

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29. 29 We’ve just seen Azure Portal Administration Publishing Scaling up Quick iteration deployment

30. 30 data base ?

31. 31 NoSql? Table Storage Something durable but short lived: Queue Everything else: Blob

32. 32 Something durable but short lived: Queue Msg1 Queue 1 Account Msg2 Queue 2

33. 33 Msg1 Blob1 Account Msg2 Blob 2

34. 34 4. What is differentin the cloud? Photo by Creative commonscliff_robin

35. 35 focus on scalability Keep it separated Application Photo by Creative commonsjpuikkibeach

36. 36 focus on scalability Keep it separated Front End Front End Service Front End Photo by Creative commonsjpuikkibeach

37. 37 focus on scalability Keep it separated Front End Front End Keep it stateless Service Front End Photo by Creative commonsjpuikkibeach

38. 38 focus on scalability Front End Front End Keep it separated Q Keep it stateless Service Front End Keep it parallel Keep it asynchronous / non blocking Photo by Creative commonsjpuikkibeach

39. 39 focus on fault tolerance Keep it robust Photo by Creative commonsbananeman

40. 40 focus on manageability Keep it automated Keep it repeatable Keep it monitored Photo by Creative commonsflyforfun

41. 41 Dev Ops Photo by Creative commonsfighterhayabusa

42. 42 Azure AppFabric

43. 43 Service Bus

44. 44 Caching Photo by Creative commonskiewic

45. 45 5. How do I run existing stuff? Photo by Creative commonsjf-sebastian

46. 46 Compute Roles PaaS IaaS SaaS Admin Web/Worker Role Worker Role VM Role Web Role Abstraction (i.e. Less IT & Less Plumbing Code) Control

47. 47 Compute Roles PaaS IaaS SaaS Admin Web/Worker Role Worker Role VM Role Web Role Abstraction (i.e. Less IT & Less Plumbing Code) Control

48. 48 Just do it: Worker role // InitalisingRunTomcat RunTomcatrunTomcat = newRunTomcat(); // Calling StartTomcat method to start the tomcat process runTomcat.StartTomcat(RoleEnvironment.GetLocalResource("TomcatLocation").RootPath, RoleEnvironment.CurrentRoleInstance.InstanceEndpoints["Tomcat"].IPEndpoint.Port.ToString()); while(true) { Thread.Sleep(10000); Trace.WriteLine("Working", "Information"); } Photo by Creative commonskiewic

49. 49 Compute Roles PaaS IaaS SaaS Admin Web/Worker Role Worker Role VM Role Web Role Abstraction (i.e. Less IT & Less Plumbing Code) Control

50. 50 Configure stuff: Startup Task <WebRolename="foo"> <Startup> <Taskcommandline="relativeathoSetupExecutable" executionContext="limited|elevated" taskType="simple|foreground|background"/> </Startup> </WebRole> Photo by Creative commonskiewic

51. 51 Let me take you around Photo by Creative commonskiewic

52. 52 Compute Roles PaaS IaaS SaaS Admin Web/Worker Role Worker Role VM Role Web Role Abstraction (i.e. Less IT & Less Plumbing Code) Control

53. 53 Dear control freaks,I’ve got you a VM Role Identical/similar deployment instances using common uploaded OS image (base.VHD + diff.VHD) Base.VHD Blob Storage & Additional Software & Windows Azure Integration Components - Agent - Runtime Interface (topo, config, shutdown notification, …) - Remote Desktop configurator - Diagnostics - Windows Azure Drives driver & Generalize (Recommended) Cloud On-Premises

54. 54 Hooking it up: Azure Connect Photo by Creative commonskiewic

55. 55 6. What are other people doing? Photo by Creative commonscdenver

56. 56 Bookshop & the magic bean Photo by Creative commonschiaralily

57. 57 Vroom vroom

58. 58 IT Pros, look away! AppHarbor

59. Price Instances OS license App license 59

60. 60 Summary What is the Cloud? How does Azure fit in? What is it? What’s differentin the cloud? How do I run my existing stuff? What are otherpeople doing?

61. 61 Related Content COS201 - Intro to Azure AppFabric Caching Service at 2pm ARC303 – Ubiquitous communication with the Azure AppFabric Service Bus tomorrow 9am ASI302 – Take a Message tomorrow 11.45am

62. 62 Free 750 hours Photo by Creative commonskiewic

63. 63 Any RealQuestions? Photo by Creative commonskiewic

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