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CloudCamp London: on Open Spaces Discussion 3: The Microsoft Azure Services Platform
Open Spaces Discussion 3: The Microsoft Azure Services Platform
Nigel Watling & Phil Wainewright discuss the Microsoft Azure Services Platform.
Our goal for the open spaces sessions is to enable and encourage audience participation. We are planning three groups each following different topics. If you have suggestions for discussion topics please email alexis.richardson - at - cohesiveft.com
Review:
Azure is a cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft data centres, which provides an operating system and a set of developer services that can be used individually or together.
In the Community Technology Preview (CTP) version of Windows Azure, developers can create .NET-based software such as ASP.NET applications and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services. To do this, they can use C# and other .NET languages, along with traditional development tools such as Visual Studio 2008.
Key components of the platform include: Service hosting and management, low-level scalable storage, computation and networking; SQL Services for a wide range of database services and reporting; .NET Services which are service-based implementations of familiar .NET Framework concepts such as workflow and access control; Live Services for a consistent way for users to store, share and synchronize documents, photos, files and information across their PCs, phones, PC applications and Web sites; SharePoint Services and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Services for business content, collaboration and rapid solution development in the cloud.
Review by Eren Aykin
The website of the Azure Services Platform can be found here.
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PODCAST OPEN SPACES DISCUSSION 3: THE MICROSOFT AZURE SERVICES PLATFORM
This session took part at the CloudCamp London. You can view the other 3 podcasts here.
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