Formulating successful strategy for cloud development starts with technical and business objectives. This post outlines the problem areas that must address while building your cloud application. Each problem area outlines the challenges and solution as well. Availability – defines proportion of the time your system is functional and working. An available application should consider the...
Windows Azure API Management Features
You build the web API and decided to sell number of API calls like selling the data behind it, another example is you partners may want to integrate your product into their environment.Microsoft making easy way using Azure API management to discover, use and manage easy way to access resources. Azure Web API has got inbuilt Analytics engine. You can create an instance of API management in...
Windows Azure support to SharePoint 2013
Last week Microsoft announced general availability of Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) support for Windows Azure. You can signup here to see what is new in this release? Key Enhancements are made in General Availability like creating a new virtual machine and virtual networks in Windows Azure. This post outlines the steps to create a new SharePoint 2013 virtual machine and setting up a...
Private Cloud IaaS basics
What is IaaS? Infrastructure as a service. How it is different from existing services in Windows Azure like Software as Service and Platform as Service? Saas and PaaS are service models where you can use the capabilities of Cloud computing to deliver services. Many customers adapting IaaS model because they have the capabilities for managing their software but not underlining physical...
Service Bus Fundamentals
What is Service Bus? The Windows Azure Service Bus provides a secured infrastructure for wide-spread communication. It provides the connectivity options for Windows Communication Foundation and other service points. This post explains various tools around Service Bus like the most fundamental is how to create a namespace and how to create entities and how these work through the windows...
Windows Azure New Features
What is Windows Azure? From platform perspective it is Microsoft computing cloud platform. It is designed and enabled to build the applications and scale it robustly. It is flexible to enable you to handle any type work and it acts as platform as service which provides a set of managed scalable services and now it is turned as infrastructures as service which is the ability to host and scale...
Microsoft Codename Cloud Numerics
Microsoft Codename “Cloud Numerics†is a new .NET programming framework which can be used to perform intensive numeric computations on large distributed data sets. If you are some one who works with large data sets, extracting the data and forming and simulating the models then you might need more computing power and memory.
Windows Azure–Security essentials
This post discusses about Security essentials which technical decision maker should know in-order to protect customers applications and data in Windows Azure platform. Instead you building the server racks and datacenters, Cloud takes your traditional data centers from you and run on their premises which greatly reduces the cost and maintenance. Cloud runs as services platform follows the...
Creating Firewall rules using SQL Azure
The firewall feature in Windows Azure portal allows you to store your data securely on cloud which deny all connections by default. The new firewall feature allows you to specify list of IP addresses which can access your SQL Azure Server.You can also programmatically add connections and retrieve information for SQL Azure database. This post discusses about creating the firewall rule using...
Deploying Windows Azure Application Part2
In my previous post I have discussed about creating the service accounts which required to create to deploy the windows azure application. This post discusses the second step which is deploying the application management portal. Windows Azure tools for visual studio allows you to create and deploy the service package to Windows Azure using Visual Studio. Before deploying the application to...