Cloud Computing

SqlAzure Migration Wizard[^] is a pretty handy way to do it. You may need to convert your database to SQL 2008 R2 before using it. Jack of all trades ~ Master of none.

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I had a similiar experience. I registered for the trial, set up all the stuff and few days later I was at 90% of the limit in the number of transactions. Thing is, I only did one thing: upload a .txt file to a blob and that's it. Never used the storage from code or from anywhere else for that matter. Luckily because of this I could just delete the whole storage before any charge would apply. Still, something at MS is definetely not working as it should be.

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If you are developing it for your purpose then better test it on your Emulator. It has no more difference than local and server hosting. It is very good for developer testing. It works same on Azure even. If you are developing it for your client better ask him an account. Queries are welcomed! Regards, Deepak.

If an admin would be free, I'll prefer to host the data inside my company. But it's not free. For a big company, I understand that the cost of an administrator is nothing compared to potential loss. In the case of small company, hiring the wrong person can make you die.

To be honest, I dont think that is true because, I have learned web application 3 months before and now I am starting to develop apps on the cloud and if I haven't had a web knowledge, it will be very difficult to work on cloud computing. You need to have at least the basics. Any ways, thank you for your suggestion.

For starters pravin_mun wrote: 1. How to get free cloud space You can try Windows Azure Free Trial Offer . Refer http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/free-trial/[^] pravin_mun wrote: 2. Libraries for the same in C# Download Windows Azure SDK .Refer http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/sdk/[^] pravin_mun wrote: 3. Get started with some samples and implement them with visual studio... Refer this for some sample Web Apps to be deployed using VS http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/tutorials/[^] This is purely from Windows Azure perspective, you can also try out other vendors like Amazon EC2 or GAE Hope this helps!! "Every morning I go through Forbes list of 40 richest people in the world. If my name is not in there, I go to work..!!!"

Well not necessarily, you could code your own framework from the ground up ( X| ). Jk, find a system that you feel comfortable with and work with it. Google's framework and Microsoft's Azure platform are good starts. I think the latest Linux based cloud frameworks are still immature for commercial use. Actually, in all honesty, if you take away the bells and whistles you could build your own framework. The abstraction of the propagation of resources between platforms into a "cloud" is easy enough to code. I'd recommend sticking with a tried and tested system for business and work related development, but the aforementioned could be a fun code project.

OK, this is by no ways a very informed answer and it's not particularly my field... but during the Customer Test Program phase of Microsoft Azure coming into being I created an account and had a play. During that time I could immediately see some obvious applications, and recently when I was looking at actual enterprises that have gone with Azure some were very much along the lines of what had gone through my mind. By the way, why Azure and not some other solution would almost certainly have to do with whether ones's business was already aligned to MS technologies, such as .NET development. Writing apps for Azure is not significantly different to writing any other .NET applications. One application for example was an event ticketing site (if that is the right term.. ticketing of sports events, concerts etc). That specific application has certain aspects that might suggest the cloud as a very cost-effective solution. It is likely idle for much of the time, but could have extreme demands at others... thousands of people trying to snap up concert tickets in a few minutes. To maintain one's own infrastructure to support this application would not be trivial! And it's definitely not something that you plop onto a typical web-hosting site, it would break in a minute flat. But the underlying Azure platform takes care of the scaling of that workload (e.g. creating new VM instances for large volumes of workflows), and the cost is basically "pay for what you use". Your infrastructure cost is, crudely speaking, proportionate to use (and we presume that during that use you are making money). Without getting into it, I was also intrigued by the service bus component of Azure. Again, pretty crude playing, but it seemed relatively easy to host aplications on my machine that were exposing WCF service endpoints on the worldwide web (Azure) to other networks. I could immediately think of some possibilities for "out of the box" apps communicating with other business entities.. perhaps exchanging EDI documents as an example. Of course there would be other ways of doing that, but I could see some definite uses for Azure to (I think) greatly simplify some things. Remember, I am a .NET developer so Azure made sense to me. I doubt that what they offer is really unique, it is MS particular cloud solution. This is just one example, and I have not really defined "what is the cloud?" to which you will get a million different answers. Whether an application is suited to cloud hosting gets down to a lot of factors and

Following are the 10 special reason to use cloud 1: Familiarity of Windows Azure is based on Windows, so you can write applications in the same programming languages you’ve used for Windows apps: Visual Basic, C++, C#, etc. You can also use familiar tools such as Visual Studio, along with ASP.NET and other familiar Windows technologies. This makes it easy for organizations to find developers who already have the skills to create applications for the Azure platform. And because the Azure environment is much like the standard Windows environment, it’s easier to create a cloud version of an existing Windows application. 2: 64-bit Windows VMs Applications running on Azure run in virtual machines, with each instance of the app running in its own VM on the 64-bit Windows Server 2008 operating system. The hypervisor on which they run is designed specifically for the cloud. You don’t have to supply your own VMs or deal with managing and maintaining the OS because apps are developed using Web role instances or worker role instances that run in their own VMs. The apps interoperate with other Azure components through a Windows Azure agent that runs in each VM. With Azure, you can focus on the code and don’t have to worry about the hardware. 3: Azure SDK Microsoft provides the Windows Azure software development kit (SDK), which includes a version of the Azure environment you can run on your own computer. It’s called the Windows Azure Development Fabric, and it includes the Azure agent and storage. You can work locally when developing and debugging an application and then move it to the cloud. You can download the tools for Vista Studio 2008 and 2010, along with the SDK, from Microsoft. 4: Scalability and flexibility Using Azure, you can easily create applications that run reliably and scale from 10 to 10 thousand or even 10 million users — without any additional coding. Azure Storage provides scalable, secure, performance-efficient storage services in the cloud. After you create a Web app, you can specify the number of processors for the application to use. If the application needs to scale up to meet growing demand, it’s easy to change the settings to use more processors. The “pay as you go/pay as you grow” approach lets you bring your new apps to market sooner and respond more quickly to changes in your customers’ needs. 5: Cost benefits and pricing model Taking advantage of resources in the cloud allows you to decrease your costs for building and expanding your on-premises resources. You can

I was having a beer with one of the MS technical reps for cloud computing in SE Asia a couple of months ago, and asked him this exact question. And you are right the primary target is the SME exactly b/c of the security that MS can bring to the service. Apparently they have some extraordinary service agreements designed to reassure SME's their data is safe and remains theirs. He did admit that the big end of town were not prospects and banks won't touch it, they have enough trouble controlling their (our) environment without more vapourware thank you. There you go - 2 replies. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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Sangita I find it disturbing that you feel the need to specify the language here. I get the feeling that you have chosen the language first, and the problem second. This is not a good way to do things; I appreciate that you may well be jazzed up about Java, and fairplay to you but you really need to stop and consider what the problem is that you are trying to sort out first. The first thing that you need to do is to gather your requirements. Work out what you are trying to do; what problem you expect to solve. Talk to people who are doing the task that you are trying to do and find out how they do it. Where possible, you should always try and model your software after the process it is imitating. Finally, good luck. I look forward to you passing your course, and entering the world of professional development. I have CDO, it's OCD with the letters in the right order; just as they ruddy well should be Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx