Cloud Computing: Windows Azure Platform for Enterprises

Here we examine the typical cloud platform architecture and some common architectural patterns, along with their implementation on the Windows Azure offering from Microsoft.

Joshy Joseph

MSDN Magazine May 2009

Learn how to utilize elasticity-the ability to provision resources and remove them on the fly-to take full advantage of cloud computing.

Josh Twist

MSDN Magazine November 2010

Windows Azure is already helping many companies move their apps into the cloud. We'll share some of the tips and tricks that we discovered working with customers on real-world migrations.

George Huey, Wade Wegner

MSDN Magazine August 2010

It's difficult to troubleshoot any application without a trail of clues to follow, and cloud apps are no different. We look at how logging and tracing are enabled for Windows Azure, and how you can use Windows PowerShell to manage diagnostics for a running service.

Mike Kelly

MSDN Magazine June 2010

You'll find direct support for building Windows Azure applications in Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Web Developer 2010 Express. We'll walk you through using Visual Studio 2010 for the entirety of the Windows Azure application development lifecycle.

Jim Nakashima

MSDN Magazine April 2010

To better understand how SOA patterns can be applied to Windows Azure deployments, we walk you through a scenario in which a bank moves its services to the cloud.

Thomas Erl, Arman Kurtagic, Herbjörn Wilhelmsen

MSDN Magazine January 2010

Yes, you can run background processes in the cloud. Kevin Hoffman and Nate Dudek use a shopping cart example to demonstrate how to build an application engine as well as implement asynchronous messaging and processing using Azure Storage.

Kevin Hoffman, Nathan Dudek

MSDN Magazine January 2010

Many early adopters cloud platforms have questions about security. We review some of the cryptography services and providers in Windows Azure along with some security implications for applications in the cloud.

Jonathan Wiggs

MSDN Magazine January 2010

There are many ways to integrate Windows Azure applications with SharePoint 2010. We'll walk you through one example: a Silverlight-based Web Part that consumes data from the cloud.

Steve Fox

MSDN Magazine November 2010

Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service provides an easy-to-use cache in the cloud that you can employ for application data, maintaining session state, and other tasks. We'll show you how to start using the Cache service in your apps today.

Wade Wegner, Karandeep Anand

MSDN Magazine April 2011