Advantages of Windows Azure

In Short windows Azure is dedicated OS for Cloud Computing,which can manage web application and services on the internet in Microsoft Data Center. Developer can develop cloud application and host it on windows azure platform.For that you require windows Live ID.You can host it on following link:http://www.microsoft.com/azure/signin.mspx

For Developing cloud application at developer end you need to follow some pre requisite.

Need to install following software for developing cloud application.

Pre-Requisite:

1.Windows Vista SP1 or Windows Server 2008 (32 and 64 both).

2..Net Framework 3.5 SP1.

3.IIS 7.0 with ASP.Net and WCF HTTP Activation.

4.Microsoft SQL Express Server 2005 or 2008

5.Windows Azure SDK.

6.Windows Azure trust level.( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd179369.aspx)

7.VS 2008

 

Advantages of Windows Azure.

Windows Azure is flexible,reliable ,interoperable,secure.Windows Azure provide open standard environment with the support of different protocols, HTTP,REST,SOAP and XML.Also provide live services,.net service,Sql Services, Sharepoint and Dynamics CRM services.Developer can integrate thsese services while developing cloude application.

ü  Scalability by design. Applications and services run in multiple servers and processors which are transparent for us.Automatic Load balancing.We need to provide only number of instances for load balancing.

ü   High availability. 24 x 7 availability.

ü   Security. The platform is thought to be secured and manage different levels of authentication.

ü  Updating. Microsoft is going to manage updates and keep their systems up to date.

ü   Visual Studio Integration. This allows us to work with Visual Studio and have new Project templates, deploy solutions easily, manage configurations, debug (during development phase) etc.In future developer can develop cloud application in non .net languages using same environment.