Azure fundamentals Part 1

Editor's Notes

• #7: Speaking Points: There are numerous terms and definitions floating around in the industry for “the cloud”, “cloud computing”, “cloud services”, etc. Microsoft thinks of the cloud as simply an approach to computing that enables applications to be delivered at scale for a variety of workloads and client devices. The cloud can help deliver IT as a standardized service…freeing you up to focus on your business
• #8: Speaking Points: There are numerous terms and definitions floating around in the industry for “the cloud”, “cloud computing”, “cloud services”, etc. Microsoft thinks of the cloud as simply an approach to computing that enables applications to be delivered at scale for a variety of workloads and client devices. The cloud can help deliver IT as a standardized service…freeing you up to focus on your business
• #9: Speaking Points: There are numerous terms and definitions floating around in the industry for “the cloud”, “cloud computing”, “cloud services”, etc. Microsoft thinks of the cloud as simply an approach to computing that enables applications to be delivered at scale for a variety of workloads and client devices. The cloud can help deliver IT as a standardized service…freeing you up to focus on your business
• #10: Speaking Points: There are numerous terms and definitions floating around in the industry for “the cloud”, “cloud computing”, “cloud services”, etc. Microsoft thinks of the cloud as simply an approach to computing that enables applications to be delivered at scale for a variety of workloads and client devices. The cloud can help deliver IT as a standardized service…freeing you up to focus on your business
• #11: Speaking Points: There are numerous terms and definitions floating around in the industry for “the cloud”, “cloud computing”, “cloud services”, etc. Microsoft thinks of the cloud as simply an approach to computing that enables applications to be delivered at scale for a variety of workloads and client devices. The cloud can help deliver IT as a standardized service…freeing you up to focus on your business
• #12: Slide Objectives: Explain the three established industry terms for cloud services Speaker Notes: There is a lot of talk in the industry about different terms like Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, and Software as a Service. Since PDC08 when we first announced the Windows Azure our focus has been on delivering a platform as a service offering where you can build applications. Where the platform abstracts you from the complexities of building and running applications. We fundamentally believe that the future path forward for development is by providing a platform. In fact, as you’ll see in a few minutes, we believe that there are a number of new capabilities that should be delivered as services to the platform. Notes: There is a lot of confusion in the industry when it comes to the cloud. It’s important that you understand both what is happening in the industry and how we think about the cloud. This is the most commonly used taxonomy for differentiating between types of cloud services. The industry has defined three categories of services: IaaS – a set of infrastructure level capabilities such as an operating system, network connectivity, etc. that are delivered as pay for use services and can be used to host applications. PaaS – higher level sets of functionality that are delivered as consumable services for developers who are building applications. PaaS is about abstracting developers from the underlying infrastructure to enable applications to quickly be composed. SaaS – applications that are delivered using a service delivery model where organizations can simply consume and use the application. Typically an organization would pay for the use of the application or the application could be monetized through ad revenue. It is important to note that these 3 types of services may exist independently of one another or combined with one another.
• #14: Slide Objectives: Provide a high level summary of Windows Azure and what it enables at a high level Speaking Points: Transition: Several of you are probably asking, just what is Windows Azure? Definition: From a high level, Windows Azure is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing platform. It’s designed to enable you to build, deploy, and scale your applications in the cloud. Over the last year, we’ve been focused on three core tenants with Windows Azure – which you will see reflected throughout this keynote. Flexible The first is to make it Windows Azure really flexible and able to handle pretty much any workload on top of it. When we introduced Windows Azure a few years ago, we pioneered the concept of Platform as a Service, by providing a set of scalable, managed services that you can advantage of as a developer [to compose applications] We continue to push that forward with a bunch of great features that you will see in a few minutes This past year we have also enabled a concept called infrastructure as a service, which is the ability to host and scale durable virtual machines in the cloud as well. With Windows Azure’s support for infrastructure as a service, you can install Windows or Linux and more easily migrate existing applications and workloads. This combination of the ability to run both platform as a service and infrastructure as a service together ends up being a really powerful combination and makes Windows Azure super flexible. Open We also focused a lot this year on making Windows Azure even more open. With Windows Azure you can use your choice of operating systems, your choice of frameworks, and your choice of tools. This really opens up the most possibilities in terms of building on the platform Another aspect of this openness is to use open protocols whenever possible. For example, we use the memcachD protocol for our Caching service, we now support the AMQP protocol for our Service Bus messaging service, and all of the managed services are exposed through simple REST-based APIs that can be called from any framework or language. This enables you to interoperate very easily with our services and integrate with what you already have We’ve also taken all of our SDKs for Windows Azure and released them under an Apache 2 open source license and hosted them on GitHub. Solid Lastly, we’ve focused a lot during the last year on making Windows Azure a really solid platform. One that you can bet your business on and that you know will be reliable. Built in across the platform is support for redundancy and across our managed services we provide guaranteed SLAs that you can bet on and know that your applications will scale and scale reliably. Summary We believe the end result is truly a unique model You can now use both platform as a service and infrastructure as a service *together* You can now use the best of the Microsoft ecosystem and the best of the open source ecosystem *together* Enabling you to build better and more scalable solutions. Notes: Comprehensive set of services that enable you to build, host and scale applications in Microsoft datacenters Windows Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment.
• #15: Speaking Points: Windows Azure itself is deployed around the world With Windows Azure, we have a concept of regions, which is where you choose to place your code and run. In each of the regions, we have a Microsoft datacenter. These datacenters are massive facilities that host 10s or in some cases hundreds of thousands of servers We have currently four regions in North America, two regions in Europe, and two in Aisa As you can see on this slide we also have a number of CDN edge points, which we can use to cache your content and deliver it even faster for customers. % What you’re going to see in the next couple months and years is that we will rapidly expand our datacenter footprint around the world, so you will have more options for running your applications. Once you build an application, you can choose where you want to run in the world and you can move your workloads from region to region. You can also run your application in multiple regions simultaneously and just direct traffic and customers to whichever version of the app is closest to them. That gives you a global footprint and a chance to reach a bigger customer base or audience in new markets Notes: Windows Azure services such as compute and storage are now available in 8 worldwide datacenters with an additional 24 Content Delivery Network endpoints. You can’t have a real cloud without a data center.
• #16: Speaking Points: The final thing I’ll mention about Windows Azure, before we dive into the tour of services is the approach we’re taking with paying for services. This maybe different for many of you who are familiar with hosting providers and on-premises systems. With Windows Azure you pay only for what you use. There are no upfront cost There is no need to buy any up front server licenses, that’s just included in the price Likewise if you use a SQL database, through our SQL Database feature in Windows Azure, you don’t have to buy a SQL Server license, that’s also included in the price. For compute services such as Virtual Machines and Web Sites you only pay by the hour. This gives you the flexibility to run your applications very cost effectively. You can scale up and scale down your solutions or even turn them on and off as necessary. This also opens up a ton of possibilities in terms of the new types of apps you can build