Keynote - Silicon Valley Cloud Computing User Group Meet - April 2011 - Sriram Krishnan
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This document provides an overview of Windows Azure, including what it is, some of its key services and features, how it works under the covers with compute and storage clusters across global data centers, how many popular open source stacks can run on it, and examples of companies using it at scale like Bing. It also mentions that Windows Azure offers a free 30-day trial that can be accessed with a provided code.
Keynote - Silicon Valley Cloud Computing User Group Meet - April 2011 - Sriram Krishnan
- 2. ST:TNG “The Inner Light”
- 3. 4 things
- 5. <4>
- 6. What is Windows Azure?
- 8. What/Why Windows Azure?Windows Azure is an “OS for the cloud”
- 10. Automated app, OS servicing
- 11. Scale-out
- 12. Storage options
- 15. Global scale (6 DCs, 24 CDN nodes)
- 16. Lots of languagesSome of our ServicesRaw x86/x64 computation
- 18. Blobs
- 19. Network attached block storage
- 20. Queues
- 21. Tables (NoSQL)
- 22. RDBMS (as a service)
- 23. VPN
- 24. CDN
- 25. Traffic Manager
- 26. Caching
- 27. Service Bus
- 28. Access Control (as a service)
- 29. And more…</4>
- 30. <3>
- 31. Windows Azure under the covers
- 32. At the bottomSix locations around the world – two each in the US, Europe and Asia
- 33. 24 CDN nodes
- 34. State of the art power, cooling, infrastructure.
- 35. Thousands of nodes with custom SKUs optimized for Windows Azure
- 36. Each node has 8 cores. Chopped up into 1,2, 4 and 8 cores based on S, M, L and XL VM sizes (XS VMs are a bit different).
- 37. Custom hypervisor optimized for our workloads
- 38. Business PortalDeveloper PortalRESTFabric ControllerUser Code……Runtime APIStorage ClusterCompute Cluster…VM SetupRESTMSFT DatacentersCloud VM
- 39. The Windows Azure Service ModelA Windows Azure application is called a “service”Definition + configuration informationAt least one “role”Roles are like linked-librariesin the service “process”
- 40. Three kinds of rolesWeb roleIIS started automaticallyWorker roleDLL/lib with main()Started automaticallyVM RoleUpload your own VHD (virtual hard disk)No automated servicing
- 41. </3>
- 42. <2>
- 44. How?If it works on Windows…
- 45. Most do.
- 46. Recent features make this easier
- 47. Elevated privileges – run as admin/root
- 48. Startup tasks – install before launch
- 49. Full IIS – reverse proxy, FastCGiJava (official SDK + tools)
- 50. PHP (official SDK + tools)
- 51. (runs Wordpress, SugarCRM,…)
- 54. Node.js
- 55. Erlang
- 57. Memcached
- 58. Cassandra
- 59. MongoDB
- 60. Redis
- 63. <1>
- 64. Who is using it at scale?
- 67. Bing
- 68. </1>
- 71. Windows Azure free for 30 dayswindowsazurepass.comCode: “MEETUP”