1. Windows Azure Platform Overview
Bill Zack

2. About Bill Solutions Architect/Developer & Technical Project Manager
Involved with .NET (from the beginning)
Microsoft Windows Azure Specialist (5 Years or so…)
Community leader:
NYC .NET Developers Group
NYC/NJ Windows Azure Users Group
NY Chapter of the International Association of Software Architects
Implemented cloud applications on:
Windows Azure
Amazon Web Services

3. About Bill (ctd) Consultant Currently at Take Care Health in Franklin
Via Internal Data Resources

4. To Contact Me
Blog: CloudyInNewYork.com
Soon to be CloudyInNashville.com 
LinkedIn: Search “William Zack”
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5. NIST Definition of Cloud
Enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.

6. Allocated IT-capacities
Load Forecast
Not Enough Power
Too Much Power
IT CAPACITY
Actual Load
TIME

7. No screaming customers
Load Forecast
No screaming customers
Capacity on Demand
IT CAPACITY
No capital laying idle
Knob goes up...
And...
down
Lower Capex
Actual Load
TIME

8. Cloud Computing Patterns
“On and Off “
“Growing Fast“
Compute
Inactivity
Period
Compute
Average Usage
Average
Usage
Time
Time
On & off workloads (e.g. batch job)
Over provisioned capacity is wasted
Time to market can be cumbersome
Successful services needs to grow/scale
Keeping up w/ growth is big IT challenge
Cannot provision hardware fast enough
“Unpredictable Bursting“
“Predictable Bursting“
Compute
Compute
Average Usage
Average Usage
Time
Time
Unexpected/unplanned peak in demand
Sudden spike impacts performance
Can’t over provision for extreme cases
Services with micro seasonality trends
Peaks due to periodic increased demand
IT complexity and wasted capacity

9. Big Data Pattern Terabytes to petabytes
High Performance and High Scale Compute
Molecular Conformation Pilot (1 week -> 7 Hours)

10. HDInsight (Hadoop)
Framework for distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using a simple programming model (Map/Reduce)
Scales up from single servers to thousands of machines
Library detects and handles failures at the application layer
Currently in CTP

11. Cloud Services “IaaS” “PaaS” “SaaS” host build consume
Software-as-a-Service
consume
“SaaS”
Platform-as-a-Service
build
“PaaS”
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
host
“IaaS”

12. Cloud Taxonomy Packaged Software Infrastructure Platform Software
Storage
Servers
Networking
O/S
Middleware
Virtualization
Data
Applications
Runtime
You manage
Infrastructure
(as a Service)
Storage
Servers
Networking
O/S
Middleware
Virtualization
Data
Applications
Runtime
Managed by vendor
You manage
Platform
(as a Service)
Managed by vendor
You manage
Storage
Servers
Networking
O/S
Middleware
Virtualization
Applications
Runtime
Data
Software
(as a Service)
Managed by vendor
Storage
Servers
Networking
O/S
Middleware
Virtualization
Applications
Runtime
Data

13. The Windows Azure Platform
Courtesy of the MSDN Library:

14. Applications/Compute

15. Cloud Services
Web Roles
Worker Roles
VM Role

16. Scalable Roles Windows Azure Internet Web Site Worker Service Web RoleLB
Web Site
(ASPX, ASMX, WCF)
Web Role
(ASPX, WCF)
Storage
Queues
Worker Service
Tables
Blobs

17. Windows Azure Your Service Fabric Controller Web Portal (API) DNS LB

18. Service Deployment Your Service Service Service Service Model DNSLB
DNS
Service
Service
Service
Your
Service
Model
Web Portal
(API)
DNS
Fabric
Controller
config

19. Service Scaling Your Service Fabric Controller Model Web Portal (API)LB
DNS
Your
Service
Service
Service
Service
Service
Service
Service
Service
Service
Web Portal
(API)
Fabric
Controller
Model

20. Service Monitoring & RecoveryLB
DNS
Your
Service
Service
Service
Service
Service
Web Portal
(API) !
Fabric
Controller
Model

21. Compute Roles Web Role Worker Role VM Role Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
IIS 7
ASP.NET 3.5 SP1
FastCGI – PHP
Native Code
Full Trust
User Mode
Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
.NET Start
Native Code
User Mode
VM Role

22. Standard Instances

23. Memory Intensive Instances

24. Bandwidth

25. Web Sites (The “other” PaaS)
Makes creation of simple two-tier web sites fast
Excellent for Startups
Deploy with FTP, TFS or GIT
Free Tier (Shared vs. Reserved)
SQL Server or MySQL Database back end
The “Google AppEngine killer” 

26. Web Sites: Two-Tier with a Database

27. Done in Seconds!

28. Find Apps for Azure Web Sites

29. Virtual Machines Persistent OS Image (finally!) Boot from Blob storage
Mountable Drives backed by Blobs
Hyper-V compatible (upload/download VHD)
Gallery of choices

30. Virtual Machines

31. Data Management

32. Storage Scalable storage in the cloud
Auto-scale to meet massive volume and throughput
Accessible via RESTful Web Service API & .NET Client Library
Access from anywhere internal to Windows Azure
Access from anywhere at all via the Internet
All data stored in triplicate
Fault tolerant (3 local copies)
Geo-Replicated (If desired)
Queues
Blobs
Tables
Drives

33. Storage Types Tables (NoSQL) Blobs Queues Drives
Table = group of entities
Entity = name/value pairs
Partitioned by key
Scale out to billions of entities
Not Relational!
Blobs
Large binary storage
Stored in container
Unlimited containers
CDN Deliverable
Partitioned by Blob name
Queues
Simple message queue
Not transactional
Read at least once
Delete to remove message, otherwise is returned to queue
Partitioned by Queue Name
Drives
NTFS VHD can be mounted by:
Cloud Services
Virtual Machines (New)
Backed by Page Blob

34. Storage Costs

35. Windows Azure Backup (new)
Cloud backups through familiar tools: Windows Server, System Center Data Protection Manager (Based on StorSimple)

36. SQL Database
Familiar SQL Server relational database model delivered as a service
Support for existing APIs & tools
Built for the cloud with high availability & fault tolerance
Easily provision and manage databases across multiple data centers
SQL Database provides logical server
Gateway server that understands TDS protocol
Looks like SQL Server to TDS Client
Actual data stored on multiple backend data nodes
Logical optimizations supported
Indexes, Query plans etc..
Physical optimizations not supported
File Groups, Partitions etc…
Transparently manages physical storage
Primary and three replicas stored

37. SQL Database Pricing

38. SQL DataSync Geo-replication of SQL Database data
Spanning on-premises with cloud
Builds on the Sync Framework
On-Premises
Cloud
Offline Clients

39. Identity

40. Windows Azure Active Directory
Exchange
Online
Active Directory revised to operate as Internet-scale multi-tenant identity service, built concurrently with Office 365, Extended to Windows Azure
Extends Windows Server Active Directory into the cloud
Provides cloud-based identity services for organizations without Windows Server AD
Incorporates old Access Control Service
SharePoint
Online
Lync
Online
Azure AD AD

41. Access Control Service
Claims based access control for REST web services
Usable from any platform
Implements OAuth WRAP, SWT, SAML
Low-friction way to onboard new clients
Integrates with ADFS/AD
Enables simple delegation

42. Connectivity

43. Networking

44. Service Bus Relay Service Connect endpoints through firewalls Queues
Scatter/gather & impedance matching patterns
More advanced than Windows Azure Queues
Topics
Publish/Subscribe at Internet scale

45. BizTalk Services (new)
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

46. Cross-premises Connectivity
WINDOWS AZURE CONNECT
WINDOWS AZURE VIRTUAL NETWORK
Windows Azure
Windows Azure
On-premises
On-premises
SIMPLE TO SETUP AND MANAGE
E2E SECURITY
RAPID PROVISIONING
EASY
COMPLETE CONTROL
SCALABLE
COMPLEX SCENARIOS
ENTERPRISE-READY

47. Connect
Secure network connectivity between on-premises and cloud
Supports standard IP protocols
Enables hybrid apps access to on-premises servers
Allows remote administration of Windows Azure apps
Simple setup and management
Integrated with all role types and Virtual Machines (new)
Windows Azure
Enterprise

48. Virtual Network True VPN
Supported on selected VPN devices (Cisco & Juniper)
Works with other brands of VPN hardware
See
Or use Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS)
No Agent required (unlike Connect)

49. Windows Azure Virtual Network
Your “virtual” branch office / datacenter in the cloud
Extend YOUR Enterprise Networks to Windows Azure.
Networking on-ramp for migrating existing apps and services to Windows Azure.
Enables “hybrid” apps that span cloud and premises.
A protected private virtual network in the cloud
Enables customers to setup secure private IPv4 networks fully contained within Windows Azure.
IP address persistence.
Inter-service DIP-to-DIP communication.
Corpnet
Windows Azure
VM 1
VM 2
Subnet 1
Subnet 2
ROLE 1
Windows Azure Virtual Networks is our solution to providing hybrid solutions and solutions that require advanced connectivity in the cloud.
Hybrid on-premises to cloud is enabled by using the VPN solution that allows site<->site connectivity allowing machines on premise and machines in the cloud to appear on the same network.
Advanced connectivity solutions are enabled because Windows Azure applications that are deployed in to a virtual network will have persistent IP addresses. This is a requirement for solutions like Active Directory.
Other solutions enabled by virtual networks in the cloud are mixing VMs and web/worker role solutions in the same Windows Azure network. This allows for scenarios like web/worker roles to communicate back to VMs running applications like SQL server.

50. Windows Azure Virtual Network Scenarios
Hybrid Public/Private Cloud
Enterprise app in Windows Azure requiring connectivity to on-premise resources
Enterprise Identity and Access Control
Manage identity and access control with on-premise resources (on-premises Active Directory)
Monitoring and Management
Remote monitoring and trouble-shooting of resources running in Windows Azure
Advanced Connectivity Requirements
Cloud deployments requiring persistent IP addresses and direct connectivity across services

51. Bringing Workloads to the Cloud
On Premises
Production
SQL Farm
IIS Servers
AD / DNS
SharePoint
PaaS Roles
S2S VPN tunnels
S2S VPN Device
Exchange
File Servers
Local AD
SQL VMs

52. Traffic Manager Routes request to “nearest” service endpoint.
Useful for performance, business continuity, price, compliance & tax
Not the same as CDN
CNAMEs supported
foo.cloudapp.net
Traffic Manager
foo-us.cloudapp.net
Policies
Monitoring
foo-europe.cloudapp.net
DNS response
foo-asia.cloudapp.net

53. Performance

54. Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Scenario
Frequently accessed blobs and other static content
Accessed from around the world
Desire
Same experience for users no matter how far they are from the geo-location where the storage account is hosted
Provides high-bandwidth global content delivery
23+ locations globally (US, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America)
Update 22+

55. Caching REST and memcachd APIs *
Distributed, in-memory application cache for Windows Azure apps
Primary use cases
Session state provider for Windows Azure applications
Cache layer for Windows Azure applications that leverage storage in SQL Azure Databases or Windows Azure storage
Provided as a service
Provision, configure, and use
No installation or management of machines/instances
Dynamically increase and decrease cache size as needed
Same programming model for both cloud and on-premises
REST and memcachd APIs *
Uses local VM memory or Worker Roles *

56. Windows Azure Mobile Services
Backend solutions to power mobile apps
iPhone, Android, Windows Phone & Windows 8
Structured storage with SQL Database
User Authentication:
Microsoft Account, Twitter, Facebook, Google
Push notifications (massive)
Scheduling
Logging & diagnostics

57. Media Services
Build workflows for media creation, management, and distribution
Offers the flexibility, scalability, and reliability of a cloud platform
Some common uses of Media Services include:
Support for Windows, Xbox, iOS, and Android
Cloud-based versions of many existing technologies from the Microsoft Media Platform and our media partners.
Features
Ingestion
Encoding and Format Conversion
Content Protection
On-Demand Streaming
Live Streaming (soon)

58. Business Analytics

59. SQL Reporting SQL Server Reporting provided as a service
Reports authored w/ existing tools (BIDS), uploaded to the cloud
Reports can have rich Data Visualizations (Maps, Charts, Tablix) and be exported to variety of formats (Excel, Word, PDF)
Reports rendered as part of app using the Report Viewer control
Directly view the reports in the browser
Web Service interface to render and manage reports

60. Marketplace

61. Windows Azure Marketplace
Applications
Find and publish applications and building block services for Windows Azure
Commerce capabilities coming in the future.
Data Market
Information marketplace for discovering, purchasing, & selling data
Data can be hosted in Windows Azure or by the data provider
Data exposed as OData services
Data providers include:
Data.gov, Navteq, Greg London, etc.
Directory & Commerce available today
Example app that could use:
Find me a house in my price range in a low crime area in Chicago.

62. Management Portal

63. Windows Azure Portal
User friendly Metro portal for Windows Azure Platform services (Preview)
Service visibility and control
Supports multiple service administrators (co-admins)
Enable and connect to Windows Azure instances using Remote Desktop
Incorporates Performance Management and Monitoring *
Built on the Windows Azure Service Management APIs

64. Local Development Environment

65. Local Development Environment
Windows Azure tools for
Visual Studio
Eclipse
Windows Azure SDK(s)
.NET
Node.js
Java (& Apache Tomcat)
PHP
Python
other
Cloud Emulator

66. Enterprise Level Infrastructure (GFS)
Courtesy of the MSDN Library:

67. Windows Azure Platform Data Centers
North America Region
Europe Region
Asia Pacific Region
8 datacenters across 3 continents, 29 CDN locations
Simply select your data center of choice when deploying an application

68. Unit of Modularity

69. Inside a Module

70. Summary
Courtesy of the MSDN Library:

71. Summary
Windows Azure Platform is a comprehensive PaaS and IaaS Offering
Application hosting in the Cloud
Windows and Linux server hosting in the Cloud
Data Hosting in the Cloud (Storage, SQL Database, NoSQL Database)
Middleware
Fundamental concepts:
Windows Azure Service Definition & Configuration
Windows Azure Roles
Web Sites
Virtual Machines
Virtual Networks
Commercially available today in 41 countries and 8 data centers
Continuing to expand the set of services and features all the time 
Update?

72. How to Get It Windows Azure 90-day free trial
Small amt of free usage each month
Credit card required, but you will not be charged
MSDN Premium & Ultimate automatically get
Moderate amount of free usage each month
Credit card required for overage
Have to sign up for it (Wasted if you don’t )
BizSpark also gets it via included MSDN Premium
WebsiteSpark gets one year of Windows Azure free
Update

73. Next Steps WatchChannel9 videos from TechEd Sign up for the free trial
Sign up for the free trial
Use the MSDN/EA benefits you already have
Join BizSpark if you are a startup

74. References Everything Windows Azure Management Portal
Management Portal
MSDN Developer Center
Windows Azure Training Kit

75. Questions? To Contact me:
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