Windows Azure Platform overview; Microsoft's cloud computing platform

3. (15 years)
450M+
active users
(13 years)
550M
users/mth
(12 years)
Largest non-
ICP/IP cloud
service
x100M users
(11 years)
320M+
active
users
(11 years)
2B
queries/mth
(15 years)
450M+
active users
(7 years)
5B conf
min/yr
(6 years)
4B
emails/day

4. Web & Structured
Data Indices

6. > Purpose-built data centre to
accommodate containers at large
scale
 Cost $500 million, 100,000 square foot
facility (10 football fields)
> 40 foot shipping containers can
house as many as 2,500 servers
 Density of 10 times amount of compute in
equivalent space in traditional data centre
> Can deliver an average PUE of 1.22
 Power Usage Effectiveness benchmark from
The Green Grid™ consortium on energy
efficiency

16. Quincy, WA Chicago, IL San Antonio, TX Dublin, Ireland Generation 4 DCs

18. Abstract Resources
On-premise
Physical Resources
Public Cloud
Customizability Ease of Provisioning
Global ReachSecurity & Privacy
Real-Time Performance Redundancy & Resiliency
Scalability & AvailabilityConsistency & Control
HomogeneityHeterogeneity

19. Storage
Unstructured
Data
Blobs
Message
Queues
Distributed
Filesystem
Content
Distribution
Data Transact-SQL
Data
Synchronization
Relational
Database
ADO.NET,
ODBC, PHP
Connectivity
Composite
Applications
On-Premise
Bridging
Service Bus
Security
Claims-Based
Identity
Federated
Identities
Secure Token
Service
Declarative
Policies
Application Services
Application
Marketplace
Information
Marketplace
Personal Data
Repository
Frameworks
Workflow
Hosting
Distributed
Cache
Services
Hosting
Compute

20. Compute
Storage
Table Storage
Service
Blob Storage
Service
Queue
Service
Xdrive CDN
Data
SQL Azure
Data Sync
Connectivity
Project
“Sydney”
Security “Geneva”
Application Services
Frameworks “Dublin” “Velocity”

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22. Web Hosting
 Massive scale infrastructure
 Burst & overflow capacity
 Temporary, ad-hoc sites
Application Hosting
 Hybrid applications
 Composite applications
 Automated agents / jobs
Media Hosting & Processing
 CGI rendering
 Content transcoding
 Media streaming
Distributed Storage
 External backup and storage
High Performance Computing
 Parallel & distributed processing
 Massive modeling & simulation
 Advanced analytics
Information Sharing
 Reference data
 Common data repositories
 Knowledge discovery & mgmt
Collaborative Processes
 Multi-enterprise integration
 B2B & e-commerce
 Supply chain management
 Health & life sciences
 Domain-specific services

23. Design
 Horizontal scaling
 Service-oriented composition
 Eventual consistency
 Fault tolerant (expect failures)
Security
 Claims-based authentication &
access control
 Federated identity
 Data encryption & key mgmt.
Management
 Policy-driven automation
 Aware of application lifecycles
 Handle dynamic data schema and
configuration changes
Data & Content
 De-normalization
 Logical partitioning
 Distributed in-memory cache
 Diverse data storage options
(persistent & transient, relational
& unstructured, text & binary,
read & write, etc.)
Processes
 Loosely coupled components
 Parallel & distributed processing
 Asynchronous distributed
communication
 Idempotent (handle duplicity)
 Isolation (separation of concerns)

24. SERVICESSERVERS

26. > fabric cloud
> Hybrid on-premise cloud
> Consistent model tools

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