Cloud Computing With The Windows Azure Platform

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Part 1 begins by 1) defining the term cloud computing and contrasting it with application hosting, 2) comparing Azure to earlier (competitive) horizontal implementations, the Google App Engine, and others, hosted .NET-centric business applications, and 3) examining issues that .NET developers and IT departments face in moving from on-premise to cloud-based applications/projects, such as security privacy, regulatory compliance (Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC, etc.), backup and recovery, asset cataloging and management, and other common technical concerns. Part I then moves on to describe all major Azure Platform components, comparing them with competitor's related offerings for capability and programming ease. Part 2 covers basic programming for individual Azure components: Storage (tables, blobs and queues), SQL Data Services (relational vs. tuple-based structured storage), and .NET Services (Access Control, Workflow, and Service Bus). Part 3 covers the more advanced programming challenges of creating useful projects that combine cloud storage with Web applications or services. (Part 3 anticipates that the Azure team will have a substantially larger repertoire of sample projects available by the estimated chapter submittal schedule.) The book's companion website will include complete, finished applications capable of being uploaded to a Windows Azure project and run in production.

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Roger Jennings is the principal consultant of OakLeaf Systems and the author of 30+ books on Microsoft operating systems (Windows NT and 2000 Server), databases (SQL Server and Access), .NET data access, Web services and InfoPath 2003. The books have more than 1.25 million English copies in print and have been translated into 20+ languages. My latest book is Wrox's Professional ADO.NET 3.5 with LINQ and the Entity Framework. I'm also a contributing editor for Visual Studio Magazine, write for Redmond Developer News, and author the OakLeaf Systems blog. Table of Contents Introduction. Part I: Introducing the Windows Azure Platform. Chapter 1: Surveying the Role of Cloud Computing. Chapter 2: Understanding Windows Azure Platform Architecture. Chapter 3: Analyzing the Windows Azure Operating System. Chapter 4: Scaling Azure Table and Blob Storage. Part II: Taking Advantage of Cloud Services in the Enterprise. Chapter 5: Minimizing Risk When Moving to Azure Cloud Services. Chapter 6: Authenticating and Authorizing Service Users. Chapter 7: Optimizing the Scalability and Performance of Azure Tables. Chapter 8: Messaging with Azure Queues. Part III: Tackling Advanced Azure Services Techniques. Chapter 9: Authenticating Users with .NET Access Control Services. Chapter 10: Interconnecting Services with the .NET Service Bus. Chapter 11: Exploring .NET Service Bus Queues and Routers. Part IV: Working with SQL Azure Services (Online Only). Chapter 12: Managing SQL Azure Accounts, Databases, and DataHubs. Chapter13: Exploiting SQL Azure Database's Relational Features. Index.