As everything goes “to the cloud” it would come to reason the same
thing would happen to business applications and data storage. Enter
the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform, Microsoft's cloud solution.
Using a cloud benefits a company by allowing the usage of the online
servers to store and run applications without the expense and man
hours needed to maintain the hardware while saving money on licensing
costs. This exploring course will cover the many aspects and components
of Windows Azure. The course will give you an introduction to Azure,
the different types of services that can be hosted in Windows Azure
such as web and worker roles, and then move on to the basics of Azure's
durable storage solution, which include Azure queues, blobs, and tables.
Next you will get a full introduction in SQL Azure, Microsoft's cloud-
based relational database, and how you can use SQL Azure to store your
relational data on the cloud. This will be followed up by discussions
including Azure AppFabric, Cloud Computing Patterns & Practices and
Diagnostics & Service Management.

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