Are you taking Kentico CMS to the Windows Azure cloud? What’s important to know? In this webinar Dominik Pinter, Kentico CMS Senior Developer, covers the top five things everyone should know when running Kentico CMS in the cloud.

1. 5 things you need to know about Windows Azure Dominik Pinter, dominikp@kentico.com

2. Five key points What is Windows Azure Architecture differences between on-premise and Microsoft cloud Workflow Windows Azure challenges Where to find best information

3. What is Windows Azure 1

4. What is Windows Azure Cloud computing service from Microsoft Combination of PaaS and IaaS New development platform

5. Windows Azure as part of Windows Azure SQL Azure Windows Azure Compute Database SQL reporting Storage Networking Windows Azure market Windows Azure App farbric Data market Service bus Access control Application market Cache

6. Architecture differences 2

8. All applications run on Windows server

9. Application uses SQL server or another type of storage for data

11. There is no persistent/durable virtual machine

12. There is no persistent/durable NTFS file system

13. Application runs in multi instance (server) environment

15. Admin mode

16. Startup tasks

17. VM role

19. Main idea: „Customer will not see difference between on-premise and off-premise“

20. Support of mixed solutionsSingle Installation Requirements Growth Cloud Mixed Split your installation Own your installation

22. Every part could be mixedAppFabric cache ASP.NET Web role SQL Azure Azure storage

23. Workflow 3

25. Not same as real cloud

26. Necesary for development

27. Testing in real cloud

28. Costs same as production

29. Portal, Visual studio, powershell, API, ...

30. Swap

32. Challenges Don‘t need to worry about: CPU, Memory, storage, ... Need to solve: Running in multi VM environment How/where to store application state How/where to store application data

34. Load balancer

35. Round robin algorithmInstance 2 Load balancer Challenges Synchronization of memory objects Storing of session state data Solution 1. Current: 1 instance support Next: improved web farms module Current: InProc session state provider Next: Appfabric cache session state provider Instance 3

38. Where to find best information 5

39. Where to find best information Windows Azure in general: Every half year new update => need to learn new things Windows Azure platform training kit http://www.windowsazureblog.com/ Microsoft conferences – Mix, PDC, ... Windows Azure and Kentico CMS: Our devnet portal: http://devnet.kentico.com Azure deployment guide Kentico webinars

40. Q&A ?

41. Thank you! E-mail: dominikp@kentico.com Twitter: DominikPinter Blog: http://devnet.kentico.com/Blogs/Dominik-Pinter.aspx