25. Business Considerations Billing Consumption-based and subscription offers SLA Support 24/7 phone support; developer forums Microsoft Pinpoint Marketplace List & discover applications and services Global availability Datacenter options in USA, Europe, and Asia
27. Workload Patterns Optimal For Cloud “Growing Fast“ “On and Off “ Inactivity Period Compute Compute Average Usage Usage Average 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 Complex lead time for deployment “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
28. Business Model Consumption-based billing model Compute: Rent a VM by the hour Database: Rent a DB by the month Storage: Pay per transaction & data stored All: Pay per data transfer Various subscription offers are available
32. Windows Azure Platform References http://www.azure.com Azure Services Developer Portal http://lx.azure.microsoft.com/fs MSDN Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/default.aspx MSDN Library – Azure Services Platform http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd163896.aspx Azure Services Training Kit – April Update http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=130354
33. Windows Azure OSReferences http://www.microsoft.com/azure/windowsazure.mspx MSDN Windows Azure Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cc994380.aspx Windows Azure SDK – May CTP http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=131540 Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio – May CTP http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=128752