Presentation by Carlos Oliveira from Shaping the Cloud overview of what windows Azure is and can do. Presented at UK Cloud Education day 2013

1. Carlos Oliveira @carlosatshaping
Shaping Cloud @shapingcloud
An Introduction to Windows Azure

3. Packaged
Software
Storage
Servers
Networking
O/S
Middleware
Virtualization
Data
Applications
Runtime
Youmanage

4. Usage
Compute
Average
Inactivity
Period
On and Off
On & off workloads (e.g. batch job)
Over provisioned capacity is wasted
Time to market can be cumbersome
Unpredictable Bursting
Unexpected/unplanned peak in demand
Sudden spike impacts performance
Can’t over provision for extreme cases
Compute
Average Usage
Growing Fast
Successful services needs to grow/scale
Keeping up w/ growth is big IT challenge
Cannot provision hardware fast enough
Average Usage
Compute
Predictable Bursting
Services with micro seasonality trends
Peaks due to periodic increased demand
IT complexity and wasted capacity
Compute

18. Demo

19. Scenarios
Web Sites
Compute Intensive apps
Device Applications
Web APIs
Social Games

21. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/davidmcg/