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Some companies participated at the event and proposed a couple of ideas/architectures which have been merged in a single, layered, multi-platform application with the help of Roberto: a web site, hosted on Windows Azure (WebRole) back-end based on Windows Azure Storage and/or a web service a web service hosted on Windows Azure back-end based on Windows Azure Storage active collaboration with a WorkerRole service a web service hosted on an on-premise IIS server back-end based on Windows Azure Storage and/or a web service active collaboration with a WorkerRole service on Windows Azure a desktop / embedded client application, which works with cloud data and features directly on Windows Azure ( Storage / Queue / SQLAzure ) and/or via a web service n-tier architecture (data access, business logic, UI, services) unit testing Software architecture has been deeply analyzed (even tough it was ...

By reading a column about Microsoft enters into Cloud Computing and their concept named as Windows Azure. Not sure why Bill Gates names for his GUI DOS Version named "Windows" long ago. Now Microsoft named Cloud concept names as AZURE. I started searching what is Azure and what does it mean etc. Some how I got it like the word Azure meaning "Clear Blue Sky", "Deep Blue" from some of the dictionary managing websites. Microsoft always uses blue color every where in the website, software designing. Azure meaning and name origin Azure \a-zu-re\ as a girl's name is pronounced AH-zhure. It is of Spanish origin, and the meaning of Azure is "sky blue". The color, from "azul", used as a given name. Suitable for a blue-eyed baby.

The original name of this post was "a poor developer's guide to windows azure" but then I found the Bart Simpson's Chalkboard Generator : My Azure story begins back in PDC08 where Microsoft announced a community preview of Windows Azure which includes a free subscription for a limited period. I took advantage of this to develop the Wcf binding box (which btw got some good reviews ). A few months after, the preview has ended and my account became read only. I was not too bothered by it as I had other things in mind . A few weeks ago I had a crazy idea to build a wsdl2-->wsdl1 converter. The most natural way to do it was to create an online service. But my azure trial is already in freeze, and I did not want to pay a hosting service just to host a free contribution I make for the community. What could I do? I then remembered that I (and my contest winners ) have a special MSDN premium Azure offer . And this is how wsdl2wsdl came to life. Veni, vidi, v...

This week, Microsoft took the wraps off the cloud operating system that CEO Steve Ballmer hinted at earlier this month and that has been under development for two years under Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie. Named Azure, it is the foundation of what will become the hosting platform run by Microsoft, first in its own data centers and potentially licensed to other data-center providers. The release is the first part of Microsoft's services platform, and it provides an outline for where Azure is going. What is Azure? Azure is Microsoft's operating system for the cloud, code-named Red Dog, and will anchor the Azure Services Platform that Microsoft will run from its hosting data centers. Azure also is a development environment for builders of applications for the cloud. What's with the name? Azure is a blue color in the HSV color space, which is widely used to generate high-quality computer graphics. Blue Sky. Clouds. Get it? So it's just an operat...