Cloud Computing
with the Windows® Azure Platform
Roger Jennings
Leverage the capabilities of Azure
Cloud-based applications make it easier to share data, and the
Azure Platform moves processing and storage from individual
corporate servers and websites to large Microsoft data centers.
With this book, Roger Jennings offers you an overview of cloud
computing and shares his approach for hands-on programming of
Windows Azure Storage Services (tables, blobs, and queues) and web,
worker, and .NET Services applications. You''ll learn how to
program with Azure components, while online chapters cover new SQL
Azure Database and Workflow features.
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Addresses various issues you may encounter when moving from
on-premise to cloud-based applications (such as security, privacy,
regulatory compliance, and backup and recovery)
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Shows how to adapt ASP.NET authentication and role management to
Azure web roles
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Reveals the benefits of offloading computing services to one or
more WorkerRoles when moving to Windows Azure
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Teaches you how to choose the optimum combination of
PartitionKey and RowKey values for sharding Azure tables
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Discusses ways to improve the scalability and performance of
Azure tables
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