Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Blob, SQL, Message and Fabric – A short intro to Azure storage choices

InfoQ - Azure Storage Options

“First some terminology. The term Windows Azure Platform covers all of Microsoft’s cloud offering. Within the Windows Azure Platform are three principal offerings. The virtual machine component is called Windows Azure. Also know as compute, it supports web roles for hosting web sites and worker roles for back-end processing. SQL Azure is based on SQL Server and has many of the same features. Finally there is Windows Azure platform AppFabric, which shouldn’t be confused with Windows Server AppFabric. Azure AppFabric is a message bus, with the goal of making authentication and message passing easier, especially across firewalls.

Azure Platform offers a plethora of storage options, making choosing which to use potentially quite difficult. …

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I thought this post provided a nice overview of the many Azure storage choices and options…

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  1. AnonymousTue Dec 22, 09:52:00 PM PST

    I'm glad you liked the article.

    Jonathan

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