Windows Azure Platform: an Era for Cloud Computing
نویسندگان
چکیده
Windows Azure platform is the Microsoft implementation of cloud computing. This paper covers detailed introduction to Windows Azure Platform. Windows Azure provides resources and services for consumers. The next part describes the five main components of Windows Azure: Hardware is abstracted and exposed as compute resources. Physical storage is abstracted as storage resources and exposed through very well defined interfaces. A common Windows Fabric abstracts the hardware and the software and exposes virtual compute and storage resources. Windows Azure also introduces some new storage options over and above the usual file system. Windows Azure programming model helps developers create applications that are easier to administer, more available, and more scalable than those built in the traditional Windows Server environment. Keywords— Windows Azure, Cloud, Components, Storage Model, Programming Model.
منابع مشابه
Aneka Cloud Application Platform and Its Integration with Windows Azure
Aneka is an Application Platform-as-a-Service (Aneka PaaS) for Cloud Computing. It acts as a framework for building customized applications and deploying them on either public or private Clouds. One of the key features of Aneka is its support for provisioning resources on different public Cloud providers such as Amazon EC2, Windows Azure and GoGrid. In this chapter, we will present Aneka platfo...
متن کاملRapid Processing of Synthetic Seismograms Using Windows
Currently, numerically simulated synthetic seismograms are widely used by seismologists for seismological inferences. The generation of these synthetic seismograms requires large amount of computing resources, and the maintenance of these observed seismograms requires massive storage. Traditional high-performance computing platforms is inefficient to handle these applications because rapid comp...
متن کاملTowards an MPI-like Framework for Azure Cloud Platform
Message passing interface (MPI) has been widely used for implementing parallel and distributed applications. The emergence of cloud computing offers a scalable, fault-tolerant, on-demand alternative to traditional on-premise clusters. In this thesis, we investigate the possibility of adopting the cloud platform as an alternative to conventional MPI-based solutions. We show that cloud platform c...
متن کاملEssential Cloud Security Features in Windows Azure
Cloud computing technology is recently gaining widespread popularity among business owners and consumers/users for hosting and delivering services over the Internet. This technology offers users on-demand access to shared resources, services, and applications with the Internet access by eliminating the need for tedious installation procedures. Security and privacy issues in cloud computing is o...
متن کاملIterative MapReduce for Azure Cloud
MapReduce distributed data processing architecture has become the de-facto data-intensive analysis mechanism in compute clouds and in commodity clusters, mainly due to its excellent fault tolerance features, scalability, ease of use and the simpler programming model. MapReduceRoles for Azure (MR4Azure) is a decentralized, dynamically scalable MapReduce runtime we developed for Windows Azure Clo...
متن کامل