The Future of Microsoft Windows Azure
There's a lot going on with Microsoft's cloud computing platform, Windows Azure. At the recent 流媒体 West conference in Los Angeles, 克里斯•诺尔顿, then the senior product manager for media platform at Microsoft, showed off the platform's new capabilities 和 gave a look where it's headed.
Starting with an introduction, Knowlton introduced Azure to those new to it:
"For those of you not familiar with Azure, it has a lot of things in it, 包括存储, the ability to do computing for you, 完整的管理, a relational database capability with tools 和 management for those. There's something called service bus which allows you to actually communicate between the various pieces of your Azure service 和 other services 和 on-premises applications. And then there's access control, which allows you to really have that hybrid model were you can say who can touch your content, who can access your content, who can manage your content. 也, if you're doing something on-premises 和 you have an application up in the cloud, that means you can actually have that situation where you have a single sign-on on-premises that also gets you access to your assets up on Azure,诺尔顿开口说.
Knowlton next zoomed in on the platform's content delivery network (CDN), which would be the focus of his talk.
“那么Azure CDN是什么呢?, because that's really what I'm going to be talking about today. It's a CDN built out on Azure. We've been using it for about three years for our own distribution of software. We found that we had a need to do that on a fairly regular basis. We release software all the time; people are accessing it. It became more cost-effective for us to release our own CDN. 最近, 在过去一年中, 我们已经公开了, so that everyone can have that same quality of service 和 everything else that you might expect from a CDN,诺尔顿说.
For more on Azure or on Amazon CloudFront, watch the full video below. To follow along, download the Windows Azure 和 Amazon CloudFront 演讲.
Cloud Demos: Amazon CloudFront 和 Windows Azure
在本次会议上, learn how to use both Amazon 和 Microsoft's cloud platforms 和 see demos of how they both work. With no upfront expenses 和 no long-term commitment, Amazon's CloudFront platform 和 Microsoft's Windows Azure platform enable you to pay only for the resources you use. 学习如何, 在几分钟内, you can configure both platforms to store 和 deliver your content 和 applications using Amazon 和 Microsoft's infrastructure.
Speaker: 克里斯•诺尔顿, Senior Product Manager, Media Platform, Microsoft
Speaker: Tal Saraf, General Manager, Amazon CloudFront
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