LOS ANGELES – It’s Windows Azure, front and center at
the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, which began today in Los
Angeles.
Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief software architect, took
the keynote stage to announce the pending availability of Windows Azure. He
also announced two Azure services: a data catalog called "Dallas,"
and a business application marketplace called "Pinpoint."
Windows Azure will go into production on Jan. 1, 2010,
Ozzie said. Meanwhile, Microsoft will continue to add new features, and select
partners will begin hosting commercial applications on Azure immediately.
WordPress developer Automattic’s founder Matt Mullenweg
joined Ozzie on stage to announce that WordPress has migrated to Windows Azure
at an infrastructure-as-a-service level. Popular blogs, including "I Can
Has Cheezburger?" and "FAIL Blog," are now running on Windows
Azure.
Dallas is an information service that Ozzie called a
“game-changing subsystem.” Dallas, which is built on Windows Azure and SQL Azure, allows developers to access commercial and private data sets across
platforms.
Pinpoint is a catalog of business applications and
services that target developers and are integrated into the Azure development
portal.
Dallas is seeded with trial data sets from media
companies, the U.S. government and others. Data can be bound to applications
via ATOM feeds and REST, said Microsoft technical fellow David Campbell.
Microsoft’s Server and Tools business president Bob
Muglia described how the company was going to help developers structure
applications for Azure, and to make applications portable to migrate from
Windows data center to the cloud. “Developers have to evolve applications to
take advantage of the cloud,” he said.
Building hybrid cloud applications is another focus of
the cloud applications model. To that end, Microsoft is working on “Sydney,” a
project to connect private data centers with Windows Azure. No further details
were provided.
On SDTimes, Azure shines over Microsoft PDC, By David Worthington.
Service
Oriented Architecture is built into every aspect of the
Microsoft technology
stack, from the developer tools that build Web services such as .NET, to server
products (like BizTalk Server and
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) which
further Web service construction by connecting and orchestrating services, and
finally to the composite applications that consume Web services (such as
web-based applications available via the Intra-, Extra- or Internet, as
well as rich client applications developed using
Microsoft Office or smart
client technologies).
The
program is mentored and managed by applying acquired skills towards building an
end to end solution. A Requirement Specifications, and other related documents
will be provided at the start of the program to each candidate.
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