On Infoworld we found latest IT news, Microsoft adds app, data marketplace to Windows Azure, By Eric Lai
Microsoft said today that its upcoming Windows Azure
cloud computing platform will come with marketplaces for both online apps built
to run on Azure as well as datasets that companies can use to build their own
apps.
PinPoint.com will host business-oriented apps developed
by Microsoft partners, chief software architect Ray Ozzie said during a keynote
speech at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2009 (PDC09) in Los
Angeles.
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PinPoint will compete with Salesforce.com's
four-year-old AppExchange online marketplace and other more recently emerging
app stores.
Azure
will also host "an open catalog and
marketplace for public and commercial data" code-named Dallas, Ozzie said.
Developers can use the data to build their own services and mashups. Dallas is
now in Commercial Technical Preview.
Microsoft is also bolstering Azure with management
tools for developers running .Net apps on-premises and with Azure that are less
sexy, but arguably more essential.
Windows Azure
, meanwhile, will officially go into
production on January 1, but customers won't be billed until February 1, Ozzie
said. Azure will be hosted at three pairs of data centers: Chicago and San
Antonio for North America, Dublin and Amsterdam for Europe, and Singapore and
Hong Kong for Asia.
Azure will compete with Salesforce, Amazon.com, and
many other cloud platform providers. The key difference is that Azure, rather
than dumping the desktop entirely for the Web, keeps the Windows operating
system in the equation.
This vision of "three screens and the cloud"
will allow developers to build apps that can be reused and delivered via the cloud
(Windows Azure), on-premises server (Windows Server), or desktop (Windows 7),
depending on what is most convenient or offers the best performance, Ozzie
said.
To demonstrate how far Windows Azure
has come,
Microsoft enlisted the aid of some traditional antagonists: Silicon Valley
startups and the federal government. San Francisco-based Automattic is using
Azure to host parts of its popular Wordpress blogging platform, said founder
Matt Mullenweg. Another San Franciso startup, Seesmic, is building a Twitter
app running on Windows using Microsoft's Silverlight rich media player, said
CEO Loic LeMeur.
NASA is releasing 3D imagery from the Mars rover
vehicle for free to the general public via the Dallas data feed. Federal CIO
Vivek Kundra said the government plans to accelerate the release of more data
to the public. He likened the potential "explosion" of apps to the
one that followed after the U.S. government liberalized the availability of GPS
data.
To demonstrate that Azure can scale to needs, Microsoft's
president of its Server & Tools Division, Bob Muglia, cited its Bing search
app, which runs on more than 100,000 servers. Muglia also announced Project
Sydney, which will allow companies to connect their own servers to Azure-based
services. Sydney will go into beta next year.
Finally, Muglia announced a beta of an application
server for Windows Server called AppFabric. AppFabric will help developers
manage both on-premises servers and Azure cloud-based services. It includes
features from the Dublin app server and the Velocity caching technology.
AppFabric will go into beta next year.
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