Windows Azure Cases

2009.1.18

DPE Evangelist Intern

Eun Bee Song

*Windows Azure Cases

*Table of Contents

1. Migrated cases

2. Newly-made cases

3. Wrap up

1. Migrated cases

*3M VASWeb-based Visual Attention Service to heighten

design impact

1. Migrated Cases _ Case #1. 3M

*How it works

1. Migrated Cases _ Case #1. 3M

*To the Cloud

1. Migrated Cases _ Case #1. 3M

3M data center servers

UploadEvaluateReturn

CloudProcessing images and

returning near-immediate results

* Used the Windows Azure platform to deliver the VAS solution to customers, taking advantage of Microsoft data center infrastructure and service management to keep performance high and cost low

*Why Azure?

*Easy, Efficient Deployment- The similarities between Windows Azure and 3M’s Visual Studio development environment

*Lower Costs, High Scalability- Pay-as-you-use pricing model minimize hosting costs

- SQL Azure offer the VAS application to a global audience, without the expense of establishing and maintaining regional data

*Excellent Customer Solution- Users can open a web browser and analyze any number of files, straight from

their computer

1. Migrated Cases _ Case #1. 3M

*MOB Guardian(by AWS)an automated alerting system keeping fishing boats and individual crew members in continuous contact with its

search and rescue services

1. Migrated Cases _ Case #2. MOB Guardian

*How it works

1. Migrated Cases _ Case #2. MOB Guardian

*To the Cloud

AWS’s 15 Servers (distributed

across 2 UK data centers)

Only 10000 fishing vessels

Cloud100000~1000000↑

Broader geolocation service

1. Migrated Cases _ Case #2. MOB Guardian

*Why Azure?

1. Migrated Cases _ Case #2. MOB Guardian

*Massive Scalability

*Lower Infrastructure, Management Costs

*Faster Time-to-Market

*Sugar CRMprovides open-source customer relationship management

(CRM) software to customers and value-added resellers

1. Migrated Cases _ Case #3. Sugar CRM

*How it works

1. Migrated Cases _ Case #3. Sugar CRM

*very simple, straightforward but powerful CRM application that combines sales force automation, marketing automation, and customer support automation in one user interface.

*To the Cloud

On-premises , SaaS & Cloud

w/Amazon EC2)Cloud w/Azure

1. Migrated Cases _ Case #3. Sugar CRM

* To serve the unique needs of its customers, Sugar CRM wanted to ensure that its software would be available on as many technology platforms as possible.

*Why Azure?

*Familiar development tools

*Strong support for PHP to quickly port its open-source CRM application

*High-End Infrastructure in a Pay-As-You-Go Model

*Global Scalability

1. Migrated Cases _ Case #3. Sugar CRM

Achieved record year in terms of revenue, subscriptions and users, adding over 2,000 commercial customers

Expanded its international reach during 2009, conducting transactions in over 75 countries.

2. Newly-made cases

*Twtri.comWant your email, twitter or facebook to be updated with your

flight status? Grand Prize Winner of Microsoft new CloudApp() The Azure Services Platform Developer Challenge

2. Newly-made Cases _ Case #1. Twtri.com

*How it works

2. Newly-made Cases _ Case #1. Twtri.com

*Why Azure?

*Stable

*Easy to scale

*Suitable for large demand

*ASP .NET experience easy

2. Newly-made Cases _ Case #1. Twtri.com

Laith Yousif

*LifeTrackssocial networking service

2. Newly-made Cases _ Case #2. LifeTracks

*How it works

2. Newly-made Cases _ Case #2. LifeTracks

* tracks "what are you doing?" status with 2 added dimensions - text & multimedia and past/present/future timeline navigation

* http://lifetracks.cloudapp.net/

*Why Azure?

*Reliable - LifeTracks has run uninterrupted from 02/16/09 to 11/02/09, 259 days of rock solid uptime in the cloud (preview period)

*authenticates with Windows Live ID

2. Newly-made Cases _ Case #2. LifeTracks

*e monsters X Ray sharing x-rays online without any s/w

2. Newly-made Cases _ Case #3. e monsters X Ray

Microsoft new CloudApp() The Azure Services Platform Developer Challenge

*How it works

*Online tool for sharing x-rays without having to use the lengthy process of copying and mailing the image and installing s/w

http://xray.emonster.com

2. Newly-made Cases _ Case #3. e monsters X Ray

*Why Azure?

*Comprehensive cloud services platform

*Abstracts you from the infrastructure

*Connectivity to on-premises environments

*Rich client experiences with Live Services

2. Newly-made Cases _ Case #3. e monsters X Ray

3. Wrap Up

*Wrap up

*High Scalability

*Familiar development tools Efficient

*Suitable for large demand

*Wrap up

No IT

Really need IT

Migrated Cases Large

demand

Reliable

Newly-made cases