Development of matching between Azure and Windows Server 8

The mysterious backdrop covering Windows Server 8 and Azure has been uncovered. It is followed by a higher degree of symmetry between cloud computing and virtualized High Availability infrastructure, and improved storage functions, and the Azure toolkit that promises to help enterprises easily develop Azure services and deploy them to end users.

The final design goal of Windows 8 is to provide a stronger foundation for the Windows Azure platform and strive to achieve high availability HA) clusters to promote "scale encapsulation ", in addition, the features of high-performance computing Windows Server 2008 R2 are retained.

This means that the DevOps team will need professional knowledge and new features of Window 8 to maximize the return on investment in public cloud computing, private cloud computing, and hybrid cloud computing.

Windows 8 will include a new disk storage architecture called a storage pool and storage space upgrade. If Satya Nadella, president of the server and tool business of Microsoft, was announced in the keynote speech of this BUILD meeting. The storage pool integrates multiple commercial disk drives into independent JBOD (simple disk group) units and binds them with Windows for simplified management. The same functions can be implemented for the storage space of virtual machines.

Azure also saw the benefits of storage improvement sharing. Its team member, Brad Calder, outlined in the section "exploring Windows Azure storage: Driving new content:

• Cloud backup helps achieve disaster recovery and provides a new version of rest api for Windows Azure Binary Large Object blob), forms, and queue functions.
• The Upsert table allows you to send a single request to Windows Azure to insert an entity when the entity does not exist, or to update and replace an existing entity.
• Query projection selection) Table allows the client to obtain a subset of object attributes. You can reduce the cost and bandwidth used to obtain entity serialization/deserialization to improve system performance.
• Improved blob HTTP headers support secondary stream applications and browser downloads.
• When the system processes message updates to track the processing progress, the queue UpdateMessage allows clients to lease messages and update leases.
• The queue InsertMessage with the visibility timeout attribute allows a newly inserted message to remain invisible in the queue until the timeout expires.

Windows 8 client development tools

For more information about Windows 8 applications and Visual Studio 2011 Express programming, see Windows 8 client Developer Tools. The MSDN subscriber can also download Window 8 Server from the developer's network. In addition to the operating system, the Developer Preview includes the following content:

• Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express previewed by Windows developers
• Microsoft Expression Blend 5 Developer Preview
• Windows SDK for Metro applications
• 28 Metro applications including BUILD meeting Applications

Windows Azure developers may want to download and install Windows Azure toolkit for Windows 8 from CodePlex. According to CodePlex:

"All the tools in this Toolkit make it easier for users to develop a Windows Azure service and deploy it to your users. In addition to the documentation, This toolkit includes Visual Studio project templates for sample Metro applications and a Windows Azure cloud computing project. This tool is designed to accelerate development so that developers can use Windows 8 features, such as notifications, in their applications with minimal time and experience. You can use this toolkit to build and customize your own services and provide a wide range of Metro applications ."

Windows Azure AppFabric service bus and Azure TFS also include the following improvements:

• Asynchronous cloud computing events allow developers to distribute Event Notifications to occasionally connected clients, such as telephones, remote networks, and public phone boxes.
• The event-driven service architecture enables you to build loosely coupled systems over time.
• Advanced internal messaging of applications provides load balancing and load balancing, so developers can build highly scalable and elastic applications.

Both developers and operators are enthusiastic about the new features of Windows 8 Server and their contributions to the future Windows Azure upgrade.

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