How to improve Azure application migration

If Azure is only running on Windows, is it faster and easier to deploy Windows applications to Azure from a server? The answer is not certain.

When Windows Virtual Server is running on Azure, you can also use Remote Desktop to log in and view. The code for ASP.NET running on Azure is exactly the same as running it locally. But to get our attention, Azure instances are stateless and have to reside on Azure Storage Services. Storage, entities, and attributes are non-associated services in Azure tables. Azure blobs can be arbitrary binary data and can be distributed via web services. One version of the Microsoft SQL Server relational database is SQL Azure.

Reliable but expensive

Although SQL Azure may be the obvious choice, it is expensive. The current table stores $ 0.15 per GB per month, plus $ 0.01 per 10,000 queries. A 1GB database on SQL Azure costs $ 9.99 a month, while a 50GB month costs $ 499.95. Usually people will choose table storage, which means more applications porting. Can not run the application on a stateless power? There is a solution, but Ken is not what you expect. However, deploying an Azure instance creates an important image. Azure runs a previously created image for recovery if something goes wrong.

Middleware

Middleware is a tricky issue, and Azure has its own middleware, called AppFabric, which provides a service bus for controlling services and caching services. As Azure matures, the proportion of middleware tasks is growing, but the issue of migration remains to be solved.

While Microsoft said it is possible to migrate applications to Azure, it's not that easy. Though Networks CTO Nick Hines said migrating to Azure was not easy, and the company found that SQL Azure was not compatible with SQL Server.

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