Windows Azure Videos

Mike Taulty interviews Chris Lintott and Arfon Smith about the GalaxyZoo project.  GalaxyZoo, hosted on GalaxyZoo.org,  invites individuals to participate in Citizen Science and provides an easy to use interface for classifying galaxies.    Chris talks about the Galaxy Zoo and Citizen Science, followed by Arfon talking about the platform behind the project, and it’s migration from Rails/MySQL  on Amazon to Windows Azure/SQL Azure.

Siemens, a Microsoft Partner, is using Azure for a remote service use case. By using Azure, Siemens doesn’t need to create a new IT department to manage clusters all over the world: Azure spins up the instances. This allows Siemens to only worry about computation, and Microsoft addresses the hardware, people, and IT costs. Gerald Kaefer, Siemens Architect, explains...

Manuvir Das discusses the current state of Windows Azure. The last time we spoke was at last year's PDC when we announced Azure to the world. Here, we dig into hat's new today with Azure. How have people used Azure over the past year? What worked? What didn't work? Tune in. It's always great to chat with Manuvir and there's a lot of great info in this conversation.

Yousef Khalidi is a Distinguished Engineer with a rich history in both operating system design and distributed computing. Yousef is responsible for the overall design of Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud operating system (which includes the Azure development platform in addition to the "OS", aka Windows Azure). Windows Azure is an operating system in the sense that it supplies a host of core services, process scheduling and management, identity management, etc, that we typically expect from a general purpose operating system. In this first installment of C9 Conversations (we sit down with various Microsoft technical leaders to discuss a wide range of topics related to general purpose computing; all in high quality video and audio (big thanks to Tina Summerford for producing this new series)), the topic is cloud computing. What is it, exactly? Why does it matter? What are the challenges involved in taking software to the cloud? What does that mean, exactly? Is Windows Azure an operating system by analogy? What is Windows Azure, exactly? And more.. Yousef will be presenting his ideas on cloud computing and its future at PDC09 as part of the Technical Leaders track. Make sure to attend his talk if you're interested in how Microsoft thinks about the future of cloud computing.

In our previous episode, Vijay Rajagopalan shared with us some of the details about a session he did at MIX09 which showed how Microsoft was providing support for building Silverlight applications using Eclipse on either Windows or even on other platforms as well. In today’s episode Vijay shares with us the details regarding some new interoperability support which will similarly allow PHP developers to use the Eclipse IDE to develop for and deploy to Windows Azure, and provide Java developers with a new Windows Azure SDK, making their life much easier when they use Windows Azure storage services in particular. He’ll also describe how Microsoft is working to make sure that Eclipse itself is a great Windows 7 application and how it will enable developers to write applications which can take full advantage of special Windows 7 features.   And you can find more information about these interoperability tools here: Microsoft to foster Eclipse and Microsoft platform interoperability Eclipse Tools for Windows Azure for PHP Windows Azure Software Developer Kit (SDK) for Java Eclipse Tools for Silverlight

Zum Windows 7 Launch heute ein Interview mit den beiden Windows Product Marketing Managern Ben Basaric und Thorsten Stockmann. Sie berichten über Produktfeatures, die vielfältigen Aktivitäten im Vorfeld der Markteinführung und über ihre größten Laster: das sind die, von denen in diesen Tagen palettenweise das neue Betriebssystem wegverkauft wird. In den Kurznachrichten News zur Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, zur Versionskontrolle mit dem “Visual Source Safe”-Nachfolger Team Foundation Server Basic Installation, zu neuen SharePoint-Tutorials bei “MSDN Solve”, einem MSDN-Gewinnspiel rund um Windows Azure und zur Windows Azure Premiere beim Cloud Launch Day 2009 im November. Zum Schluss noch ein Hinweis für Cineasten: unser Interviewpartner Ben Basaric ist auch Akteur in vier Aufsehen erregenden LowCost-Werbevideos „Wir lieben Windows 7“, die es in den Geschmacksrichtungen Ei, Käse, Gemüse und Villarriba auf www.youtube.com zu sehen gibt. msdn tv verkörpert ein neues Video-Nachrichtenformat, und hat seinen Ursprung auf MSDN Online (http://www.msdn-online.de/msdntv/). Alle zwei Wochen präsentiert Ihnen Jan Schenk, Developer Evangelist mit Hut, die wichtigsten Neuigkeiten für Entwickler, Hintergrundberichte und Interviews zu aktuellen Technologien sowie Highlights von Messen und Konferenzen. Das ganze kompakt, in weniger als 15 Minuten erfrischend jung verpackt , und sowohl als Download für Ihren Rechner oder im Online-Player per Streaming. msdn tv is a German-speaking new and innovative video news series, and has originally been featured exclusively on the German MSDN Online Platform (http://www.msdn-online.de/msdntv/). Hatted Developer Evangelist Jan Schenk biweekly presents latest news for developers, background-stories and interviews concerning current and upcoming technologies, as well as video-highlights from fairs and conferences. Packed into less than 15 minutes, these news videos feature a fresh informative style, and are downloadable as well as available per streaming online player.

“If I ruled the world”, says David Chappell, “I would make the phrase ‘private cloud’ illegal”. In conversation with David Gristwood, David Chappell, during his recent world tour, discusses Windows Azure, its importance and role in the partner ecosystem, and other cloud players, such as Google, Amazon, Salesforce.com, VMware and more.