Azure itself is imo PaaS and not IaaS. Do you agree? MS gurantees an availability of 99% and a strong consistency. You can find MS SLAs here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/sla (three SLAs Uptime: http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/4889/unbenanntqt.png ) I can't find anyhing about how they are going to archive that. Do they do b...
What tools are available for viewing and managing Azure storage tables and queues - and which do you recommend? ...
Hi, I have read about Windows Azure but to get deeper into this technology, I need to (obviously) use it. I have a small ASP.NET site which gets little traffic and I am thinking that hosting this on Azure would save me money. Other than this, what other factors would contribute to a project being suitable for the cloud? Thanks ...
I am looking to build a new website using Windows Azure and SQL Azure. Does anyone know of any commerical or free CMS systems that I can use as the Web Role and that will connect and use SQL Azure as the storage? ...
Hi All, I'm going to sound like a complete newbie here but here goes... I've just signed up for a Windows Azure account and was hoping to get a simple hello world aspx page up and running in a browser to see how it all works but I can't seem to find a simple guide to getting a very simple web application running. I've got as far as se...
Since I am writing a seminar work on "Transaction Processing in MS Azure" for my university I wanted to launch a bank-transfer simulation. I already have implemented a getting-started thingy to get familiar with Azure: http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/dhananjaycoder/48/Default.aspx . Question: What is the most easy way (using SQL ...
Hi all, i have an idea of putting my blog on to Azure instead of a regular webhosting company. The only thing i cannot figure out is if that will be cheaper or not. The good part is the getting-knowledge of Azure but on the other hand it is my personal blog and i really don't wanna spend to much money on it. So do you have any idea of h...
Hello, I've been using Windows Azure to create a document management system, and things have gone well so far. I've been able to upload and download files to the BLOB storage through an asp.net front end. What I'm attempting to do now is allow users to upload a .zip file, and then take the files out of that .zip and save them as indi...
We need to think big and our applications need to scale in order to work on the Windows Azure Platform. But how do I simulate a crash of one of the VMs running my application? I want to see (debug) how my application behaves in such environment. ...
Hi, we have a ASP.NET web application which makes use of NHibernate and Spring.NET (to do the session and transaction management stuff). Now we want to port parts of it to a Windows Azure application without making lots of changes to the used components. I already found this article of stackoverflow so I hope to get NHibernate running ...
In the REST interface for Azure blobs, when you request a list of blobs there is a parameter for specifying that you want to list snapshots. Has this been exposed anywhere in the .Net client? ...
I want to use blob-leasing mechanism in my Windows Azure cloud app. I am using the StorageClient api released by Azure team for my blob transactions. However, the blob-leasing is not implemented in the StorageClient api and hence I need to implement it on my own. Has anyone done this before and has any pointers on how to do it? Thanks....
I am working on Windows Azure. I followed some tutorial about how to store text file on to the blob of windows azure. I am successful in uploading the data. Now, I wanted to access the file. I mean, I have to read the content of the file and display it.... Can anyone tell me, How to do that... Thanks, in advance... ...
I followed a tutorial on creating a blob on windows azure. But when I do that, I get an exception error: Error while creating containerThe server encountered an unknown failure: The remote server returned an error: (300) Ambiguous Redirect. The code is : private void SetContainersAndPermission() { try { ...
I know that Amazon EC2 gives out a 'cloud' platform -- ie. A virtualized instance of a Linux or Windows box. However, I can't find other (large!) vendors doing this? For example, I tried Microsoft Azure, and it doesn't seem to issue out boxes, but just the development platforms or service platforms (ie database, exchange etc.) Am I miss...
I am attempting to update an entry in Azure Table Storage. The function is: public void SaveBug(DaBug bug) { bug.PartitionKey = "bugs"; bug.Timestamp = DateTime.UtcNow; if (bug.RowKey == null || bug.RowKey == string.Empty) { bug.RowKey = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();...
I am writing a small computation program with lot of read operations on blob files... Should I have to go for worker role or a web role.... ...
I wanted to create some subdirectories inside my blob. But it is not working out well Here is my code protected void ButUpload_click(object sender, EventArgs e) { // store upladed file as a blob storage if (uplFileUpload.HasFile) { name = uplFileUpload.FileName; // get refernce to the...
I am writing a program that will be executing on the cloud. The program will generate an output that should be written on to a file and the file should be saved on the blob container. I don't have a idea of how to do that Will this code FileStream fs = new FileStream(file, FileMode.Create); StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(...
How to create a sub directory in a blob container for example, in my blob container http://veda.blob.core.windows.net/document/ If I store some files it will be http://veda.blob.core.windows.net/document/1.txt http://veda.blob.core.windows.net/document/2.txt Now, how to create a sub directory http://veda.blob.core.windo...