David Chow Talks about Microsoft’s New Cloud Computing Platform Azure
TechZulu’s Geoffrey Emery interviews Microsoft Architecture Evangelist David Chow at the PDC Underground. What is a Architect Evangelist? ITs a person who specializes in a Microsoft Technology and helps other Architects in the business world find the right answers and the right people for the job at hand. David’s current Technology Platform is Microsoft Cloud Computing project known as Azure. David describes to us how the cloud will help us extend out our current architecture from the internal data center out onto the cloud giving the enterprise environment more flexibility and a robust disaster recover model. He also explains that by taking our datacenters to the cloud we are given the ability to scale horizontally instantaneously with only minor costs increases. David firmly believes that this form of computing will democratize the way the internet works allowing everyone to host and scale as if they were a Amazon or EBay size webiste. It is truly a exciting time for the internet community as cloud computing is bringing in a age of cheaper hosting and easing designing for a architecture of scale. Look for this and more in this very exciting interview.
Topic Links
Microsoft Azure – http://azure.com
Microsoft Silver light – http://silverlight.com
Microsoft Public Devoloper Confrence – http://microsoftpdc.com
Davids blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/dachou/
PDC Undergound – http://underground.socalcodecamp.com/
