Mickey Williams talks about Architecting Large Systems with cloud storage
Mickey Williams of Neudesic talks about cloud computing and what it takes to get off the ground as small start up with Techzulu’s Geoffrey Emery. Azure Microsoft’s cloud computing platform is on the horizon for bringing a huge leap forward for startups in instant scalability at a fraction of the cost that you incur if you were to build your own datacenter. One of the things that Mickey brought up was Microsoft .NET services in the sky which hasn’t been talked about as much. BizTalk another Microsoft product that Mickey brought up is a technology for connecting multiple interfaces that don’t have a inherent communication protocol. There are now offering this in form in cloud and calling a service bus. The Microsoft .NET services (or the BizTalk Services as it was previously called) allows enterprises to expose their services to the internet from within a firewall without having to setup a DMZ or allow explicit inbound access to the machines. It used the concept of Relay Binding (extension over the existing WCF) to allow access to the services. Allowing disparate systems to be interconnected through the internet, the .NET services sets up an internet service bus in the Microsoft cloud. See image Below
Getting interfaces to talk to each other through firewalls using the internet and secure socket layer alone is really powerful.
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Links in Video
Mickey’s Blog – http://blogs.neudesic.com/blogs/mickey_williams/default.aspx
Azure – http://www.microsoft.com/azure/
BizTalk – http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/default.aspx
WCF – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa663324.aspx
