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Microsoft SQL Azure Enterprise Application Development

You're reading from   Microsoft SQL Azure Enterprise Application Development Moving business applications and data to the cloud can be a smooth operation when you use this practical guide. Learn to make the most of SQL Azure and acquire the knowledge to build enterprise-ready applications.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849680806
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jayaram Krishnaswamy Jayaram Krishnaswamy
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Microsoft SQL Azure: Enterprise Application Development
Credits
About the Author
1. Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Cloud Computing and Microsoft Azure Services Platform FREE CHAPTER 2. SQL Azure Services 3. Working with SQL Azure Databases from Visual Studio 2008 4. SQL Azure Tools 5. Populating SQL Azure Databases 6. SSIS and SSRS Applications Using SQL Azure 7. Working with Windows Azure Hosting 8. Database Applications on Windows Azure Platform Accessing SQL Server Databases 9. Synchronizing SQL Azure 10. Recent Developments

What is cloud computing?


Cloud computing is still evolving and perhaps one of the more enduring, all embracing, definition of cloud computing may be defined according to the NIST (http://csrc.nist.gov/nice/states/maryland/posters/cloud-computing.pdf)as follows:

"Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction."

The resources, as it is implied here, would include not only the hardware but also the software that cloud computing would use.

The industry watchdog Gartner (http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1035013) on the other hand defines cloud computing as follows:

"Cloud computing is a style of computing where scalable and elastic IT-enabled capabilities are delivered as a service to external customers using Internet technologies."

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Microsoft SQL Azure Enterprise Application Development
Published in: Dec 2010
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781849680806
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