Summary
Learn how to take advantage of Azure features in SharePoint
There are 3 areas where you can leverage the cloud computing power
of Azure:
- Reach - you can deploy custom WCF services (optionally secured by Access Control Service) to take the burden off your data center. This is especially useful if your application is performing intensive tasks like image processing or transcoding. The same services can be acessed by a variety of devices such as the phone, PC and the Web.
- Resource - by taking advantage of the CDN, Windows Azure storage (Tables and Blobs) or Sql Azure, you can gain dramatic performance enhancements as well lower storage requirements for your SharePoint assets. A really great product for this is StoragePoint, which leverages the RBS provider to "outsource" storage to Windows Azure BLOB store. More details here. By leveraging remote file storage, such as Windows Azure BLOB storage and data management in SQL Azure, you can reduce resource costs, and at the same time providing greater value to customers with effective solutions.
- Reusability - you can build one set of services to target multiple devices (web, phone, tablet/pad and PC) and get the maximum value out of your investment
Click here to download the SharePoint and Windows Azure Development Kit
Keywords: Microsoft Azure SharePoint 2010