Service Bus EAI and EDI

Back in December (2011), Microsoft released the Azure Service Bus EAI & EDI Labs.  This is a sort of CTP with labs.

It’s built on top of AppFabric Service Bus, but seems to contain much more than raw messaging.

According to the MSDN documentation, it seems that a lot of BizTalk concepts were re-used.  For instance, look at a...

Azure Roadmap 2012

As other news about Azure spring 2012 roadmap are getting public, I am now at liberty of discussing them.

Here are the highlights:

• As I discussed in a previous blog, Windows Azure will support Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), i.e. stateful VM roles.
• %99.9 availability for single instances ; this is interesting since so...

Discovering the full potential of PaaS

You can read my latest blog post on CGI’s blog here.

Continuing with Platform as a Service (PaaS), I talk about the specific strengths of PaaS (vs IaaS) and the types of scenarios it enables.

IaaS coming to Windows Azure

As I wrote in my last blog, VM roles aren’t an IaaS offering.

The good news is that IaaS really is coming to Windows Azure.

I got the news during a Microsoft training and was under Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA), but…  the news got public, so let’s talk about it.

Microsoft should release (soon in CTP?) an IaaS offering. ...

VM roles aren’t IaaS

Back in October 2010 I wrote about the PDC 2010 that the VM Role was bringing IaaS in the Windows Azure offering.

Well, I was wrong:  VM role isn’t IaaS at all.

Why?

VM roles VMs are stateless as Web & Worker roles are.

This means you provide a .vhd to Azure ; when the VM gets instantiated, the...