Looking for more information on applications running on Windows Azure
I have an application that requires a lot of data storage (say some PB) and computational resources. Instead of going for clusters, I plan to suggest using Windows Azure Cloud for this application. I went through the white papers of Windows Azure and gathered some details about Azure. But I feel that this is not essential. I need to do some research examples of applications running on azure and uses azure storage effectively. I've searched for several research papers related to application performance in Windows Azure. But since Azure was brand new, I couldn't find it.
Now I am looking for some white papers / details regarding an application using azure storage to substantiate my proposal. I also need to understand the storage architecture and the Windows Azure architecture.
Does anyone know of any research articles, details or blogs or anything related to these topics.
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The purpose of this site is to present the results of regular tests on the Windows Azure platform. These tests are designed to help you develop and deploy your research applications and services on Azure. The test suite includes tests for data transfer rate, response time, and capacity. Each benchmark is run against a variety of test cases designed with common use cases for Azure development in mind.
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Like any new technology at Microsoft, azure has a lot of documentation on the internet for the beta windows azure and a few for the current version, and early adopters are not inclined to write a lot. The documentation I've read so far helped me understand the azure:
Windows Azure Spreadsheet - Storage of programming tables
Windows Azure Blob - Programming Memory Blob
Windows Azure storage allows 100TB per subscription. A person / company can have any number of followers. I think the harder issue is not the size of the data, but the movement of the data.
Getting 100TB in Azure will take a while, PB 10x longer.
As long as the access keys are available (or the store allows anonymous access), compute resources running under any subscription can access any store.
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