Cloud computing has been latest buzz in the way storage and services are provided. Many IT giants like Google, Microsoft are working in development of Cloud Services. While Google has been working with Chromium OS, Microsoft has plans with Windows Azure. To make IT-Pros & Users more familiar about cloud computing M$ has released a free ebook on Cloud Computing.
Windows Azure platform is created to help developers write, distribute and manage Web application and Web services on the Internet. Azure provides on-demand computation and storage services that allows Web applications to scale them on Internet simply by changing the configuration parameters. Azure is an operating system for the cloud, using which developers can host and manage their applications as services onWindows Azure platform.
DUG is now having an event for Students only. This time sepcially for student we are presenting 3 sessions which are will be delivering by 3 MSPs (Rishu Mehra, Amit Khilnaney & Rahat Khanna). Sessions will be on Windows 7, IE8 Customization with IEAK & Windows Azure.
For registration: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=142720
Venue:
5th Floor, Microsoft’s Office,
Eros Croporate Tower,
Nehru Place, New Delhi,
Pin – 110019
Date: 31st October (Saturday), 2009
Timings: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
, SharePoint, xRM, Windows 7, Windows Server, and more. For more necessary details regarding the registration for PDC09 they can be found on Microsoft’s PDC site, where more info on the sessions at the conference is also available. 
The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is Microsoft’s premier gathering of leading-edge developers and architects.Registrations for Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2009 have been opened,as we mentioned earlier the event would be held in Los Angeles, from on November 16 and end on November 19.
The agenda have sessions on SQL Azure, Silverlight, Windows Azure, Office
Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft data centers.
Azure Services Platform is an application platform in the cloud that allows applications to be hosted and run at Microsoft datacenters. It provides a cloud operating system called Windows Azure that serves as a runtime for the applications and provides a set of services that allows development, management and hosting of managed applications off-premises.All Azure Services and applications built using them run on top of Windows Azure.
Windows Azure can rather be said a version of Windows that runs over the Internet from inside Microsoft’s own data centers.
