Learning windows azure: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/windowsazure/learn
Why Cloud
-Save time and money
-Enable new scenarios
Windows Azure
-Usage Based
-Automated
-restful API
-Managed resources
-Always up, Always on
-Elastic
-Economics
-Provision Virtual Servers
-Deploy App Code
-Configure Network
Infinite Scale
Pay only what you use
Cloud Computing Pattern
-On and Off
-Growing Fast
-Unpredictable Bursting
-Predictable Bursting
Foucs on app not infrustruction
Building Blocks
-Storage
-Messaging
-Security/Identity
-Caching
-CDN
-Networking
Everything write to disk has 3 relics