Developing Cloud Applications with Windows Azure™ Storage

Introduction

Windows Azure storage provides independent data management services to your application, that is, data storage for any application, on any platform capable of making an HTTP request, written in any programming language, and deployed to the cloud or hosted in your own data center. Windows Azure storage provides a rich set of features that your applications can take advantage of to achieve operating characteristics that might otherwise be unobtainable because these characteristics were too complex, cumbersome, time-consuming, or expensive to implement. Not every application will require this set of features offered by the data management service; however, most will benefit from at least a few of them. It’s hard to imagine an application ...