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Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Automation introduces a fairly new feature of Microsoft Azure called Azure Automation. Using a highly scalable workflow execution environment, Azure Automation allows you to orchestrate frequent deployment and life cycle management tasks using runbooks based on Windows PowerShell Workflow functionality. …
Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure introduces developers and IT professionals to the wide range of capabilities in Azure. The authors—both Microsoft MVPs in Azure—present conceptual and how-to content for seven key areas and describe management tools and business cases. …
Learn how to use Microsoft Windows Azure to quickly and simply host data-driven websites. Author Kyle Burns will guide you through everything you need to know to succeed in developing cloud computing enabled web sites. …
Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure: Best practices for DevOps, data storage, high availability, and more walks you through a patterns-based approach to building real-world cloud solutions. The patterns apply to the development process as well as to architecture and coding practices. …
Master the higher-level languages and other features necessary to process data with HDInsight. Learn how to set up and manage HDInsight clusters on Azure, how to use Azure Blob Storage to store input and output data, connect with Microsoft BI, and much more. With the guidance of author James Beresford, HDInsight Succinctly will reveal a new avenue of data management. …
Containing twenty-four design patterns and ten related guidance topics, this guide articulates the benefit of applying patterns by showing how each piece can fit into the big picture of cloud application architectures. It also discusses the benefits and considerations for each pattern. Most of the patterns have code samples or snippets that show how to implement the patterns using the features of Windows Azure. …
Introducing Microsoft Azure HDInsight is intended to help database and business intelligence (BI) professionals, programmers, Hadoop administrators, researchers, technical architects, operations engineers, data analysts, and data scientists understand the core concepts of HDInsight and related technologies. …
Introducing Windows Azure for IT Professionals, written by Mitch Tulloch with the Windows Azure Team, is the latest free eBook from Microsoft Press. It’s currently available in pdf format only and links to ePub and Mobi versions will be posted here once they are available. …
Download Windows Azure SQL Reporting Succinctly: Develop, manage, and access reports through the cloud., by Stacia Misner, in pdf and mobi formats. …
“Building Hybrid Applications in the Cloud on Windows Azure” is the 3rd release of Windows Azure Guidance from Microsoft. This guide provides in-depth guidance on how to architect and build hybrid solutions on and with the Windows Azure platform. …