1. Windows Azure SDK 1.7 and New Features
Udaiappa Ramachandran NHDN-Cloud Computing UG Lead Blog:

2. Agenda New SDK 1.7 Portal Enhancement Storage Enhancement
Server Explorer
Cloud Services
Web Sites
Virtual machines
SQL Database
Cache

3. New SDK 1.7 Delivered thru Nuget Open Source Service Client API
Already a release of storage client 1.7.1

4. New Portal http://windows.azure.com – Old Portal

5. Storage Feature
Local Storage
Geo-replicated Storage

6. Server Explorer Right from Visual Studio 2010 or 2012
Service Bus explorer
Storage Explorer

7. Cloud Services Build infinitely scalable apps and services
support rich multi-tier architectures
automated application management
focus on the app not the infrastructure

8. Web Sites Shared mode/ reserved mode
Build with ASP.NET, Node.js or PHP
Deploy in seconds with FTP, GIt or TFS
Start for free, Scale up as your traffic grows
10 free websites

9. Virtual Machines windows Server and Linux Flexible Workload Support
Virtual Private Networking (Hardware/Software based)
Virtual machine portability --Hyper V (WA<-->Data Center), no lock in
VM with persistent drive

10. Focus on the Application

11. SQL Database Relational SQL Server Engine in the Cloud
Clustered for high availability
Fully managed Service
SQL Reporting support

12. Cache Low latency, in-memory distributed cache
Dynamically grow and shrink cache size
High avaialblity support
Memcached protocol support

13. Announcement

14. Resource
Windows Azure

15. Q & A