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How to Use OData for SQL Azure with AppFabric Access Control
[Created – April 16, 2010] [Updated – October 5, 2010 – Revised text and URIs to refer to ACS production, since ACS Labs is now running ACS v2.] Looking for a way to expose data in SQL Azure to web...
View ArticleSilverlight Clients and AppFabric Access Control
As described in my previous post, I’ve just finished building some Silverlight clients and a portal for the new OData service for SQL Azure using AppFabric Access Control (ACS). In the process, I ran...
View ArticleSilverlight Samples for OData Over SQL Azure
I’ve just published a some code samples that show how to build a Silverlight client for the OData Service for SQL Azure, and how to build a service that validates Secure Web Tokens (SWTs) issued by...
View ArticleFabrikamJets Example Updated (Really)
I just discovered that the 2.0 release of the Fabrikam Jets example on code gallery (described in this blog post) contained the original version 1.0 code that worked with OAuth WRAP v0.8, instead of...
View ArticleRemembering Steve by Remembering NeXT
Last week, JJ Dubray asked me to write something about NeXT in Steve’s honor for InfoQ. It’s part of a post about Steve with thoughts from several people, including Eric Schmidt and Tim Berners-Lee. My...
View ArticleBusiness Continuity On Azure
Azure customers want their services to be continuously available to their users, despite component failures, platform degradations and data center outages. In other words, they want business...
View ArticleBusiness Continuity Basics
This post describes the basics of business continuity. Business continuity poses both business and technical challenges. In this series, we focus on the technical challenges, which include failure...
View ArticleHigh Availability On The Azure Platform
Currently, both Windows Azure and SQL Azure offer high availability within a single data center. As long as a data center remains operational and accessible from the Internet, services hosted there can...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery
While the Azure platform provides high availability within a single data center, as discussed in the previous post, it currently does not explicitly support or enable disaster recovery or...
View ArticleGeographically Distributed High Availability
This is the last post in the series on business continuity. It briefly describes how the service developer can provide geographically distributed high availability on the Azure platform. The Azure...
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