Developers are rapidly adopting Microsoft Windows Azure as their cloud. Because it is based on Windows and .NET, it presents a high degree of compatibility with their existing applications, making it easy to move an application to the cloud.
There are two key phases that an application usually goes through as it is moved to the cloud. The first is changing as little as possible so that it works as-is in Microsoft Azure, just changing what HAS to be changed to make it work. The second phase is to then upgrade elements of the application to take advantage of some of the unique capabilities Microsoft Azure has to offer.
In this article we are going to discuss some of the issues that might come up while you are trying to achieve phase 1, just getting it to work. Most migration projects start with a sort of 'cloud fit' analysis that helps you identity what parts might need some work to make a migration possible. While you are doing this it is important to understand your systems architecture, and attempt to minimize any code changes you will have to make. This is exactly the time you will start jumping for joy that you built your system with a complete suite of unit tests.
Read more about using Windows Azure to migrate to the cloud at Internet.com CodeGuru website.
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