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Azure SQL Database is a managed cloud database-as-a-service. It provides application developers with SQL Server databases which are hosted in the cloud and fully managed by Microsoft. The service is very easy to start with. Several clicks in the portal and you have a database running. Now you can copy the connection string to your application config file, and boom - you have all up and running. No installation, no license to buy - just pay the hourly fee. Any production database is a very important asset, so we are used to give it a good care in self-hosted scenario. A number of questions appear when you try to apply those practices to the cloud offering: How do I make a backup of my database? Where should I store it? How do I move my database including schema and data from on-premise to the cloud? How do I move it from the cloud to my local server? What is a point-in-time restore offered by Azure? Should I use geo-replication? What is geo-restore? In this post I'll

Use cases of Cloud in terms of Media, Distribution and Analytics. You take any cloud you have media sharing and media distribution services. Azure has CDN, AWS has CDN, Azure has Streaming Service, AWS has streaming services. AWS will give you the bit torrent option also. It will give you the bit torrent download urls for storage as well. NEXTFlix is the most popular implementation of it. Academic computing, uses the CDN and storage for their Lab data etc. Search Engine: Why are we talking about search engine here in media and distribution services, the reason is today the way we use search engine is totally different, if you look at google, yahoo these are the example of web content search engines. Those days are gone, today's search are not my content as are form of web content. so normal search engine can't search these content (unstructured). If you will look today at your contents- are in form of no SQL data, example you look at any social n/w ing site, your data

Hadoop is a big data management and massive storage solution Any social networking requires tow things a) a powerfull search engine and Masshive storage popular seach engines are Lucine is appache product, and solar(solar has licence, solar enterprice and solar community eddition), Elastic(is open source there is no commercial eddition) There are many usecaces wher ppl are using Hadoop as a storage and elastic search as a processing engine Default storage in Azure is called Table sotrage and in amazon we have Dynmo DB for no sql. Apart from that there different cloud for no sql like Mango cloud, we hace casendra, Amazon has native support for elastic, you can create vm of elastic, MySQL is free right, yes, there is IBM product called websphere commerce server, it is ecom product, at the backend they uses solar, Its commercial virsion they have customized solar and developed WebSphere. Even you are goaing for opensource ...you have to pay for support anywhere. Salesforce(CR