Windows Azure Mobile Applications
Windows Azure Mobile Applications are growing exponentially and will augment and enhance how everyone uses their mobile devices. Windows Azure Mobile Applications also offer data safety and security. Much more safety and security than traditional mobile platforms and services… Through the growth of this mobile platform the user has found that almost anything that can be achieved on a personal computer can also be done on their mobile device. However, with this being said, there is still a large void in an otherwise ideal platform. Data takes up space. It is a simple fact that cannot be ignored. With the user needing more storage for music, video, pictures, email, contact information and additional uses too numerous to mention here, it has become the mission of the developer to offer a flexible and fast approach to the storage of user data.
Windows Azure offers a simplistic interface to cloud storage. Using the basic technologies of IaaS and PaaS, the application programmer can offer almost limitless storage and a system of data manipulation at the infrastructure level that will safeguard even the most robust enterprise application. Some of the simplest of applications are mentioned in the following paragraphs.
One of the single most devastating moments for a user’s mobile device is when trying to synchronize the data between device and platform. There has been more than one occasion the mobile device will reset itself before the data has been synchronized. In addition, the process of synchronization can in fact send data in the wrong direction and several days, month’s even years of irreplaceable data can be destroyed, and perhaps unrecoverable. Although there are methods for recovering lost data, the means used to do so can void warranties, and are not a guarantee that the data will be recovered. Using Windows Azure is a perfect complement for all data backup and storage needs. Using Windows Azure for Websites, a developer could easily write an application that not only backs up all pertinent data on one of its many data centers throughout the world but can offer an easy restoration process. The data transport and backup can be as seamless as the temporary files generated by a word processor and will be transparent to the user.
In addition, the majority of software on a mobile device is delivered through the internet. Each of these pieces of software has passwords, websites, keys, and other pertinent information that activates the software. Windows Azure offers a completely secure network pipe so that all of your confidential data can be saved and secure in case of a mobile device losing its data or operating image.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, platform images can be saved in a secure Azure data center. Instead of reloading a blank platform for your mobile device you can download a saved image and continue enjoying your mobile device at the point where the problem occurred.
Ultimately, however, it is the large data centers tethered to your mobile devices that make Windows Azure key in keeping your device viable. Access to terabytes worth of storage from a hand held device is the next step in computing. It is the final step that can make the mobile device the new personal computer and Windows Azure is ready for the challenge.
