Connecting Windows Phones and Slates to Windows Azure

In the words of Rob Tiffany (@robtiffany), Mobility Architect at Microsoft, “the combination of mobile and cloud computing is like peanut butter and chocolate. Nobody does it better than Microsoft when Windows Phones and Slates are connected to Windows Azure over wireless.” If you haven’t had a chance to see how Windows Azure offers you, the mobile developer, an easy way to add redundant storage, compute power, database access, queuing, caching, and web services that are accessible by any mobile platform, check out this session from TechEd North America last week.

In this session, Rob helps you make sense of wireless-efficient web services and data transports, such as JSON. You’ll learn how to scale out processing through multiple Web and Worker role instances. Next, you’ll learn how to partition your data with Windows Azure Tables to dramatically increase your scalability via parallel reads. You’ll also learn about providing loose-coupling for inbound data from devices through the use of Azure Queues and Worker Roles. Finally, you’ll combine all this with distributed AppFabric Caching and Output Caching to provide a responsive mobile experience at Internet scale.

Did this make you think of cool ideas for the two? I’d love to hear them, so please share. Are you doing something with Windows Phone 7 and Windows Azure? I’d love to hear how you’re using it. Share the coolness in this LinkedIn discussion.

Happy viewing.