PHP Development in India Community Reacts to Windows Azure SDK for PHP Developers

Online, September 23, 2010 (Newswire.com) - September, 2010 has been a great month for the community of PHP development in India as it saw the introduction of Windows Azure SDK for PHP developers. The release came as Microsoft fulfilled its commitment to interoperability to Windows Azure by bridging the gap between PHP developers and Windows Azure. It is a one of its kind product as it is open source and can be used as a SDK and a storage device for Queues, Blobs and Tables.

An interesting blog post by Maarten Balliauw "Accessing Windows Azure Blob Storage from PHP" ignited the idea of developing a SDK to synch PHP with Windows Azure. RealDolmen, largest Microsoft integrator in Belgium and Microsoft itself have worked hand in hand to develop Windows Azure SDK for PHP Developers. RealDolmen has aptly used its 10 plus years of experience in planning architecture, strategy, integrating systems, training, supporting and maintenance for implementing Microsoft projects in the designing, developing and marketing of Windows Azure SDK for PHP Developers.

PHP developers who actively contribute to upgrade the community for PHP development in India have all praises for the latest product innovated by Microsoft and are obviously pleased with its features like:

1) Community for PHP development in India will benefit from the features of Windows Azure

2) Logical programming model for Windows Azure Storage (Blobs, Queues and Tables)

3) PHP developer in India can find PHP classes for CRUD operations

4) Access to classes to help Error Management, AuthN/AuthZ, REST and HTTP transport

5) Includes support for logging, instrumentation and maintenance

6) Azure Table Storage allows storage of PHP sessions

Features of Windows Azure SDK for PHP Developers are sure to give a new direction to PHP development in India which is involved in designing and developing rich internet applications using PHP.

Windows Azure is a cloud based software plus services platform introduced by Microsoft. The main features include support for simple queues, tables and blobs, scalable storage, ease of management and hosting. It also allows better infrastructure management.