Windows Azure Service Bus and Windows Azure Pack
In the attempt to combine private cloud (aka on-premise installation), public cloud (e.g. Microsoft Azure) and hosted cloud (servers provided by 3rd parties) Microsoft released a while ago the Azure Service Bus through the additional install for Windows Server 2012 R2 called "Windows Azure Pack". The Service Bus provides unified messaging capabilities across the different deployment scenarios. It addresses 3 core scenarios: 1. Application Messaging Patterns with Service Bus Messaging with the Service Bus allows building loosely coupled applications. "To enable a wide variety of messaging scenarios, Service Bus provides message queues and “Publish/Subscribe” topics. A queue is a message store in which messages are ordered by send date. One or multiple senders can send messages into a queue, and one or multiple receivers can read and remove messages from the queue. Once a receiver has received a message, that message cannot be received by another receiver. T...