Two of the other Windows Azure MVPs (Michael Collier and Brent Stineman) and I are doing some research to see what the most common barriers of adoption are for Windows Azure. If you could take a moment (five to ten minutes of your time) and help us out we’d really appreciate it. We are interested in if you, your client or your company have looked at Windows Azure and found any of the following:

There seems to be two major concerns I hear from people when I talk to them about the cloud: Security and Vendor Lock In. I can see real validity in the security discussion with some of the issues being valid and others just being chalked up to FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt), but I just can’t understand the vendor lock in concern at all. The conversation for Vendor lock in goes generally something like this:

At an Azure Boot Camp this last week I was asked how the Azure CDN (Content Delivery Network) handled file updates if a file was being updated at the same time one of the CDN nodes requests the file. I wasn’t sure how the system would react, so I sent off an email to the get the answer. Thanks to Steve Marx for the answer. If you are familiar with BLOB storage and the CDN just skip to the fourth paragraph.