Cloud Cover, Episode 1

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Cloud Cover is a new show on Microsoft’s Channel 9 that covers the Windows Azure platform. In this first episode, hosts Ryan Dunn and Steve Marx show you:

• Azure’s Service Management API and how to use PowerShell cmdlets to manage your cloud services, and
• How to get started quickly with Windows Azure.

They also talk about updates to SQL Azure, Windows Azure drives, new Windows Azure storage management tools and Azure Reader architecture.

[This article also appears in Global Nerdy.]