Scott Densmore has published a useful post about how automatic deployments  can be done in Windows Azure and integrate that deployments in your ALM tasks: Azure Deployment for your Build Server.

AzureScope : This is a great resource about Windows Azure,I really recommend you to  invest some time and read the content it contains.You will find really valuable information about:

• Benchmark test cases and throughput reports
• Best practices on developing on Windows Azure.
• Code Samples.

Hope that you find it useful.

Additionally I would also recommend to have a look to Azure Research Engagement, it contains interesting information about how Azure is being applied in research projects.