Introduction This post is inspired by Tomasz’s Hosting Node Applications on IIS write up that focused on the benefits of running Node.js on Windows server through iisnode. In this post, I wanted to focus on giving it a Windows Azure color and list the...

Here are a list of products, in no particular order, which will help improve the quality of end user experience for Azure hosted applications. This list is an organic aggregation of tribal knowledge and is not a definitive one. If you have any suggestions...

A colleague of mine Brian had put together this nice Azure Service Bus demo: http://www.brianloesgen.com/blog/2012/1/23/new-azure-servicebus-demo-available.html -Hanu

My colleague Peter put together the following list of useful SQL Azure resources: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/peterlau/archive/2012/02/28/get-started-with-sql-azure-resources.aspx   Technorati Tags: Cloud Computing , SQL Azure , Windows Azure

  MSDN subscribers get to try Windows Azure through this free offer: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/member-offers/msdn-benefits/ . -Hanu

Here is a list of CMS systems that are available on Windows Azure from various ISVs: Ektron CMS for .NET on Windows Azure: http://www.ektron.com/Solutions/Technology-and-features/Features-and-Tools/Ektron-Azure-Edition/ Telerik Sitefinity: http://www...

Just come across the following resources and thought these might be useful for others as well: Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games: http://watgames.codeplex.com Windows Azure Social Gaming: http://windowsazure.com/social-games A Reference Game Implementation...

  Technical Overview of the Security Features in the Windows Azure Platform: http://www.microsoft.com/online/legal/?langid=en-us&docid=11 . Windows Azure Security Overview: http://www.globalfoundationservices.com/security/documents/WindowsAzureSecurityOverview1_0Aug2010...

This is a nice reminder to me as well and thought it might be useful to you as well: http://www.globalknowledge.com/articles/generic.asp?pageid=3010&country=United+States

When network administrators shutdown your internet access due to a bot or rootkit infection and suggest you some internet based tools, you are in a paradoxical situation. I am sure you already experienced this if you have kids in college   Here is...

Microsoft press release is located here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2011/jun11/06-01corporatenews.aspx Technorati Tags: Windows 8 , BUILD , PDC 2011 , PDC2011

Just come across this tool from Microsoft research: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/5c8189b9-53aa-4d6a-a086-013d927e15a7/default.aspx . This desktop utility measures your upload and download throughput from your computer and Windows Azure...

  Keynote Tech·Ed North America 2011 Keynote Address Don't miss the opportunity to hear from two senior Microsoft leaders -- Corporate Vice President,Server and Tools Marketing,Robert Wahbe and Corporate Vice President,Visual Studio,Jason Zander...

Benefits of cloud computing are often outlined at a great detail as understood by business leaders and IT leaders. However, very little coverage can be found on the benefits that can be related to developers and architects. Here is an article I wrote...

Joe Belfiore announced the Mango features including the following at MIX 11 : IE9 support leverages HTML5 rendering engine similar to the one on desktop. That means hardware accelerated HTML5 Audio and Video (H264) playback is supported without the need...

Microsoft just announced Windows Azure Traffic Manager CTP (Community Technology Preview) during the keynote at MIX 11. The Traffic Manager allows the deployment of the same application to topologically dispersed data centers enabling the distribution...

At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference today, Microsoft announced IIS Smooth Streaming through Windows Azure CDN (Content Delivery Network) infrastructure. Previously Windows Azure CDN only supported structured and unstructured file...

My colleague Bart Robertson has posted a nice blog about his deployment experiences on Window Azure platform: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bartr/archive/2011/04/05/sxp-one-year-later.aspx . Agility, Elasticity, Performance, Availability, and cost advantage...

Finally we have a landing page on MSDN from which you can access all self-paced Microsoft training courses: http://msdn.microsoft.com/trainingcourses.aspx . Following are the courses listed on the above page:  Windows Phone 7 Training Course Windows...

IE9 was available for download globally at www.BeautyOfTheWeb.com at 9PM PST today. The following are a few aspects of IE9 that will surprise you:  1. IE9 is the fastest adopted beta in IE browser history .  With over 40M downloads and a usage...

  I was impressed with the MAT tool that encapsulates all the information one has to be aware of, before attempting the application migration to Windows Azure platform. The tool addresses migration considerations including app server, database, integration...

A colleague of mine David Chou, who I have great respect for, has written an excellent blog post on cloud-optimized architecture subject: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dachou/archive/2011/01/23/designing-for-cloud-optimized-architecture.aspx . Good read for...

Windows Azure being a Platform as a Service (PaaS), abstracts away the OS, storage, networking and shares these massive pools of physical resources across virtual instances of applications running on Azure infrastructure. Windows Azure platform defines...

When I wrote Windows Azure Platform for Enterprises in MSDN magazine in February 2010, the Azure Storage monthly cost under the header Cost Oriented Architecture for the Cloud was erroneous. This was partly due to the lack of detailed understanding of...

Our audience team is spinning up our next round of Windows Azure Boot Camps . If you aren't familiar with the Windows Azure Boot Camp format, it has traditionally been a two-day hands-on lab-oriented experience. You bring your laptop, join a Microsoft...