Hear Darren Guarnaccia from Sitecore on usage of Azure for their solution.

 Microsoft® Project Code-Named “Houston” is a lightweight and easy to use database management tool for SQL Azure databases. It is designed specifically for Web developers and other technology professionals seeking a straightforward solution to quickly develop, deploy, and manage their data-driven applications in the cloud. Project “Houston” provides a web-based database management tool for basic database management tasks like authoring and executing queries, designing and editing a database schema, and editing table data. It is now available on SQL Azure Labs

Following are few screenshots for the tool, looks really cool

Login on main page at https://manage.sqlazurelabs.com/

Management page showing all info about the database

Use New Query to fire queries

Double click table, view or stored procedures to view the design view

Here is video of my session at WPC on changing Business and Application Models due to advent of cloud computing…

Today at WPC 2010 both Steve Balmer and Bob Muglia spoke about Dallas. Dallas is revolutionary service build on Microsoft Azure Platform that enables ISVs and developers to subscribe to trusted public and premium data from various content providers like US Gov, UN, Singapore Tourism Board, WolframAlpha, LexisNexis etc…

Key announcements by Bob Muglia included preview of updated Dallas experience, Dallas GA in Q4, Dallas CTP3 in 30 days and new content provider partners.

Check out Zane Adam, GM Azure(SQL Azure, Azure AppFabric and Dallas)’s blog for more details. There is also some great information on the announcements on Dallas blog by Moe Khosravy(Group Manager, Dallas).

Awesome Tweet on Dallas after the demo…

#WPC2010

Dallas is Microsoft’s Information Marketplace. It allows content providers to publish and sell there data. ISV’s and Developers can easily embed this data into there applications. This is a good video providing basic overview of Dallas.  You can get more information on Dallas at http://www.microsoft.com/dallas

This is a great whiteboard video on Windows Azure AppFabric from Channel 9.

This is a great whiteboard video on SQL Azure from Channel 9. Trying to consolidate resources on the blog. :)

This is a great whiteboard video on Azure from Channel 9.

Windows Azure AppFabric July release is now available. Zane Adam’s post has more details on the release.

The Windows Azure AppFabric July Release is live as of July 1^st, 2010. This is our second update since commercial availability for the Windows Azure platform began earlier this year, and we are pleased to deliver on our commitment to provide you with updates and service improvements on a regular basis.

With this release, we are expanding the benefits of Windows Azure AppFabric in two key areas:

1. Extending AppFabric to web browsers and mobile devices.

2. Providing an SDK to support .NET 4.

Announcing availability of the Windows Azure AppFabric July Release - Zane Adam's blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs