Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure . Here are the highlights from this week. Articles and Blog Posts Earthquakes Monitor App...

Think you know Windows Azure? Think again. You’re invited to preview the latest from Windows Azure at a special online event, June 7 at 1pm PDT (UTC-7). Meet Windows Azure brings together developers and tech entrepreneurs to talk about how they...

Heading to TechEd North America ? Then be sure to attend these sessions to learn how to use the latest Windows Azure features and services to build, deploy, and manage applications in the cloud with sessions delivered by Microsoft senior technical leaders...

Editor’s Note: Today’s post, written by Minitab Enterprise Web Architect Michael Yeaney, describes how the company uses Windows Azure and continuous integration to rapidly build analytics solutions for its customers. Minitab Inc. is the...

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, I talked with Davide Bedin, Chief Technology Officer at BEDIN Shop Systems, about how the company took a long-term strategic bet on Windows Azure to deliver their aKite retail management solution. Here’s...

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure . Here are the highlights from this week. Articles and Blog Posts Windows Azure and Java...

Editor’s Note : This post was updated on May 29, 2012 to reflect availability of SQL Azure in the “West US” Region. People’s ears usually perk-up when they hear Windows Azure uses more server compute capacity than was used on...

Editor’s Note: Today’s post, written by Full Scale 180 Principal Trent Swanson, describes how the company uses Windows Azure and database partitioning to build scalable solutions for its customers. Full Scale 180 is a Redmond, Washington...

After working pretty quietly for the last several years on Windows Azure Active Directory—the Microsoft identity management service for organizations—we are excited about the opportunity to start sharing more information about what our team...

As part of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 , we recently released a sample library for accessing Service Bus from Windows 8 metro style applications and a sample metro app demonstrating how to use some basic Service Bus functionality. In this...

Have a great mobile, social or web app idea and need help getting it off the ground? Join the upcoming AngelHack weekend (June 23 & 24 in Seattle, Palo Alto, Boston and New York City) and get one-on-one technical guidance and resources from the community...

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure . Here are the highlights from this week. Articles and Blog Posts Windows Azure SDK for...

The Bing Search API is now available on the Windows Azure Marketplace ! With this service, you can embed web, image, news, and video search results, as well as related searches and spelling suggestions, to create unique applications and services. You...

Editor’s Note: Today’s post, written by Miguel Parejo, CTO at Softlibrary describes how the company uses Windows Azure and the Windows Azure Marketplace to run and sell its multi-tenant information management service. Softlibrary is a company...

One of the best ways to learn about Windows Azure is through our online events, free of charge, right from your favorite device. Today we are announcing a new event, MEET Windows Azure . Whether you’re just getting started or are a long time customer...

Think you know Windows Azure? Think again. You’re invited to preview the latest from Windows Azure at a special online event, June 7 at 1pm PDT (UTC-7). Meet Windows Azure brings together developers and tech entrepreneurs to talk about how they...

Editor’s Note: Today’s post, written by Minitab Enterprise Web Architect Michael Yeaney, describes how the company uses Windows Azure and continuous integration to rapidly build analytics solutions for its customers. Minitab Inc. is the...

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, I talked with Davide Bedin, Chief Technology Officer at BEDIN Shop Systems, about how the company took a long-term strategic bet on Windows Azure to deliver their aKite retail management solution. Here’s...

Editor’s Note : This post was updated on May 29, 2012 to reflect availability of SQL Azure in the “West US” Region. People’s ears usually perk-up when they hear Windows Azure uses more server compute capacity than was used on...

Editor’s Note: Today’s post, written by Full Scale 180 Principal Trent Swanson, describes how the company uses Windows Azure and database partitioning to build scalable solutions for its customers. Full Scale 180 is a Redmond, Washington...

After working pretty quietly for the last several years on Windows Azure Active Directory—the Microsoft identity management service for organizations—we are excited about the opportunity to start sharing more information about what our team...

As part of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 , we recently released a sample library for accessing Service Bus from Windows 8 metro style applications and a sample metro app demonstrating how to use some basic Service Bus functionality. In this...

Have a great mobile, social or web app idea and need help getting it off the ground? Join the upcoming AngelHack weekend (June 23 & 24 in Seattle, Palo Alto, Boston and New York City) and get one-on-one technical guidance and resources from the community...

One of the best ways to learn about Windows Azure is through our online events, free of charge, right from your favorite device. Today we are announcing a new event, MEET Windows Azure . Whether you’re just getting started or are a long time customer...

Security is often reported as one of the top concerns or barriers to cloud adoption for businesses. To help dispel this perception, today Microsoft released r esearch that shows that small and medium sized businesses (SMB) are gaining significant IT security...

Security is often reported as one of the top concerns or barriers to cloud adoption for businesses. To help dispel this perception, today Microsoft released r esearch that shows that small and medium sized businesses (SMB) are gaining significant IT security...

Recent updates to the Windows Azure Marketplace promise to make things a little bit easier for publishers, developers and their customers. First, we’ve introduced promotion codes! Publishers can now create special discounted offers for their...

Hi, I’m Pankaj Arora, a senior manager in the Microsoft IT Global Strategic Initiatives team. When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer publicly declared “We’re all in” on cloud computing in March 2010, he wasn’t just referring...

The purpose of the Windows Azure ISV blog series is to highlight some of the accomplishments from the ISVs we’ve worked with during their Windows Azure application development and deployment. Today’s post is about Windows Azure ISV BrainCredits...

Over the past year, the Windows Azure Marketplace team has worked directly with data providers to onboard new data into the Marketplace. Today we have over a hundred datasets, from sports statistics to historical weather , available to build apps and...

Once you’ve decided to make a move to the cloud, a million questions will arise about specific details and capabilities. Finding the answers to your questions isn’t always easy but Windows Azure partners can help by providing you with the...

Here’s a great way to get two days of technical content and one-on-one assistance from Windows Azure experts. Sign up for the Seattle Interactive Conference (SIC), to be held November 2-3, 2011 at The Conference Center of the Washington State Convention...

Microsoft IT Showcase delivers the best practices and experiences from Microsoft IT to provide an inside view into how the organization plans for, deploys, and manages its own enterprise solutions. The goal of sharing these best practices and cost saving...

Windows Azure Developer Evangelist David Gristwood , spotlights several UK customers who have had great success on Windows Azure in his most recent post, “Who Else is Using Windows Azure…?” The post also includes videos taken during...

News from WPC11 this week has demonstrated that the partner opportunity with Microsoft has never been stronger. Validating that opportunity, a recently commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, “The ISV Business Case For The Windows...

Jared Wray is the CTO and architect of the Tier 3’s Enterprise Cloud Platform. Wray founded Tier 3 in 2006 to address the emerging need for enterprise on-demand services. Wray oversees the company’s development, support and operations teams...

Jason Bloomberg is managing partner and senior analyst at the enterprise architecture advisory firm ZapThink LLC. He is a thought leader in the areas of enterprise architecture and service-oriented architecture, and he helps organizations around the...

Rob Gillen is researching cloud computing technology for the government at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He also works for Planet Technologies, which recently launched a new cloud practice to assist government and public sector organizations with cloud...

Olivier Mangelschots is Managing Director at Orbit One Internet Solutions , a systems integrator based in Belgium that is deeply involved in Microsoft technology. In this interview we cover: Identity management in hybrid environments ...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] David Chappell recently completed a whitepaper on OData that I encourage you to take a look at. You can view it here , or download a PDF version. David does an outstanding job providing an overview...

Scott Morehouse was involved in the early development of GIS (geographic information system) in the Harvard Graphics Lab and is now director of software development for Esri . He was responsible for the initial design and architecture of Esri's ARC...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] This week I decided to take on an interesting challenge and see what commonly available applications I could get running on SQL Azure and the Windows Azure platform. I remembered a while ago that...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] On Wednesday March 9th, I had the opportunity to talk at Cloud Connect about cloud computing, the Windows Azure platform - and I also took some time to talk about what the public cloud is along with...

Jonathan Boutelle is cofounder and CTO of Slideshare, a site for the online social sharing of slideshows. A software engineer by training, his interests lie at the intersection of technology, business, and customer experience. He studied computer science...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 was released earlier this week and is now available for public download . L ightSwitch applications utilize Silverlight that can be run in the browser or on the desktop...

The Bing Search API is now available on the Windows Azure Marketplace ! With this service, you can embed web, image, news, and video search results, as well as related searches and spelling suggestions, to create unique applications and services. You...

One of the best ways to learn about Windows Azure is through our online events, free of charge, right from your favorite device. Today we are announcing a new event, MEET Windows Azure . Whether you’re just getting started or are a long time customer...

Security is often reported as one of the top concerns or barriers to cloud adoption for businesses. To help dispel this perception, today Microsoft released r esearch that shows that small and medium sized businesses (SMB) are gaining significant IT security...

Our friends over at Twilio have been working to make it easier for developers to integrate text message and phone services into applications hosted on Windows Azure using native libraries for Java, PHP and .NET . To sweeten the pot, Twilio and Windows...

Today we are announcing Casablanca , a Microsoft incubation effort to support cloud based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. Casablanca is a project to start exploring how to best support C++ developers...

Today we are announcing Windows Azure Media Services, a new collection of services coming soon to Windows Azure . Windows Azure Media Services simplifies the creation, management, and delivery of media to almost any device including Microsoft Xbox, Windows...

In Dec 2011, we announced that Windows Azure obtained ISO 27001 certification for its core features. Today, we are launching Windows Azure Trust Center with the goal of providing customers and partners with easier access to regulatory compliance information...

To keep pace with growing demand, we are announcing two new datacenter options for Windows Azure. Effective immediately, compute and storage resources are now available in “West US” and “East US”, with SQL Azure coming online in...

This past month at Microsoft’s annual TechFest , Microsoft Research demoed three new research projects powered by Windows Azure which aim to unify data to empower discovery and sharing. All three projects – Microsoft Translator Hub , ChronoZoom...

Movideo , a global online video platform, has announced it has chosen to transition its Java based platform to Windows Azure . Created by Australian media business, MCM Entertainment Group, Movideo is the only end-to-end SaaS online video platform business...