Editor's Note: The following is a post from Michael Washam, Senior Program Manager for Windows Azure. SharePoint has proven to be one of the most popular Microsoft workloads running on Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Hosting highly customized SharePoint...

Editor's Note: This post comes from Kent Brown, Sr. Product Manager for Windows Azure Integration Services. After six months in public preview, Service Bus support for OASIS Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) version 1.0 has now transitioned...

Editor's Note: The following is a post from Satya Nadella, President of the Server & Tools Business at Microsoft. As the worldwide demand for cloud computing continues to grow, so does Windows Azure. Microsoft is the only at-scale global public...

Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here is what we pulled together for the past week based on your feedback: Articles, Videos...

Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here is what we pulled together for the past week based on your feedback: Articles, Videos...

This introductory blog will be followed by seven others drilling into each of the components in much more detail.  If you read this blog and take away that great cloud applications require you to write code to exploit the cloud services to their fullest, then it has met its purpose.   The code samples are real and they work (i.e. they function together). They are derived from real-world implementations and have been tested at scale.

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Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here is what we pulled together for the past week based on your feedback: Articles, Videos...

WebMatrix 3 includes a seamless experience for working with sites in Windows Azure, source control tools for working with Git and TFS, and a vastly improved remote editing experience. These are just a few of the hundreds of improvements throughout the application, including an extension for PHP validation and Typescript support.  We can’t wait to see what you build.

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Editor's Note: This post comes from Mark Miller. The 3 rd Annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey has just been launched by North Bridge and GigaOM Research . We are participating in this survey because your feedback on cloud computing is important...

Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here is what we pulled together for the past week based on your feedback: Articles, Videos...

Last week we announced the general availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure Services and Virtual Network. Virtual Network is a service that allows you to create a private, isolated network in Windows Azure and treat it as an extension of your datacenter...

It’s been just over a week since Windows Azure announced the GA of Infrastructure Services , marking the beginning of a fully supported Infrastructure as a Service in Windows Azure, with SQL Server as a major component. Pre-installed SQL Server...

Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here is what we pulled together for the past week based on your feedback: Articles, Videos...

Editor's Note: This post comes from Nir Mashkowski. Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Django is now available in the Windows Azure Web Application Gallery. This tutorial shows...

Announcing Infrastructure Services GA and New Price Commitment Today is an exciting day for Microsoft, Windows Azure and all of our customers around the world. I am very pleased to announce the general availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure Services...

Editor's Note: This post comes from Kent Brown, Sr. Product Manager for Windows Azure Integration Services. After six months in public preview, Service Bus support for OASIS Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) version 1.0 has now transitioned...

This introductory blog will be followed by seven others drilling into each of the components in much more detail.  If you read this blog and take away that great cloud applications require you to write code to exploit the cloud services to their fullest, then it has met its purpose.   The code samples are real and they work (i.e. they function together). They are derived from real-world implementations and have been tested at scale.

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Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here is what we pulled together for the past week based on your feedback: Articles, Videos...

WebMatrix 3 includes a seamless experience for working with sites in Windows Azure, source control tools for working with Git and TFS, and a vastly improved remote editing experience. These are just a few of the hundreds of improvements throughout the application, including an extension for PHP validation and Typescript support.  We can’t wait to see what you build.

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Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here is what we pulled together for the past week based on your feedback: Articles, Videos...

Last week we announced the general availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure Services and Virtual Network. Virtual Network is a service that allows you to create a private, isolated network in Windows Azure and treat it as an extension of your datacenter...

It’s been just over a week since Windows Azure announced the GA of Infrastructure Services , marking the beginning of a fully supported Infrastructure as a Service in Windows Azure, with SQL Server as a major component. Pre-installed SQL Server...

Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here is what we pulled together for the past week based on your feedback: Articles, Videos...

Editor's Note: This post comes from Nir Mashkowski. Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Django is now available in the Windows Azure Web Application Gallery. This tutorial shows...

Announcing Infrastructure Services GA and New Price Commitment Today is an exciting day for Microsoft, Windows Azure and all of our customers around the world. I am very pleased to announce the general availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure Services...

Editor's Note: The following is a post from Satya Nadella, President of the Server & Tools Business at Microsoft. As the worldwide demand for cloud computing continues to grow, so does Windows Azure. Microsoft is the only at-scale global public...

Announcing Infrastructure Services GA and New Price Commitment Today is an exciting day for Microsoft, Windows Azure and all of our customers around the world. I am very pleased to announce the general availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure Services...

In my role on the Windows Azure team, I get two questions all the time from our enterprise IT customers. For the ones who haven’t gotten comfortable with the cloud yet, they ask “why do I want this?” For those who have, they ask “but...

Today we are happy to announce another price reduction for Windows Azure Storage by as much as 28%, effective on December 12 th . This follows our March 8 th 2012 reduction of 12% furthering our commitment to best overall value in the industry. Reducing...

Editor's Note: Today's post comes from Jamin Spitzer , Senior Director, Platform Strategy at Microsoft. Directions on Microsoft recently published a new report entitled “ What Windows Azure Means to Software ISVs ”. It represents an excellent...

The London Olympics were a massive orchestration of 302 gold medal events squeezed into just 19 days. Multiple heats or rounds, often happening simultaneously, across 32 sports, challenged content providers to deliver flexibility to viewers in just about...

Don't miss Microsoft Corporate Vice President S. Somasegar's latest blog post, " Accelerating Startups Globally with Windows Azure " to learn how the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure is enabling startups that do big things with the cloud to increase...

Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from Tony Petrossian , Principal Group Program Manager in the SQL Server & Windows Azure SQL Database team. This post provides an overview of the fault tolerance features of Windows Azure SQL Database...

Editor’s Note : Today’s post comes from Sidney Higa , Principal Programming Writer in our Customer Experience team. This post provides an overview of a very useful paper about assessing costs associated with using Windows Azure for your applications...

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, I connected with Ron Robbins, Product Manager, Migration Solutions, at Quest Software to learn more about how Quest uses Windows Azure to deliver its OnDemand Migration for Email solution. Read Quest Software’s...

Editor's Note: This post comes from Amy Frampton, Windows Azure Senior Marketing Manager. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, Stat Health Services built the first Stat Doctors website in 2010 by using physical servers. The vision of its founder, emergency...

In the video below, David Heckerman, Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research, talks about the work he and his team conducted using data from the genome-wide association study (GWAS). Their goal is to find associations between genetics, disease and...

Editor's Note: Today's post comes from Jamin Spitzer , Senior Director, Platform Strategy at Microsoft. Directions on Microsoft recently published a new report entitled “ What Windows Azure Means to Software ISVs ”. It represents an excellent...

The London Olympics were a massive orchestration of 302 gold medal events squeezed into just 19 days. Multiple heats or rounds, often happening simultaneously, across 32 sports, challenged content providers to deliver flexibility to viewers in just about...

Don't miss Microsoft Corporate Vice President S. Somasegar's latest blog post, " Accelerating Startups Globally with Windows Azure " to learn how the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure is enabling startups that do big things with the cloud to increase...

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...

Editor's Note: The following is a post from Satya Nadella, President of the Server & Tools Business at Microsoft. As the worldwide demand for cloud computing continues to grow, so does Windows Azure. Microsoft is the only at-scale global public...

Editor's Note: This post comes from Chris Lattner, Sr. Product Manager for Windows Azure Store. We are excited to announce that the Windows Azure Store is now available in 25 new markets, bringing the total count of supported markets to 36. The Windows...

Editor's Note: This is a cross post from the STB News Bytes Blog. Last week, Microsoft announced an exciting (and tasty) example of its work in intelligent systems, business analytics and cloud computing. Costa Coffee’s iconic red Costa Express...

Happy New Year Windows Azure community! One of the first pieces of 2013 Windows Azure news is something that I am particularly excited about. Some of you might know that I was recruited to Microsoft in 2004 to help with the company’s approach to...

This morning we released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Mobile Services (job scheduler support, Europe Region Support, Command Line Support) Web Sites (scale improvements, integrated source control...

Howdy folks, Over the last few months as we’ve continued to add richer and richer capabilities into the developer preview of Windows Azure Active Directory (AD), one of the most common questions you’ve asked us is how Windows Azure AD and...

Tracking Santa is a big job and this year the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) team, Windows Azure, Bing Maps and all of Santa’s elves worked together to bring you the Official NORAD Santa Tracker . NORAD has been tracking Santa...

Howdy folks, Just a quick note with some cool news. Many of you may not have realized that the developer preview of Windows Azure Active Directory (AD) supports the JSON Web Token (JWT). We just haven’t talked about it much in this blog or...

Today we are happy to announce another price reduction for Windows Azure Storage by as much as 28%, effective on December 12 th . This follows our March 8 th 2012 reduction of 12% furthering our commitment to best overall value in the industry. Reducing...

Yesterday we shared that Windows Azure Active Directory (AD) has processed 200 BILLION authentications . Today I’m excited to share some great identity-related improvements we’ve made to Windows Azure that leverage the capabilities of Windows...