Today we deployed an incremental update to the Access Control Service in the Labs environment. It's available here: http://portal.appfabriclabs.com/ . Keep in mind that there is no SLA around this release, but accounts and usage of the service are free...

Register today for new Windows Azure AppFabric training!  Join this MSDN webcast training on February 7 , 2011 at 11:00 AM PST .   It's more than just calling a REST service that makes an application work; it's identity management, security...

As part of the Real World DataMarket series, we talked to Greg Kirkorsky, Senior Vice President for the Americas at STATS , about using DataMarket (a part of Windows Azure Marketplace) to support his company’s entry into the global consumer market. Here...

Today we have some great news to announce as Transport for London (TfL) has taken to the cloud by moving their new Trackernet data feed - hosted within their Developers’ Area - to the Microsoft Windows Azure platform. This forms the first major...

As part of the Real World DataMarket series, we talked to Dean Stoecker, President at Alteryx , about using DataMarket (part of the Windows Azure Marketplace ), to offer customers faster time-to-market, more flexibility, and less work when using Alteryx...

Today (12/13/2010) the Windows Azure platform AppFabric has updated the IP Ranges on which the AppFabric nodes are hosted. If your firewall restricts outbound traffic, you will need to perform the additional step of opening your outbound TCP Ports and...

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, we talked to Girish Kundlani, Program Manager at MAQ Software , about using the Windows Azure platform for the company's enterprise resource management applications. Here's what he had to say: MSDN: Tell...

Microsoft has announced new partnerships with three of Australia's top research organisations as part of the company's Global Cloud Research Engagement Initiative launched earlier this year. Partnerships with National ICT Australia (NICTA), The Australian...

The Real World Windows Azure series spoke to Kevin Lam, the Founder and President of IMPACTA , about using the Windows Azure platform to deliver LOCKBOX SFT , a cloud-based, fully managed secure file transfer (SFT) service for the company's customers...

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, here's an opportunity to dive into the Windows Azure platform and start building cloud applications. Join other Bay area .NET developers for this exciting, FREE Hackathon: Cloud Development with Windows Azure...

The latest issue of the MSDN Magazine features a great article on the Windows Azure Access Control service written by our two technical evangelists: Vittorio Bertocci and Wade Wegner . Want to get an overview of what Access Control is good for and how...

Are you looking to promote your Windows Azure platform applications and services? Would you like to compose Windows Azure platform applications and services in a modular fashion? Are you looking for consulting services to help build Windows Azure platform...

[This blog post original appeared on Steve Marx’s blog at http://blog.smarx.com/posts/how-to-resolve-setconfigurationsettingpublisher-needs-to-be-called-before-fromconfigurationsetting-can-be-used-after-moving-to-windows-azure-sdk-1-3 and is being...

One of the new features introduced in Windows Azure SDK 1.3 is the ability to host web roles under full IIS (instead of Hosted Web Core, as in previous SDK releases). Among other things, full IIS allows customers to host multiple web sites in a single...

Todd Papaioannou is currently at Yahoo!, in the role of vice president of cloud architecture for the cloud platform group. Before taking on that role, Todd was responsible for new product architecture and strategy at Teradata, including driving the...

Are you in the US or Canada? How would you like the chance to win money and prizes for the Windows Azure platform applications you've created ? Then you'll want to check out #CloudDevComp , a new competition from Perficient . All competition entries...

To help you understand how to use the new Windows Azure features and enhancements, an updated version of the Windows Azure Platform training kit is now available. This version includes several new and updated hands-on labs (HOLs), demo scripts, and...

Don't miss this FREE three-part series of webinars that cover the benefits, implications of - and best practices for - adopting Windows Azure . Click on the session title to register. The Business Case for Azure (Part 1) - January 12, 2011...

Maarten Balliauw is an Azure consultant, blogger, and speaker, as well as an ASP.NET MVP. He works as a technical consultant at RealDomen. Maarten is a project manager and developer for the PHPExcel project on CodePlex, as well as a board member for the...

Todd Papaioannou is currently at Yahoo!, in the role of vice president of cloud architecture for the cloud platform group. Before taking on that role, Todd was responsible for new product architecture and strategy at Teradata, including driving the...

Kate Keahey is a fellow at the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and works as a scientist at Argonne National Laboratory Computation Institute. She is the creator of Nimbus, an open source toolkit for turning a cluster into an infrastructure...

Novell today announced they have joined the Microsoft Windows Azure Technology Adoption Program (TAP) to work together on pre-release non-commercial, internal testing and validation of Novell Cloud Security Service (NCSS) on Windows Azure. The goal...

Today we have some great news to announce as Transport for London (TfL) has taken to the cloud by moving their new Trackernet data feed - hosted within their Developers’ Area - to the Microsoft Windows Azure platform. This forms the first major...