Last week we added 12 new articles to our growing collection of Real World Guidance available on windowsazure.com . These articles are written by developers, architects, and IT Pros from inside and outside Microsoft who are using Windows Azure . The articles...

Anyone who has worked on a software development project will be familiar with the concept of an “environment”. Simply put, an environment is a set of infrastructure that you can deploy your application to, supporting a specific activity in...

As part of the Real World Windows Azure customer interview series, I talked to Marc Slovak, Vice President Product Technology, and Manish Bhargava, Product Manager, at LexisNexis about their new offerings on Windows Azure Marketplace . Here’s what...

The Professional Association for SQL Server will hold the PASS Summit 2011 from Oct 11-14 in Seattle, Washington. Are you attending? There are many reasons why you should be, including dozens of sessions with Windows Azure Platform content and keynotes...

Based on your feedback, today we are making some helpful updates to Windows Azure that provide developers flexibility for making in-place updates to deployed services. Best of all, these updates are easily made without changing the public IP of the service...

The folks over at the TechNet Evaluation Center have just released a new evaluation experience called Deploying And Managing Windows Azure Applications . In this evaluation, users will follow a step-by-step guide to deploy a sample application to Windows...

On Friday we added relay load balancing to the Service Bus with support for up to 25 listeners per relay endpoint. Relay load balancing greatly simplifies the task of achieving high availability, redundancy, and scalability by supporting multiple listeners...

Did you know that you can build your next mobile app on Windows Azure ? Better yet, the process of building mobile apps is now easier than ever with the Windows Azure Toolkits for Devices . With support for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, these toolkits...

Last week we added 12 new articles to our growing collection of Real World Guidance available on windowsazure.com . These articles are written by developers, architects, and IT Pros from inside and outside Microsoft who are using Windows Azure . The articles...

Anyone who has worked on a software development project will be familiar with the concept of an “environment”. Simply put, an environment is a set of infrastructure that you can deploy your application to, supporting a specific activity in...

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...

Microsoft Corporate Vice President Ted Kummert kicked off the SQL PASS conference today in Seattle. For those of you who aren’t familiar with SQL PASS, it is an event for the SQL Server community, driven by the SQL Server community. During his opening...

Yesterday at the SQL PASS Summit , we announced several enhancements to SQL Azure that will be delivered with our next service release. The Q4 SR marks a further advancement to our scale on demand capabilities for the data tier. Key enhancements include...

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of the next SQL Azure Reporting Community Technology Preview (CTP). SQL Azure Reporting delivers on the promise of BI in the cloud, and developers can now author reports, just as they do today when...

We are very pleased to announce the broad availability of the next Community Technology Preview (CTP) release of SQL Azure Data Sync. This release supports customers' journey to the cloud by enabling hybrid IT environments between on-premises and the...

During the Day 2 keynote at the SQL PASS Summit 2011 this morning, Microsoft announced a number of updates, including some much requested advancements to SQL Azure . Key announcements on SQL Azure included the availability of new CTPs for SQL Azure...