On February 14, 2012 we announced significant price reductions and a new entry level database option to meet customer needs on both ends of the database spectrum. Today we are passing along additional savings to compute and storage customers. Here are...

Last week we added a new feature to the Windows Azure Management Portal to enable moving your SQL Azure servers between different subscriptions. This feature has been requested by many customers and fulfills multiple scenarios. For example, customers...

Microsoft Principal Architect Steve Peschka just finished up an interesting three-part series of posts on his Share-n-dipity blog that detail how to build a custom claims provider for SharePoint that uses Windows Azure as the data source. The (Windows...

Today, Microsoft released a commissioned study from analyst firm IDC challenging the misperception that cloud computing is a job eliminator and suggesting that the cloud will in fact be a major source of job growth. IDC’s research indicates that...

As part of the Real World Windows Azure interview series, I talked to Rajasekar Shanmugam, Chief Technology Officer at AppPoint , about using Windows Azure for its cloud-based process automation and systems integration services. Here’s what he had...

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure . Starting this week, we are moving this Community Roundup series to Thursdays, so as to provide...

The Windows Azure Service Management outage that began the evening of February 28th PST has been resolved and all regions and related services are now healthy. This outage impacted our Service Management interface and some customers of the Windows...

I lead the engineering organization responsible for the Windows Azure service and I want to update you on the service disruption we had over the past day. First let me apologize for any inconvenience this disruption has caused our customers. Our focus...

We have a new release of the Windows Azure PowerShell cmdlets that we hope will make getting started and scripting with the cmdlets a much easier task. The new release can be downloaded from its CodePlex project site here . Getting Started Improvements...

Last week we added a new feature to the Windows Azure Management Portal to enable moving your SQL Azure servers between different subscriptions. This feature has been requested by many customers and fulfills multiple scenarios. For example, customers...

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...

On February 14, 2012 we announced significant price reductions and a new entry level database option to meet customer needs on both ends of the database spectrum. Today we are passing along additional savings to compute and storage customers. Here are...