Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure . This edition highlights some of the key coverage and blog posts on this week’s activities...

Editor’s Note: Today’s guest blog post comes from Matthew Pardee, Developer Evangelist at Cloud9 IDE , which is an online platform for development, where all the code is open-source, free to adapt and use for everyone, anywhere, anytime. ...

With the preview of Windows Azure Virtual Machines , we have two new special types of blobs stored in Windows Azure Storage: Windows Azure Virtual Machine Disks and Window Azure Virtual Machine Images. And of course we also have the existing preview of...

Editor’s Note: Today’s post, written by Linx e-Commerce Program Manager Fernando Chaves, describes how the company uses Windows Azure to scale out its LinxWeb Point-of-Sale system for its customers. Linx is a 26 year-old ISV, and leader...

Two weeks ago we announced many new upcoming Windows Azure features that are now in public preview. One of these is the new Windows Azure Virtual Machine (VM), which makes it very easy to deploy dedicated instances of SQL Server in the Windows Azure cloud...

We recently announced the release of Windows Azure Virtual Machines , an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering in Windows Azure . I wanted to share my insights into how you can quickly start to use and best take advantage of this service. Since...

Windows Azure Caching is a distributed, in-memory, scalable, reliable caching solution that can be used to speed up Windows Azure applications and reduce database load. The first production service was released in May 2011; we are pleased to see that...

All Windows Azure sessions from TechEd North America 2012 are now available for on-demand replay. Below is a list of key sessions, including all sessions from the Learn Windows Azure event. Key Sessions Speaker ...

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 for this week. Articles and Blog Posts Microsoft’s Nadella...

TechEd Europe starts next Tuesday, June 26, 2012 in Amsterdam. For all of you who can’t make the trip, you can watch a live stream of all of the keynotes with Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President, Management & Security Division; Jason Zander...

The newly introduced Windows Azure Web Sites and latest release of Microsoft WebMatrix provide a great way to create and host PHP + MySQL sites. You can write your own or get started with one of the popular open source applications that run in Windows...

On June 6, 2012 we announced some great new features in Windows Azure that are now available for preview, including the new Windows Azure Virtual Machines (VM). One of the greatest things about Windows Azure Virtual Machines is they leverage the capabilities...

Today at 9:40 AM PDT, Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business (STB), will participate in an onstage fireside chat moderated by Derrick Harris, GigaOm senior writer, at the GigaOm Structure event. Tune in to hear Nadella...

WebsiteSpark is Microsoft’s program for small web development and design companies. WebsiteSpark gives web designers and developers a jump-start by providing the tools and resources needed to build great websites, free of cost. Membership includes...

Editor’s Note: ADMIXER is a leading web banner advertising company in Ukraine; Autocosmos.com is a leading automobile website for Spanish speaking consumers in Latin America and the United States; IT WORKS offers the largest e-publishing platform...

Editor’s Note: Today’s guest blog post comes from Matthew Pardee, Developer Evangelist at Cloud9 IDE , which is an online platform for development, where all the code is open-source, free to adapt and use for everyone, anywhere, anytime. ...

We recently announced the release of Windows Azure Virtual Machines , an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering in Windows Azure . I wanted to share my insights into how you can quickly start to use and best take advantage of this service. Since...

Windows Azure Caching is a distributed, in-memory, scalable, reliable caching solution that can be used to speed up Windows Azure applications and reduce database load. The first production service was released in May 2011; we are pleased to see that...

The newly introduced Windows Azure Web Sites and latest release of Microsoft WebMatrix provide a great way to create and host PHP + MySQL sites. You can write your own or get started with one of the popular open source applications that run in Windows...

WebsiteSpark is Microsoft’s program for small web development and design companies. WebsiteSpark gives web designers and developers a jump-start by providing the tools and resources needed to build great websites, free of cost. Membership includes...

Recently at the Meet Windows Azure event in San Francisco we unveiled some significant upgrades to the Windows Azure feature set. One major feature is we added new support for deploying to and managing Windows Azure from other platforms such as Mac and...

We announced the preview of Windows Azure Virtual Network on June 6. In this blog post, we wanted to take a deeper look at this brand new feature and explain it further in the context of other cross-premises networking features that already exist in Windows...

Much of the value of an identity management system derives from the ability to glue together a lot of people, devices, and applications, and to enable applications and administrators to understand and manage all these connections. So in many ways, this...

In this blog you will learn how you can take an existing ASP.NET application and publish it to a Windows Azure Web Site. The demo application is an ASP.NET MVC 4 and uses Entity Framework (EF) Code First to access the data stored in SQL Server. It also...

Greetings. It is my pleasure to write about the work that engineers in Windows Azure have been doing to enable our partners and customers to run and manage Linux workloads on top of Windows Azure. As you might have heard by now, the new Virtual Machine...

As part of our ongoing exercise of making details about the SQL Azure service more transparent by increasing customer awareness, we have updated the Causes of Connection Termination section on the Connection Management for SQL Azure wiki page on TechNet...

Today at 9:40 AM PDT, Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business (STB), will participate in an onstage fireside chat moderated by Derrick Harris, GigaOm senior writer, at the GigaOm Structure event. Tune in to hear Nadella...

In April 2012, we launched Windows Azure Trust Center (WATC) with the goal of providing customers and partners with easier access to regulatory compliance information. We indicated that WATC would be updated on a regular basis with additional compliance...

Today, we are ushering in the new era of Hybrid Cloud, bringing together the best of on-premises and cloud computing. Virtual Machines, Virtual Network, and Web Sites are now available as new preview services for Windows Azure. SQL Reporting is now Generally...

If you’re looking for more information about the news we shared in yesterday’s blog post, “Announcing New Windows Azure Services to Deliver “Hybrid Cloud” by Bill Laing, be sure to read Scott Guthrie’s new blog post...

“Hybrid cloud” – the use and building of applications that connect to data and services across a mix of datacenters – is the reality for cloud computing today. Your businesses and applications will move to the cloud in their own...