Editor's Note : Today's post comes from Rick Byham , Sr. Technical Writer in our Customer Experience team. This post provides an overview of the detailed guidance document linked at the bottom. One of the fastest ways to move database operations...

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 WPC Day 2: Cloud, Business...

Today we are excited to announce the Developer Preview of Windows Azure Active Directory. As John Shewchuk discussed in his blog post Reimagining Active Directory for the Social Enterprise , Windows Azure Active Directory (AD) is a cloud identity management...

Windows Azure Web Sites are a new feature that let you host web sites on Windows Azure very quickly and easily. You can have a new site up-and-running in less than five minutes ! The Develop and Manage centers on WindowsAzure.com provide a variety of...

The world’s premier student technology competition, Microsoft’s Imagine Cup , kicked off its finals on, July 6 th in Sydney Australia with more than 350 young technologists from 75 countries and regions. This year marked the event’s...

One of the things that sort of snuck out in the spring update for Windows Azure is the Microsoft Driver for Node.js for SQL Server . A long name for a driver with a singular purpose: connecting your node applications to SQL Server technologies such as...

Editor’s Note : Today’s guest post comes from Jean-Paul Gomes, Corporate Vice President at Sitecore, which builds business application software that solves modern day problems for a wide range of companies and organizations. Sitecore software...

The 2012 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), which will take place July 8-12 in Toronto, Canada, is almost here and this year’s conference is filled with an incredible agenda , including keynotes from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Satya...

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 How to Monitor and Analyze...

Editor's note : Today's post comes from Selcin Turkarslan from our Customer Experience team. The guide, Migrating Data-Centric Applications to Windows Azure , provides experienced developers and information technology (IT) professionals with detailed...

Alongside the introduction of Windows Azure Web Sites and exciting new Virtual Machine capabilities , we recently released a set of open source command line tools that allow you to manage and deploy these new services from the command line on any operating...

I’m very excited to talk about Python on Windows, which has enjoyed a resurgence at Microsoft over the past couple of years, culminating in the release of Python Tools for Visual Studio and Python on Windows Azure . Let’s dive in to see what...

Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from Walter Poupore , Principal Programming Writer in the Windows Azure IX team. This post outlines valuable resources for developing Java apps on Windows Azure. Make the Windows Azure Java Developer Center...

Editor’s Note: Today’s post, written by Bill Davidheiser, Chief Architect and Co-founder of iVoteSports , describes how the company uses Windows Azure to power its iVoteSports MLB-focused mobile game. We started iVoteSports.com ( sold on...

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...

We’ve seen really great customer usage and feedback on the new Windows Azure Web Sites Preview since the initial release June 7 th . Today, we’re happy to announce we’ve more than doubled the number of available Windows Azure Web Sites...

Windows Azure Web Sites are a new feature that let you host web sites on Windows Azure very quickly and easily. You can have a new site up-and-running in less than five minutes ! The Develop and Manage centers on WindowsAzure.com provide a variety of...

One of the things that sort of snuck out in the spring update for Windows Azure is the Microsoft Driver for Node.js for SQL Server . A long name for a driver with a singular purpose: connecting your node applications to SQL Server technologies such as...

Editor’s Note : Today’s guest post comes from Jean-Paul Gomes, Corporate Vice President at Sitecore, which builds business application software that solves modern day problems for a wide range of companies and organizations. Sitecore software...

Alongside the introduction of Windows Azure Web Sites and exciting new Virtual Machine capabilities , we recently released a set of open source command line tools that allow you to manage and deploy these new services from the command line on any operating...

I’m very excited to talk about Python on Windows, which has enjoyed a resurgence at Microsoft over the past couple of years, culminating in the release of Python Tools for Visual Studio and Python on Windows Azure . Let’s dive in to see what...

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...

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...

Last month, we announced the availability of SSAE 16 / ISAE 3402 attestation for Windows Azure core services; an important milestone for our customers and partners, as many have requested and received a copy of the audit report. But what our health customers...

We are excited to announce the latest update to Windows Azure Marketplace , which brings some exciting new features, and commercial availability to 12 new countries. Now ISVs in 38 countries can benefit from the Windows Azure Marketplace. New Features...

Today we are excited to announce the Developer Preview of Windows Azure Active Directory. As John Shewchuk discussed in his blog post Reimagining Active Directory for the Social Enterprise , Windows Azure Active Directory (AD) is a cloud identity management...

The world’s premier student technology competition, Microsoft’s Imagine Cup , kicked off its finals on, July 6 th in Sydney Australia with more than 350 young technologists from 75 countries and regions. This year marked the event’s...