Editor's Note: This post comes from Mark Brown , Windows Azure Community Manager. Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here is...

In my role on the Windows Azure team, I get two questions all the time from our enterprise IT customers. For the ones who haven’t gotten comfortable with the cloud yet, they ask “why do I want this?” For those who have, they ask “but...

Editor's Note: This post comes from Mark Brown , Windows Azure Community Manager. Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here is...

Windows Azure HDInsight provides the capability to dynamically provision clusters running Apache Hadoop to process Big Data. You can find more information here in the initial blog post for this series, and you can click here to get started using it in...

We built Windows Azure Mobile Services in order to make it quick and easy to build engaging mobile apps that scale. This week, Scott Guthrie announced two important updates to Mobile Services. The first enables pure HTML5/JS clients (and PhoneGap apps...

In our last blog post we provided a walkthrough of the updated HDInsight Service on Windows Azure. Today’s post, which focuses on HDInsight and Azure Storage, is the third in our 5-blog series on HDInsight. One of the interesting and differentiating...

Editor's Note: This post comes from Paulette McKay, Senior Content Publishing Manager on the Data Platform Team. There are some big changes this week to the technical content experience for Windows Azure, designed to make it easier for you to find...

Editor's Note: This post comes from Shayne Burgess of the Windows Azure HDInsight Team. Yesterday we released an important preview of HDInsight Service on Windows. This second blog in our 5-part series provides a quick walkthrough of this new update...

There are many options for publishing your source code to Windows Azure Web Sites today. For example, you can publish from development tools like Visual Studio or Web Matrix, or push code from a local Git repository on your computer, or even set up continuous...

Editor’s Note: This post comes from Eron Kelly, General Manager for SQL Server Product Management. This is the first in our 5-part blogging series on HDInsight Service. Microsoft has been hard at work over the past year developing solutions that...

Today we released a number of great enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Mobile Services: HTML5/JS (CORS) Client Support and Windows Phone 7.5 Support Web Sites: Mercurial Source Control Support, DropBox Support HDInsight...

Editor's Note: This post comes from Mark Brown , Windows Azure Community Manager. Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here is...

As part of our ongoing commitment to security we are making a change to our SSL certificate chain that will require a small number of customers to take action before April 15 th , 2013. Windows Azure currently uses the GTE CyberTrust Global Root and beginning...

Editor's Note: This post comes from Amy Frampton, Windows Azure Senior Marketing Manager. Successful Korean game designer Webzen faced a formidable task in determining the required capacity and performance of the IT infrastructure in preparation for...

Editor's Note: This post comes from Amy Frampton, Windows Azure Senior Marketing Manager. Initially funded in January 2009 and headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, VisibleBrands has introduced technology built on Windows Azure Cloud Services that...

Editor's Note: This post comes from Mark Brown , Windows Azure Community Manager. Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here is...

Editor's Note: This post comes from Mark Brown , Windows Azure Community Manager. Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here is...

Windows Azure HDInsight provides the capability to dynamically provision clusters running Apache Hadoop to process Big Data. You can find more information here in the initial blog post for this series, and you can click here to get started using it in...

We built Windows Azure Mobile Services in order to make it quick and easy to build engaging mobile apps that scale. This week, Scott Guthrie announced two important updates to Mobile Services. The first enables pure HTML5/JS clients (and PhoneGap apps...

In our last blog post we provided a walkthrough of the updated HDInsight Service on Windows Azure. Today’s post, which focuses on HDInsight and Azure Storage, is the third in our 5-blog series on HDInsight. One of the interesting and differentiating...

Editor's Note: This post comes from Paulette McKay, Senior Content Publishing Manager on the Data Platform Team. There are some big changes this week to the technical content experience for Windows Azure, designed to make it easier for you to find...

Editor's Note: This post comes from Shayne Burgess of the Windows Azure HDInsight Team. Yesterday we released an important preview of HDInsight Service on Windows. This second blog in our 5-part series provides a quick walkthrough of this new update...

There are many options for publishing your source code to Windows Azure Web Sites today. For example, you can publish from development tools like Visual Studio or Web Matrix, or push code from a local Git repository on your computer, or even set up continuous...

Editor’s Note: This post comes from Eron Kelly, General Manager for SQL Server Product Management. This is the first in our 5-part blogging series on HDInsight Service. Microsoft has been hard at work over the past year developing solutions that...

Today we released a number of great enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Mobile Services: HTML5/JS (CORS) Client Support and Windows Phone 7.5 Support Web Sites: Mercurial Source Control Support, DropBox Support HDInsight...

In my role on the Windows Azure team, I get two questions all the time from our enterprise IT customers. For the ones who haven’t gotten comfortable with the cloud yet, they ask “why do I want this?” For those who have, they ask “but...