[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] Hey Everyone, Jeff Currier, one of our superstar, non-slacker, dev leads has put together some examples for accessing SDS from both C# and Java. The C# example can be found here and the Java one here...

Hey Everyone, Jeff Currier, one of our superstar, non-slacker, dev leads has put together some examples for accessing SDS from both C# and Java. The C# example can be found here and the Java one here . In the C# example Jeff also gives a good explanation...

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[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] Hello again from MIX ’09! Nigel Ellis just finished up the MIX session on SDS: What’s New in Microsoft SQL Data Services (MIX09-T06F). (Edit: The talk is available for online viewing from here ...

Hello again from MIX ’09! Nigel Ellis just finished up the MIX session on SDS: What’s New in Microsoft SQL Data Services (MIX09-T06F). (Edit: The talk is available for online viewing from here ). Attendance was surprisingly good for 9am on Friday...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] Hi! For those who I haven’t met yet, I’m Patric McElroy and I’m the GPM for the SDS team. I’ve been with the team since last summer and it has been an amazing ride so far – lots of progress, lots of...

Hi! For those who I haven’t met yet, I’m Patric McElroy and I’m the GPM for the SDS team. I’ve been with the team since last summer and it has been an amazing ride so far – lots of progress, lots of learning and lots of cool stuff ahead of us. For most...

Since we announced our Community Technology Preview (CTP) in November our team has gathered input from customers all over the world in every major industry. The feedback is very helpful in this early stage of the CTP as we prioritize new features. ...

One of our goals for MIX was to give our developers more flexibility while ensuring they still benefit from the unique time-saving deployment, monitoring, and management features of Windows Azure. One way in which we went about this was to enable IIS...

One of the great things about Windows Azure is that it handles the deployment, monitoring, and management of your service so that you have more time to focus on the business logic. Until recently, realizing these benefits meant your code had to run under...

At MIX 09, we are announcing that we’ll be launching a set of ‘geo’-related features. We’ll be rolling out the features to all our users very soon. In Microsoft-speak, we are ‘super-excited’ about this since we can finally unveil in public what we’ve...

First things first: we're sorry. As a result of a malfunction in Windows Azure, many participants in our Community Technology Preview (CTP) experienced degraded service or downtime. Windows Azure storage was unaffected. In the rest of this post, I...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] Just some quick info on the SQL Data Services session at Mix next week. The session details are as follows: What's New in Microsoft SQL Data Services MIX09-T06F Friday March 20 |9:00 AM...

Just some quick info on the SQL Data Services session at Mix next week. The session details are as follows: What's New in Microsoft SQL Data Services MIX09-T06F Friday March 20 |9:00 AM - 10:15 AM | San Polo 3504 By: Nigel Ellis Tags...

If you're interested in getting a great overview of Windows Azure diagnostics, you should make time to read a new article in MSDN Magazine by former Microsoft engineer Mike Kelly , which explains how Windows Azure diagnostics fit into the general System...

A new post on the Interoperability team blog outlines a use case showcasing a new plugin for WordPress that enables users to use Windows Azure Storage Service to host media for a WordPress powered blog. The plugin, developed by Microsoft, is now available...

Following PDC09 last fall, we announced support for running Java and Tomcat in Windows Azure, but this doesn't mean Tomcat is the only Java application container supported in Windows Azure. In fact, the approach basically consists of creating a Java Runtime...

Would you like to know how to leverage your existing ASP.NET skills to build Windows Azure applications? Then be sure to check out two new articles, Cloud Development in Visual Studio 2010 and Developing and Deploying Windows Azure Apps in Visual Studio...

Have you checked out the Cloud Cover Video series ? In each episode of this popular and informative series, Ryan Dunn and Steve Marx cover the Windows Azure platform, dig into features, discuss the latest news and announcements, and share tips and tricks...

One of the exciting announcements we made last week at SXSW Interactive 2010 was the release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook . This new toolkit, built by Thuzi in collaboration with Microsoft, enables developers to rapidly develop Facebook applications...

During his MIX10 session in Las Vegas yesterday, Building PHP Applications using the Windows Azure Platform , Sumit Chawla, Technical PM/Architect, Microsoft Interoperability Strategy Team, announced the new Windows Azure Command-line Tools for PHP Community...

Today we are providing access to a beta release of Windows Azure Drive (announced as XDrive at PDC 2009). Customers have told us that they want to take their already running Windows applications and run them in the cloud using the standard Windows NTFS...

The Microsoft Corporate Strategy Group has just released a new whitepaper, "The Economics of the Cloud" , which details underlying the economics driving IT's shift towards the cloud. This paper, written by Rolf Harms, director of the Corporate Strategy...

Cloud platforms are a new world, and they open new possibilities. Reflecting this, the Windows Azure programming model helps developers create applications that are easier to administer, more available, and more scalable than those built using traditional...

You may have seen a letter in USA Today this morning suggesting that customers evaluating a licensing agreement with VMWare talk to Microsoft to learn more about how products and services such as the Windows Azure platform can enable a complete cloud...

Windows Azure must provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability of customer data, while also enabling transparent accountability. To help customers better understand the array of security controls implemented within Windows Azure from both...

Chris C. Kemp is CTO of NASA, a position he has held since March of 2010. Before that appointment, he was NASA's CIO and was in charge of the Ames Research Center, the Security Operations Center, and various other facilities. Chris started with NASA as...

I'm Robert Duffner, director of Product Management for Windows Azure and I'm kicking off a new series of blog posts where I will be interviewing thought leaders in cloud computing. I'll be reaching out broadly across the globe to industry, public sector...

Today, in less than three months since its announcement , Microsoft’s Windows Azure team has announced a refresh to the Windows Azure SDK and Windows Azure tools for Visual Studio. The Community Technology Preview (CTP), announced at Microsoft’s PDC ...