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...

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...

This post describes how to use the Service Bus brokered messaging features in a way to yield best performance. You can find more details in the full article on MSDN. Use the Service Bus Client Protocol The Service Bus supports the Service Bus client...

The October release of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit (WAPTK) is now available as a free download . The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit includes hands-on labs (HOLs), presentations, and samples to help you understand how to build applications...

On Friday we added relay load balancing to the Service Bus with support for up to 25 listeners per relay endpoint. Relay load balancing greatly simplifies the task of achieving high availability, redundancy, and scalability by supporting multiple listeners...

Did you know that you can build your next mobile app on Windows Azure ? Better yet, the process of building mobile apps is now easier than ever with the Windows Azure Toolkits for Devices . With support for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, these toolkits...

Based on your feedback, today we are making some helpful updates to Windows Azure that provide developers flexibility for making in-place updates to deployed services. Best of all, these updates are easily made without changing the public IP of the service...

Last week we added 12 new articles to our growing collection of Real World Guidance available on windowsazure.com . These articles are written by developers, architects, and IT Pros from inside and outside Microsoft who are using Windows Azure . The articles...

The folks over at the TechNet Evaluation Center have just released a new evaluation experience called Deploying And Managing Windows Azure Applications . In this evaluation, users will follow a step-by-step guide to deploy a sample application to Windows...

Anyone who has worked on a software development project will be familiar with the concept of an “environment”. Simply put, an environment is a set of infrastructure that you can deploy your application to, supporting a specific activity in...

Earlier this month we released an updated version of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit. The September 2011 update of the training kit includes updated hands-on labs for the Windows Azure SDK/Tools version 1.5 (September 2011.) The September update...

An updated version of the SharePoint and Windows Azure Developer Training Kit is now available for developers who want to explore how SharePoint and Windows Azure come together. The blog post “SharePoint and Windows Azure Developer Training Kit...

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...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] Next week we have a webcast coming up that I encourage you to take advantage of. Doug Johnson (VP Marketing and Business Development for Acumatica), Ali Jani (VP Product Management for Acumatica) and...

How's this for an innovative use of technology to aid scientific discovery? Researchers at the University of Southampton recently launched a Windows Phone 7 with a digital camera 60,000 feet into the stratosphere to help study air pollution. According...

We're pleased to announce that new versions of the Windows Azure Software Development Kit (SDK) and Windows Azure Management Portal are now available to developers. The 1.4 version of the Windows Azure SDK includes new features for both Windows Azure...

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum 's mission is to bear witness to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and February 26, 1993, and honor the nearly 3,000 victims of these attacks and those who risked their lives to save others...

Yesterday during the "Cloud Computing in Retail Breakfast" at the Euroshop Retail Design Conference in Dusseldorf, Germany, Microsoft partner BEDIN Shop Systems announced that their Windows Azure -based aKite Vers.2.0 software services suite has gained...

2/24/11 UPDATE: We're excited to announce a new node in Doha, QT to improve performance for clients on the QTel and affiliated networks. The most common question we get asked about the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) is, "Where are...

It's no secret that the cloud is opening up new opportunities for developers to create never-before-seen application experiences, improve existing applications and generate new revenue streams. The Windows Azure platform was made with developers in...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] The Windows Azure Platform team is announcing a new Introductory Special here . Details of the unveiling include a new Introductory Special as part of the Cloud Power campaign that includes 750 free...

In January 2011, the Australian state of Queensland experienced a devastating flooding event , with three quarters of the state declared a disaster zone and thousands of homes inundated with floodwaters. As the floodwaters peaked and the scale of...

Temenos , the global provider of banking software, today announced the availability of TEMENOS T24 (T24) on the Windows Azure platform. This announcement makes T24 the first core banking system to go into production with customers on Windows Azure....