It’s been a while since our last update on this blog, hopefully everyone enjoyed a warm, sunny summer break while we continued the march toward the commercial release of Microsoft .NET Services. For those that are new to the conversation .NET Services...

This blog post provides a quick introduction to Windows Azure AppFabric Caching. You might also want to watch this short video introduction . As mentioned in the previous post announcing the Windows Azure AppFabric CTP October Release , we've just...

Recently, at the MIX conference we announced the release of a new version of the Access Control service and the upcoming release of the Caching service. Today we are excited to announce that the Caching service has been released as a production service...

Through a number of customer engagements we’ve heard time and again how extending current SOA investments to the cloud, through the use of Windows Azure AppFabric, has been transformative for our customer’s businesses. Customers have accrued...

As part of today's announcement about the commercial availability of Windows Azure platform offers , we are also introducing updated pricing for the Windows Azure platform AppFabric, which helps developers connect cloud and on-premises applications. Based...

Today the AppFabric team has released the AppFabric LABS environment. This is a new environment which the team will use to showcase some early bits and get feedback from the community. Usage for this environment will not be billed. AppFabric Labs...

We have released new videos and accompanying code samples to help you learn and get started with the newly released Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service. These videos and code samples are part of the Windows Azure AppFabric Learning Series available...

Today we deployed an incremental update to the Access Control Service in the Labs environment. It’s available here: http://portal.appfabriclabs.com . Keep in mind that there is no SLA around this release, but accounts and usage of the service are...

The IT industry is in the midst of a computing transformation as more applications are delivered over the Web and through the browser. Today businesses and customers have the power of choice to run applications locally, in the cloud, or a combination...

We are excited to announce that today we released the Windows Azure AppFabric April release that includes a new version of the Access Control service . The new version of the Access Control service includes all the great capabilities and enhancements...

The Windows Azure AppFabric LABS August Release is live as of August 5th, 2010. This release is a major update to Access Control. It’s available in our LABS environment: http://portal.appfabriclabs.com . For more details please see Justin...

Last week we released a Billing Preview that provided a usage summary to help customers prepare for when billing begins in April. Usage statistics in this billing preview are consistent with our new Connection-based billing for the AppFabric Services...

Today at the MIX conference we announced the first production release of Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service and a release of a new version of the production Access Control service. These two AppFabric services are particularly appealing and powerful...

Pricing information for the Windows Azure platform was announced on Tuesday, July 14 at Worldwide Partner Conference. Click the link to learn about pricing, SLA, offers, and commercial availability for Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and .NET Services.

In his MiX 2010 keynote , Doug Purdy announced a new service that exposes data in SQL Azure to web based clients using the OData protoco l . The new service is exciting for two reasons: 1) It can be used to publish SQL Azure data with no code...

The Windows Azure platform AppFabric December release is live as of December 18 th 2009. This release includes improvements in stability, scale, and performance. Please refer to the release notes for a complete list of the breaking changes in this release...

In the previous posts in this series we covered the challenges that Windows Azure AppFabric is trying to solve , and started discussing the Middleware Services in the post regarding Service Bus and Access Control , the post regarding Caching , and the...

Earlier in October, at our Professional Developer Conference (PDC), we made some exciting announcements regarding the future and roadmap of Windows Azure AppFabric. If you want to learn more regarding these announcements you can visit the Windows Azure...

In the first post we discussed the 3 main concepts that make up Windows Azure AppFabric: Middleware Services, Building Composite Applications, and Scale-out Application Infrastructure . In the second post we started discussing the Middleware Services...

In the previous posts in this series we covered the challenges that Windows Azure AppFabric is trying to solve , and started discussing the Middleware Services in this post regarding Service Bus and Access Control , and this post regarding Caching . In...

http://www.appinfrastructure.com We would like to highlight an exciting upcoming event which brings a fresh view on the latest trends and upcoming product offerings in the Application Infrastructure space. This is a Virtual Event that focuses on bringing...

Recently, in October 2010, at our Professional Developers Conference (PDC) we made some exciting roadmap announcements regarding Windows Azure AppFabric, and we have already gotten very positive feedback regarding this roadmap from both customers and...

Today we released the Community Technology Preview of the first three .NET Services: Access Control, Service Bus and Workflow Service. Over the last few months we have worked hard to bring you these three services: we looked at some of the hard problems...

In October 2008 at our Professional Developer Conference we opened the Community Technology Preview (CTP) for the Windows Azure platform (Windows Azure, SQL Azure and .NET Services). The CTP has been invaluable in terms of shaping many aspects of the...

Windows Azure AppFabric Caching will be released to production at the end of April 2011. The CTP of the Caching service has been available for trial since October 2010. Windows Azure AppFabric Caching is an explicit, in-memory, distributed caching service...