April, 2010

A question we get asked is the following - Do applications need to backup data stored in Windows Azure Storage if Windows Azure Storage already stores multiple replicas of the data? For business continuity, it can be important to protect the data against...

The issue is resolved in the Windows Azure SDK 1.3 release which can be downloaded here . We recently found that there is a bug in our SaveChangesWithRetries method that takes in the SaveChangesOptions in our Storage Client Library. public DataServiceResponse...

We get a few queries every now and then on the availability of utilities for Windows Azure Storage and decided to put together a list of the storage explorers we know of. The tools are all Windows Azure Storage explorers that can be used to enumerate...

This post refers to the Storage Client Library shipped in SDK 1.2. Windows Azure SDK 1.3 provides additional Page Blob functionality via the CloudPageBlob class. The current release can be downloaded here . We introduced Page Blobs at PDC 2009 as a...