We are continuing our innovation in the Windows Azure Platform and releasing at a frequent cadence of high-value new features and enhancements to our public cloud services. Today at TechEd I’m excited to make a few new announcements: For AppFabric , this past month we have just released the...

A few months ago, at the Professional Developer Conference (PDC), we released Community Technology Previews (CTPs) and made several announcements regarding new services and capabilities we are adding to the Windows Azure Platform . Ever since then we have been listening to customer feedback and working...

Today we released some new CTP features to make importing and exporting data between SQL Azure and SQL Server databases much easier. Through updates to the DAC framework that will be shipping in the next version of SQL Server (code-named “Denali”), migrating and moving data back and forth between SQL...

Over the past 2 months we have seen tremendous validation from leading industry analyst firms (Gartner and Forrester) that we are delivering great value for our customers and are headed in the right direction with our relational database, middleware services and data market in the cloud, as well as our...

As part of our continued commitment to provide regular and frequent updates to SQL Azure, I am pleased to announce Service Update 4 (SU4). SU4 is now live with three new updates - database copy, improved help system, and deployment of our web-based tool Code-Named "Houston" to multiple data centers....

During his keynote speech at the Worldwide Partner Conference in July, Microsoft President Bob Muglia announced that the third Community Technology Preview of “Dallas” would be available within 30 days. Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of “Dallas” CTP3 at www.sqlazureservices...

The Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) is a great chance for us to sit down with industry partners and understand their latest plans for adopting cloud technologies and the opportunities they see with SQL Azure, Windows Azure AppFabric, and “Dallas” –as they adopt the Windows Azure...

My name is Zane Adam and I am the GM for the Microsoft Azure business driving SQL Azure, Windows Azure AppFabric, Microsoft codename “Dallas” and middleware. Today I wanted to share some updates with you on some new features for SQL Azure which we announced earlier in the month at TechEd...