Girish Raja's Dynamic(s) Thoughts : WPC09

Azure Pricing announced at WPC

girishr — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:49:29 GMT

Today, at WPC, we announced the business and partner model for the Windows Azure platform. Here are few highlights from the announcement.

Commercial availability at PDC 2009 in November.
SQL Azure will be available as a cloud-based relational database platform built on SQL Server.
Free until the release in November. Now is the time to go check out the free CTP.

You can sign-up for the free CTP account for Windows Azure & .NET Services at http://www.microsoft.com/azure/register.mspx. SQL Azure will be available later this summer.

The basic pricing that we announced today is in the table below. As part of the Microsoft Partner Network, partners receive an additional 5 percent promotional discount.

Windows Azure	SQL Azure	.NET Services
Compute @ $0.12 / hour Storage @ $0.15 / GB stored Storage Transactions @ $0.01 / 10K	Web Edition - Up to 1 GB relational database @ $9.99 Business Edition – Up to 10 GB relational database @ $99.99	Messages @ $0.15/100K message operations , including Service Bus messages and Access Control tokens
Bandwidth across all three services will be charged at $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB

More details on pricing are available here on Windows Azure Team Blog.

ISV & Partner awards at WPC09

girishr — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:37:07 GMT

Seems like WPC08 was just a few weeks ago but WPC09 is already upon us. This year WPC is at New Orleans from July 13th through 16th.

Every year, top Microsoft partners are recognized and honored with “WPC Awards”. There are several categories of awards includes the coveted awards

ISV/Software Solutions Partner of the Year
ISV/Software Solutions Innovation Partner of the Year
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partner of the Year

Partners can nominate their solution/company for these awards and do so immediately as the nomination ends April 9, 2009 at 11:59pm Pacific Time.

If you don’t know what WPC is, it is a partner event that provides a fantastic opportunity to connect with Microsoft folks and other ISVs or Partners just like you.

I also noticed that registration for WPC 09 is now open and you can register here: https://partner.microsoft.com/global/trainingevents/wwpartnerconference

These days unborn babies and even plants start to socialize early enough through social networking sites! So check out the below links to “socialize” during WPC this year :-)

http://twitter.com/wpc09

http://www.facebook.com/pages/WPC09-July-13-16-2009-New-Orleans/50554356818