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Can you believe its only 35 days to the next PDC?

Nov 17th seemed to be a long way away…then... Now we are into October and in practically 5 weeks we will be off to the races!! There are lots of exciting things that I can’t talk about obviously, but there are a lot of things that I can start to share. Read More...
Posted Monday, October 12, 2009 7:27 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Windows Azure : Storage API updates

A number of new storage features for blobs has been pushed to the cloud in the latest July SDK.  Probably the most exciting feature is the ‘ Shared Access Signature ’ (aka leased blobs).  This feature allows you to generate one-time, temporally Read More...
Posted Friday, August 14, 2009 4:34 AM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Windows Azure – Multi-Role Support

  New Feature:  Multi-Role Support With the July SDK update, the concept of multiple roles has been added.  This is visualized in Visual Studio through Wizards or through configuration. You can use the multi-role support to break out logically Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 12, 2009 6:09 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

White House mulls making NASA a center for federal cloud computing

There was an interesting article last week where the Obama administration was considering NASA as a prototype for its outsource plans and support for the cloud. It is a good read, but in the end, it highlights the confusion in the industry around cloud Read More...
Posted Monday, August 10, 2009 4:55 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Ethiopian schools rolling out 250,000 Laptops to school teachers

Ethiopia is rolling out 250,000 laptops to its school teachers nationwide. The system that powers the curriculum, keeps track of the academic records and provides secure transfer of data is being power by Windows Azure . What makes the really interesting Read More...
Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 10:08 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Windows Azure SDK Update and New Storage Features

The Windows Azure team have announced a refresh to the Windows Azure SDK and Visual Studio Tools for Windows Azure together with some significant updates to Windows Azure Storage.  The updated SDK includes improved Visual Studio integration, support Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 8:35 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Released: Windows Azure Management Tool (MMC)

  Ryan in the team has just release the Windows Azure MMC .  This tool was created to manage storage accounts in Windows Azure and makes it simple to help debug, create, and explore your storage solutions.  Features Manage multiple storage Read More...
Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 11:40 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Open Source PHP Project for Windows Azure

I have just been browsing an interesting project on codeplex which will provide PHP developers with a SDK to enable them to easily access the features of Windows Azure. In particular, enabling developers to access Blogs, Tables and Queues. There will Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2009 4:57 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Steve Ballmer maps out Microsoft’s Cloud Platform

Here is an article from the NY Times today which has a doodle from Steve Ballmer which outlines the Microsoft Cloud Platform. You can see the full article here. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/steve-ballmer-maps-microsofts-cloud-y-future/ The Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:00 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2

The WCF REST Starter Kit is a set of features, Visual Studio templates, samples and guidance that enable users to create REST style services using WCF. While the October release of the WCF REST Starter Kit focused on building server-side REST services, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 11:04 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Changes to SQL Data Services ( SDS)

SQL Data Services ( SDS) is part of the Azure Services Platform and is the key service for storing data in the cloud, whether your application is either hosted locally or using some of the compute capabilities of Windows Azure in the cloud. Since its Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:00 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Azure Services Training Kit – February Update

Want to know how to architect applications for Windows Azure and the rest of the Azure Services Platform? Need to get detailed training on all these Azure technologies? Well here goes…. We have just released an updated version of the Azure Services Training Read More...
Posted Friday, February 13, 2009 6:38 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Azure Issue Tracker Demo Released

Last week Ryan in the team released the Azure Issue Tracker sample application.  This demo demonstrates multi-tenant ISV and SaaS solutions using a number of the Azure Services Platform components and is hosted in Windows Azure.  The first release Read More...
Posted Monday, January 26, 2009 4:10 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Dynamics CRM Demo extended through Windows Azure

Some time ago at the Convergence conference in Copenhagen, Ben Riga on the team showed a demo of our Dynamics CRM product during the keynote. While I do not typically show off demos on here, I thought that this one was really interesting for a few reasons Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:22 AM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Wikieexplorer running on Windows Azure

Dotnetsolutions, a Microsoft Gold partner from the the UK have just finished porting their “Wikieexplorer” application to run on Windows Azure. Behind the scenes, a set of Windows Azure background processes have re-organized the millions on Wiki entries Read More...
Posted Monday, January 05, 2009 10:04 PM by neilhut | 3 Comments
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