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06-03-2009 9:37 AM

New Windows Azure Applications and Demos

New Windows Azure Applications and Demos Windows Azure Management Tool (MMC) The Windows Azure Management Tool was created to manage your storage accounts in Windows Azure. Developed as a managed MMC, the tool allows you to create and manage both blobs...
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06-03-2009 6:04 AM

New Features Released for Windows Azure

New Feature:  Geo-Location support Starting in May, a new option was added to the portal to support geo-locating your code and data.  In order to use this most effectively, the idea of an ‘Affinity Group’ was created.  This allows you to...
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05-17-2009 3:45 AM

Windows Azure Management Tool (MMC)

Windows Azure Management Tool (MMC) Available immediately from Code Gallery, download the Windows Azure MMC .  The Windows Azure Management Tool was created to manage your storage accounts in Windows Azure and makes it simple to help debug, create...
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03-31-2009 5:27 PM

Good MIX09 Windows Azure Videos

Video Session Content Seeing through the Clouds:  Introduction to Azure Service Platform While not specifically about just Windows Azure, James Conard covers cloud services from a high level and how the Azure Services Platform fits into this picture...
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03-27-2009 10:29 AM

Steve Ballmer’s Diagram on Microsoft Cloud Future

(Credit: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/steve-ballmer-maps-microsofts-cloud-y-future/ ) Steve Ballmer met up with Saul Hansell from NYTimes and tried to show what’s Microsoft’s cloud future is. Very interesting read.It’s interesting to note...
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03-22-2009 5:04 PM

Full Trust under Hosting Roles in Windows Azure

(Abstracted from: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2009/03/18/hosting-roles-under-net-full-trust.aspx ) Windows Azure now offers the option of running the code in your Web and worker roles under full trust.  This unlocks a number of compelling...
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03-22-2009 5:02 PM

PHP on Windows Azure

Since Windows Azure can now support Native Code and FastCGI, the folks @ the product team has come up with some sample guide on how to run 3rd party programming language like PHP on Azure through the use of IIS FastCGI. The full guide can be found here...
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03-22-2009 4:58 PM

Azure Development Storage

For those of you who have installed Windows Azure SDK that comes with Cloud Storage Dev Service (Storage Cloud on your Desktop for you to do offline testing), you will wonder how those test data are kept. The development storage makes use of SQL Express...
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03-22-2009 4:57 PM

Windows Azure Deployment Stuck in Initializing Stage

If you have deployed an application onto Windows Azure and it is stuck in the Initializing Stage: The most likely reason is because you are running an older version of Windows Azure SDK. The current version is the Jan CTP which can be located here: http...
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03-21-2009 11:46 PM

Windows Azure Blob Storage

For those of you folks who are interested to host your files (blob) on Windows Azure Storage, you can view this screen cast on Channel9: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/smarx/Windows-Azure-Blob-Storage/ which explains how to send/receive a blob onto Windows...
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03-20-2009 11:47 PM

SQL Data Services getting a nice makeover!

Watch these 2 blog: SQL Data Services Team blog and the Data Platform Insider Blog if you are interested to know the major revamp on SQL Data Services which they are releasing in MIX.
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03-19-2009 11:46 PM

Windows Azure Platform New Release!

The Azure team just released an updated version of Azure Tools for Visual Studio and SDK + Windows Azure SDK alone: Install both the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio and SDK: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=128752 Install the Windows Azure...
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12-25-2008 11:48 PM

How to start developing on Microsoft Windows Azure – cloud computing?

At PDC 2008, Microsoft unveil it’s answer to the cloud computing phenomena. Want to know more? Check out the official Microsoft site: http://www.microsoft.com/azure/windowsazure.mspx So to get started, you will need the following software: 1. Visual Studio...
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