We like to play with our format for events from time to time, and this time we are looking at a series of half day events that cover a specific scenario, instead of technical features. Our goal is to cover the in’s and out’s of that scenario. With a half day format we can...
Read more →Go get it now! So what’s new? Web Sites – VS Tooling for diagnostics, management, and simplified publishing Cloud Services Diagnostics – VS Tooling for configuring and viewing diagnostics data on a live service without redeployment Cloud Services – Support for newly available high memory VM sizes Storage – Storage client 2.0 in new...
Read more →The Windows Azure Boot Camps are still going strong. This year they are holding a global event, with over 60+ events around the world, on the same day. Here is a list of the events in the US. Please go to the global site to see the whole list. I think they are still...
Read more →Mike Hester just had me as a guest on his TechNet Radio show. Check it out. You can see in the video that my office is the old nursery with the cute Noah’s Ark wallpaper. Matt Hester kicks off his 8 part Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) series and in today’s episode he welcomes...
Read more →Here is a new event tour around Windows Azure. For full information, go to http://www.microsoft.com/enterprise/events/make-it-happen.htm. Leave with code running in the cloud. Available in select cities, the Windows Azure Developer Camp will get you hands-on with the latest development tools. The groups are small—led by local Microsoft partners who specialize in Windows Azure—and you’ll...
Read more →I have been focusing my career on the cloud for the past five years of so, and people reach out to me from time to time with help on a project. I am always willing to pitch in when I can, and if I have the time. Of course I have to remind them...
Read more →Windows Azure Mobile Services is a service platform that is part of Windows Azure. The team focuses on delivering valuable services to mobile app developers, on any platform. Their services include: Easy server side data storage with service side logic/code Easy schedule script execution on server side Integration into cross platform Notification Services Cross...
Read more →The great thing about becoming a devices and services company is that we can now engineer in monthly intervals instead of yearly intervals. In the old days, when you had to ship software on plastic disks, we would plan on ship cycles that take years to finish, most typically a three year cycle for...
Read more →Whether you build apps or support the infrastructure that runs the apps, the cloud can be a really big place. For some, it’s a natural evolution for their application and infrastructure to embrace the power and scale of the cloud. For others, it’s a journey that has to begin with a single step. Windows...
Read more →This past week we released several changes to the portal. As many of you know, we released the ‘new’ portal this past June. In that timeframe, there have been some features that were only still available in the ‘old’ portal. The new portal is based on HTML so that it is more cross-platform, lining...
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