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Hear Doug Hauger, General Manager of Microsoft’s Windows Azure, discuss the company’s broad Cloud Services approach shared at the Nov 2010 UP2010 virtual cloud event.  This was streamed to a whopping 7,500 end points at the same time.  It will outline our efforts across Private Cloud...

Get a tour of the Platform as a Service offering from Microsoft, shared at the Nov 2010 UP2010 virtual cloud event by Niraj Nagrani Director in the SQL Azure team.  You will learn of the fundamental building blocks such as compute, non-relational storage, relational storage, identity and...

Security is a huge topic in any discussion regarding the public cloud.  This session from the Nov 2010 UP2010 virtual cloud event is led by Distinguished Engineer Yousef Khalidi.  It provides a terrific walk thru of how to think thru security considerations in general and for the Windows...

Many people use a SaaS solution, be it Hotmail, Gmail, Quicken Online, etc.  Now businesses are increasingly using SaaS also. 

This session (shared at the Nov 2010 UP2010 virtual cloud event) will discuss how one customer, the Kentucky Board of Education took advantage of SaaS,...

People hear a lot about “cloud” but better is to hear of non-trivial examples.  Come join to hear 4 solutions running on Microsoft’s PaaS solution, shared at the Nov 2010 UP2010 virtual cloud event:

• Facebook apps, where Outback Steakhouse used the cloud to handle 670k people signing up in 5...

If you have Visual Studio 2010 with MSDN Premium or MSDN Ultimate, you get excellent cloud computing benefits from the Windows Azure Platform included at no cost. 

Here's the first of 3 useful videos: it’s a walk through of the cloud computing benefits that one receives as an MSDN premium subscriber. ...

In this session a screencast will step you thru Windows Azure Platform account sign up to activate your MSDN Premium or Ultimate subscription cloud computing benefits, and some of the nuances you will want to know.

Take a look and then:

• Watch part 3 of 3, tips on using your account...

In Part 2 we took you thru signing up for an account; now we walk you thru some useful tips and where you can get further lessons on using the Windows Azure Platform.

Take a look and then:

• Get more info here about the Windows Azure Platform benefits for MSDN subscribers and how to...

Here is a quick video (4 mins 34 secs) to outline the Web based services that are part of the Windows Azure Platform.  The video calls out traditional options you have to inter-connect applications, and then the ways you can use the Service Bus to address communication, authentication and other...

Here is a quick 4 minute walk thru of SQL Azure.  The video calls out how SQL thru Azure addresses such key needs as:

• High availability, fault tolerance and cost effective scaling up and down
• Re-using skills already in your org, like T-SQL expertise
• Offloading such commodity tasks as patches...