SQL Azure

Watch this all-day, in-person Microsoft Firestarter event around Windows Azure. The cloud is everywhere and here at Microsoft we're flying high with our cloud computing release, Windows Azure. As most of you saw at the Professional Developers Conference, the reaction to Windows Azure has been…

Watch this all-day, in-person Microsoft Firestarter event around Windows Azure.The cloud is everywhere and here at Microsoft we're flying high with our cloud computing release, Windows Azure. As most of you saw at the Professional Developers Conference, the reaction to Windows Azure has been nothing…

In this episode I talk to Danny Riddell and Luigi Rosso, CEO and CTO of Archetype.  Archetype is a rich internet application (RIA) development and design shop.  They provide both products and development/design services using Silverlight and Flash with .NET and SQL Server…

In this episode of Azure Lessons Learned I chat with Phil Calvin, CTO of Sitemasher.  Sitemasher is a web site platform for service providers.  They have an interactive environment for web designers, user experience designers, and web content owners to build on.  Their target is…

David Gristwood interviews Moe Khosravy about codename "Dallas, a key part of the Azure platform, and finds out more about just what it is, why developers should be interested, and sees some interesting Dallas demos.

Durable data storage is a key component of any cloud computing offering. The Windows Azure Platform offers many options, which can be used alone or in combination. Windows Azure itself offers ready-to-use and lightweight storage in the form of tables, blobs, and queues. Another choice for storage…

Larry Gregory talks with Mike Hoskins of Pervasive Software Inc.Pervasive Business Exchange is a hosted service for trading busines documents with trading partners. While initially seen as a horizontal solution Larry and Mike talk about how this could target vertical markets such as…

David Gristwood and I discuss the work of Microsoft UK around Azure before a 15 minute interview with Azure early adopter Active Web Solutions who make great use of Windows Azure and AppFabric.Full show notes and an article on the same topic can be found…

In this episode of geekSpeak, Chris Rolon gives us a look under the hood of Microsoft SQL Azure to see how was constructed. Chris discusses the issues involving high availability, failure detection, automatic failover, and the distributed data fabric. Be sure to bring your questions about SQL…

David Gristwood talks to Graeme Bryce, from Factonomy, about the framework they have built on the Azure platform, which is being used by MoneyDasboard.com.  In particular, he finds out what first attracted them to the Azure platform, what design choices they made around Windows…