Windows Azure

We are pleased to announce that the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service has been released to production! In this video, Karandeep Anand—Principal Group Program Manager for AppFabric—shares all the details related to the Caching service...including pricing! The Caching service is a…

Quark Promote offers small businesses ways to create a unique, professional image with top-quality, printed marketing materials. Quark's Vice President of Emerging Technologies explains to ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle how his team implemented a multi-tenant offering using Windows Azure. He…

Through its Datawire service, NewsGator aggregates approximately 1.6 million content sources on an hourly basis. This service used to be housed in their own data center; NewsGator recently moved this service to Windows Azure. The VP of Mobile and Data Services, Walker Fenton, and Software Developer…

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show @CloudCoverShow. In this episode, Vittorio Bertocci joins Wade as they explore the Umbraco Accelerator for Windows Azure. The accelerator is designed to make it easy to deploy Umbraco…

I finally had the chance to sit down with Morten at MIX11 in Las Vegas last week to discuss the work he is doing on WordPress with Windows Azure to solve some common challenges with multi-site WordPress installations using traditional hosting. In Morten's words:  "I am building a…

In this interview, Anders Hauge, a Program Manager on the Azure tools team, shows us how the new Web Deployment feature along with Remote Desktop allows you to incrementally publish your web applications to the Azure cloud. This means that you can make updates to your already deployed web apps with…

What is “big data?” Lynn Langit and Dave Nielsen offer a few examples of big data, and how data scientists are using the Cloud to manage massive amounts of data. Using SQL Azure (which is just SQL Server hosted on the Azure infrastructure) as an example, Lynn describes why customers are using a…

StorSimple provides a hybrid storage solution that combines on-premises storage with a scalable, on-demand cloud storage model. StorSimple integrates with several cloud storage providers, including Windows Azure.  Dr. Ian Howells, CMO for StorSimple, talks with Developer Evangelist Wes Yanaga…

This is the news that so many have been waiting for: the new version of Access Control Service finally hit RTW stage! Stuart Kwan, Principal Group Program Manager on the Cloud Identity Platform team and recurrent guest on the IdElement, gives a four-minute introduction to the service and…

ACS may be a PaaS service, but the programmatic route is not the only way to is heart: there are many situations in which developers, administrators and users interact directly with it. The new release of the Access Control Service features a management portal you can use for managing your access…