Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure . Here are the highlights for this week. Articles and Blog Posts Windows Azure Mobile Services...

Windows Azure Camps are FREE, fun, no-fluff events for developers, by developers that help you learn the latest in developing cloud solutions on Windows Azure . Chances are there is one coming to a city near you; check the schedule below and get signed...

Editor’s Note : Today’s guest post comes from Nick Floyd , Senior Engineer at New Relic, which provides all-in-one web application performance tool that lets companies see performance from the end user experience, through servers, and down...

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, I connected with Roberta Kowalishin, Vice President of Web Technology at Hearst Newspapers to learn more about how the company used Windows Azure to quickly and cost-effectively build a mobile app to deliver...

We are excited to announce the availability of BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP Release in Windows Azure Virtual Machines gallery! Setting up a new BizTalk Server environment typically involves procuring hardware, getting the dependencies in place, setting...

Today we’re very excited to announce the Preview Release of Windows Azure Mobile Services! Mobile Services allow you to connect your Windows 8 apps to a cloud backend hosted in Windows Azure and easily store structured data, authenticate users,...

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure . Here are the highlights for this week. Articles and Blog Posts Deploying Certificates...

The Node.js Developer Center is designed to provide you with the resources and tools you need so you can develop Node.js apps on Windows Azure . A new post by Windows Azure Program Manager Yavor Georgiev discusses the newly redesigned Node.js Developer...

Editor's Note: Today's post comes from Jamin Spitzer , Senior Director, Platform Strategy at Microsoft. Directions on Microsoft recently published a new report entitled “ What Windows Azure Means to Software ISVs ”. It represents an excellent...

We are happy to announce new service updates for the SQL Data Sync service which are now operational in all Windows Azure data centers. The past two service updates (June and August) have brought the following enhancements to the preview in addition to...

The London Olympics were a massive orchestration of 302 gold medal events squeezed into just 19 days. Multiple heats or rounds, often happening simultaneously, across 32 sports, challenged content providers to deliver flexibility to viewers in just about...

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, I connected with Michael Meagher, President of Cogniciti to learn more about how the company used Windows Azure to build its online brain health assessment solution. Read Cogniciti’s success story...

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure . Here are the highlights for this week. Articles and Blog Posts Running Linux on Windows...

As we’ve talked about in the past , combining infrastructure and platform services provides flexibility to architect, develop, and deploy your applications and IT solutions in a way that works best for your business. Needless to say, we are excited...

Editor's Note : Today's post comes from Kumar Vivek , Technical Writer in our Customer Experience team. This post provides an overview of the newly-introduced database-level firewall rules in Windows Azure SQL Database. Windows Azure SQL Database firewall...

Windows Azure Camps are FREE, fun, no-fluff events for developers, by developers that help you learn the latest in developing cloud solutions on Windows Azure . Chances are there is one coming to a city near you; check the schedule below and get signed...

Editor’s Note : Today’s guest post comes from Nick Floyd , Senior Engineer at New Relic, which provides all-in-one web application performance tool that lets companies see performance from the end user experience, through servers, and down...

Today we’re very excited to announce the Preview Release of Windows Azure Mobile Services! Mobile Services allow you to connect your Windows 8 apps to a cloud backend hosted in Windows Azure and easily store structured data, authenticate users,...

We are happy to announce new service updates for the SQL Data Sync service which are now operational in all Windows Azure data centers. The past two service updates (June and August) have brought the following enhancements to the preview in addition to...

As we’ve talked about in the past , combining infrastructure and platform services provides flexibility to architect, develop, and deploy your applications and IT solutions in a way that works best for your business. Needless to say, we are excited...

Editor's Note : Today's post comes from Kumar Vivek , Technical Writer in our Customer Experience team. This post provides an overview of the newly-introduced database-level firewall rules in Windows Azure SQL Database. Windows Azure SQL Database firewall...

Have an awesome idea for an app on SharePoint or Office? If you live in the US, UK, Canada, Australia or India, build and submit your app and you could win big prizes in the Apps for Office and SharePoint Developer Contest just announced on the Apps for...

Editor’s note: Today’s post comes from Avilay Parekh , Sr. Program Manager for Windows Azure. This post provides a good overview of the new Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) related capabilities in the June 2012 release of the Windows Azure SDK...

Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from Gayana Bagdasaryan , Technical Writer in our Identity Federation team. In this post I will cover the basics of the Web Single Sign-on scenario that can be implemented with the help of Windows Azure...

Twilio just announced the winners of its Developer Contest, where developers built awesome Twilio apps running on Windows Azure . The contest, which was launched in concert with the “Meet Windows Azure” event June 7, awarded the winner up...

Editor's Note: Today's post comes from Jamin Spitzer , Senior Director, Platform Strategy at Microsoft. Directions on Microsoft recently published a new report entitled “ What Windows Azure Means to Software ISVs ”. It represents an excellent...

The London Olympics were a massive orchestration of 302 gold medal events squeezed into just 19 days. Multiple heats or rounds, often happening simultaneously, across 32 sports, challenged content providers to deliver flexibility to viewers in just about...

Don't miss Microsoft Corporate Vice President S. Somasegar's latest blog post, " Accelerating Startups Globally with Windows Azure " to learn how the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure is enabling startups that do big things with the cloud to increase...

Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from Tony Petrossian , Principal Group Program Manager in the SQL Server & Windows Azure SQL Database team. This post provides an overview of the fault tolerance features of Windows Azure SQL Database...

Editor’s Note : Today’s post comes from Sidney Higa , Principal Programming Writer in our Customer Experience team. This post provides an overview of a very useful paper about assessing costs associated with using Windows Azure for your applications...

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, I connected with Ron Robbins, Product Manager, Migration Solutions, at Quest Software to learn more about how Quest uses Windows Azure to deliver its OnDemand Migration for Email solution. Read Quest Software’s...

As part of our ongoing exercise of making details about the SQL Azure service more transparent by increasing customer awareness, we have updated the Causes of Connection Termination section on the Connection Management for SQL Azure wiki page on TechNet...

Security is often reported as one of the top concerns or barriers to cloud adoption for businesses. To help dispel this perception, today Microsoft released r esearch that shows that small and medium sized businesses (SMB) are gaining significant IT security...

Recent updates to the Windows Azure Marketplace promise to make things a little bit easier for publishers, developers and their customers. First, we’ve introduced promotion codes! Publishers can now create special discounted offers for their...

Hi, I’m Pankaj Arora, a senior manager in the Microsoft IT Global Strategic Initiatives team. When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer publicly declared “We’re all in” on cloud computing in March 2010, he wasn’t just referring...

Editor's Note: Today's post comes from Jamin Spitzer , Senior Director, Platform Strategy at Microsoft. Directions on Microsoft recently published a new report entitled “ What Windows Azure Means to Software ISVs ”. It represents an excellent...

The London Olympics were a massive orchestration of 302 gold medal events squeezed into just 19 days. Multiple heats or rounds, often happening simultaneously, across 32 sports, challenged content providers to deliver flexibility to viewers in just about...

Don't miss Microsoft Corporate Vice President S. Somasegar's latest blog post, " Accelerating Startups Globally with Windows Azure " to learn how the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure is enabling startups that do big things with the cloud to increase...

Jared Wray is the CTO and architect of the Tier 3’s Enterprise Cloud Platform. Wray founded Tier 3 in 2006 to address the emerging need for enterprise on-demand services. Wray oversees the company’s development, support and operations teams...

Jason Bloomberg is managing partner and senior analyst at the enterprise architecture advisory firm ZapThink LLC. He is a thought leader in the areas of enterprise architecture and service-oriented architecture, and he helps organizations around the...

Rob Gillen is researching cloud computing technology for the government at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He also works for Planet Technologies, which recently launched a new cloud practice to assist government and public sector organizations with cloud...

Olivier Mangelschots is Managing Director at Orbit One Internet Solutions , a systems integrator based in Belgium that is deeply involved in Microsoft technology. In this interview we cover: Identity management in hybrid environments ...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] David Chappell recently completed a whitepaper on OData that I encourage you to take a look at. You can view it here , or download a PDF version. David does an outstanding job providing an overview...

Scott Morehouse was involved in the early development of GIS (geographic information system) in the Harvard Graphics Lab and is now director of software development for Esri . He was responsible for the initial design and architecture of Esri's ARC...

[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.] This week I decided to take on an interesting challenge and see what commonly available applications I could get running on SQL Azure and the Windows Azure platform. I remembered a while ago that...

We are excited to announce the availability of BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP Release in Windows Azure Virtual Machines gallery! Setting up a new BizTalk Server environment typically involves procuring hardware, getting the dependencies in place, setting...

Today we’re very excited to announce the Preview Release of Windows Azure Mobile Services! Mobile Services allow you to connect your Windows 8 apps to a cloud backend hosted in Windows Azure and easily store structured data, authenticate users,...

Editor's Note: Today's post comes from Jamin Spitzer , Senior Director, Platform Strategy at Microsoft. Directions on Microsoft recently published a new report entitled “ What Windows Azure Means to Software ISVs ”. It represents an excellent...

The London Olympics were a massive orchestration of 302 gold medal events squeezed into just 19 days. Multiple heats or rounds, often happening simultaneously, across 32 sports, challenged content providers to deliver flexibility to viewers in just about...

As we’ve talked about in the past , combining infrastructure and platform services provides flexibility to architect, develop, and deploy your applications and IT solutions in a way that works best for your business. Needless to say, we are excited...

Twilio just announced the winners of its Developer Contest, where developers built awesome Twilio apps running on Windows Azure . The contest, which was launched in concert with the “Meet Windows Azure” event June 7, awarded the winner up...

Last month we announced the Developer Preview of Windows Azure Active Directory (Windows Azure AD) which kicked off the process of opening up Windows Azure Active Directory to developers outside of Microsoft. You can read more about that initial release...

Last month, we announced the availability of SSAE 16 / ISAE 3402 attestation for Windows Azure core services; an important milestone for our customers and partners, as many have requested and received a copy of the audit report. But what our health customers...

We are excited to announce the latest update to Windows Azure Marketplace , which brings some exciting new features, and commercial availability to 12 new countries. Now ISVs in 38 countries can benefit from the Windows Azure Marketplace. New Features...

Today we are excited to announce the Developer Preview of Windows Azure Active Directory. As John Shewchuk discussed in his blog post Reimagining Active Directory for the Social Enterprise , Windows Azure Active Directory (AD) is a cloud identity management...