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Make Windows Azure Your Datacenter! This Jump Start will help you understand how you can use Windows Azure Infrastructure Services, such as Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks, to migrate, extend, run, manage and monitor common workloads in the cloud. The jumpstart will be led by Microsoft Lead Azure...

This morning we released the v2.0 update of the Windows Azure SDK for .NET. This is a major refresh of the Windows Azure SDK with some really great new features and enhancements. These new capabilities include: Web Sites : Visual Studio Tooling updates for Publishing, Management, and for Diagnostics...

Want to learn more about the Microsoft Azure service and all of the capabilities? Scott Guthrie is broadcasting live right now (April 23, 2013 from 9am - 10:30am PST) so head on over the http://channel9.msdn.com/ for the live stream.

Let's say you want to create a sticky note app that lets you add a sticky note on your Windows 8 desktop computer. Then this sticky note is sent to a live tile on your Windows 8 phone and your Windows Surface, so you simply can't forget or ignore it! Windows Azure Mobile Services helps you easily put...

This morning we announced the general availability release of our Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) support for Windows Azure – including our new Virtual Machine and Virtual Network capabilities. This release is now live in production, backed by an enterprise SLA, supported by Microsoft Support...

On April 27, 2013 something very cool is happening. A bunch of Windows Azure MVP's and community activists are organizing a Global Windows Azure Bootcamp . This is a completely free, one-day training event for Windows Azure, all organized by the community, and presented in person all over the World....

Today we released some great enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Active Directory : General Availability release of Windows Azure AD – it is now ready for production use! Backup Service : New Service that enables secure offsite backups of Windows Servers in the...

Microsoft’s 2013 Spring CIO Summit takes place April 9-10 and will host more than 200 CIOs from companies across the US. Registration for the in-person CIO Summit is at capacity, but that doesn’t mean any of Microsoft’s customers have to miss out. This year the virtual CIO Summit is...

System Center Global Service Monitor helps achieve a 360-degree view of the health of web applications. It uses Windows Azure points of presence across the globe, monitored alongside existing data found within the familiar System Center 2012 Operations Manager console. Global Service Monitor reports...

With the recent announcement about Azure HDInsight, now is a good time to look at how one might use Data Explorer to connect to data sitting in Windows Azure HDInsight. As you might be aware, HDInsight is Microsoft’s own offering of Hadoop as a service. In this example, we are going to look...

Yesterday, Microsoft announced that Windows Azure HDInsight Service – the company’s cloud-based distribution of Hadoop – is now available as a standard preview service through the Windows Azure Portal. Windows Azure HDInsight Service builds on top of the Hortonworks Data Platform to...

Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President for the Windows Server & System Center division, launched a new blog yesterday called In the Cloud . With regular posts, podcasts, and videos, Anderson plans to use this space as a venue for discussing how IT decision makers can assemble best-of-breed cloud...

Today’s news from VMware about a “hybrid cloud” future is just another example of how IT vendors have been rearranging the furniture to more effectively deliver what they already have on the shelf. You don't want to place your bets – and the future of your IT department –...

This past weekend, Microsoft rolled out a variety of enhancements for Windows Azure. These changes include support for Android devices, availability monitoring for cloud services, updates to the management portal, and many other features that enable more powerful metrics and management capabilities....

With O'Reilly Strata underway, Microsoft has had a lot to say about Big Data over the past few days. Throughout the conference, the Microsoft SQL Server Team has been posting a series of articles looking at some of the myths and misunderstandings about big data that prevent many organizations from fully...

Microsoft is thrilled to announce that an independent report published today named Windows Azure the leading Cloud Storage Provider (CSP). The report showed Windows Azure took a significant leap ahead of last year’s leader, Amazon S3, to secure the top spot this year. In the annual State of...

Microsoft Virtual Academy has released a new training series that delves into System Center 2012 SP1 Service Manager. Topics covered include: - Import Data and Runbooks - Build and Publish Request Offerings - Create, Invoke & Monitor - Chargeback These sessions are now available to view online...

The Visual Studio F# Team has released a new tutorial that demonstrates how to use F# and C# in a Windows Azure cloud service to create an Internet game. The sample is a crossword game — called WordGrid, which is reminiscent of Scrabble or Words with Friends. This is an excellent primer if you...

The Windows Azure Store makes it incredibly easy to discover, purchase, and provision premium add-on services—provided by our partners—for your cloud-based applications. You can, for example, setup a MongoDB database or quickly configure an analytics service for deeper insight into your application’s...

Want to use the same technology various broadcasters relied on to stream the London 2012 Olympics ? Good news. Microsoft is excited to announce that Windows Azure Media Services is now available and live in production. It is supported by a new media services dev center, backed by an enterprise SLA, and...

This past week, System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 was made available. This was an important step for our Cloud OS vision . The Cloud OS provides a consistent platform for infrastructure, apps, and data that can reside in any datacenter — be it a private datacenter, a service provider’s...

Earlier this week, Microsoft Open Technologies announced the new VM Depot — a community-driven catalog of open source virtual machine images that can be used with Windows Azure. With VM Depot, users can build and share configurations, create custom open source stacks, and configure new architectures...

Earlier this year, we announced the availability of HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA) for Windows Azure Core Services. I’m sure many of you are excited about the opportunity to leverage the efficiencies of the cloud, and are considering running your SQL Server instances in Windows Azure...

There are also two fantastic tutorials available in the mobile dev center. The first provides a walkthrough of the basics of configuring your iOS app for push and sending push notifications. The second details how to use a table to store APNS tokens that can then be used to send push notifications to...

From time to time Microsoft VP, Frank Shaw, likes to do a blog post that has some numbers to indicate the scope of what we do at Microsoft. We thought you might enjoy a few numbers around our Cloud services. If the graphic above is too small, go ahead and click it and the full sized version will be fetched...