I wrote about this a while back. For small businesses that are trying to keep costs down really low and who want to save money, there is (almost) free from Microsoft when it comes to website hosting. Nancy has helped us update some initial how-to content...

A few months ago Intuit and Microsoft made an announcement regarding the Intuit Partner Platform (IPP) and the Windows Azure platform. The goal was to broaden the selection for small businesses from a variety of SaaS applications to solve their critical...

The team I work has several sessions taking place at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) July 11-15. Stop on by to not just listen, but interact with your ideas and experiences in the cloud. Plus, feel free to schedule time to chat 1:1 at...

  For those developers looking for ways to reach their customers to tell them about the latest in cloud technologies, www.pinpoint.com looks to be one place to go. I did a search on “Azure” and found quite a few Windows Azure and SQL Azure applications...

I get asked many times by developers about Microsoft’s “cloud” efforts and technologies and where they might “plug in”. I’ve found this rather simplistic response helps steer developers in the right direction. Developer options in the era of the “cloud...

A couple of hosting solutions case studies went live recently and they discuss the virtues of leveraging Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager. The hosting companies, Decision Logic and Adhost are delivering cloud-based...

I’ve read a fair amount of requests for a “test/dev” account on Windows Azure and maybe SQL Azure. The Developer Accelerator Offers may address some of those requests. If you sign up for six months, you get Azure usage for test/dev purposes for around...