Swiss IT Professional and TechNet Blog : Azure

Microsoft Connection Days

mepprecht — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:46:55 GMT

At five locations in Switzerland from 28 September up to 8. October 2009, Microsoft Connection Days (ex Partner Days), an event for Partners and IT professionals will be held.

This year, Microsoft Partners and now IT Professionals will have the opportunity, under one roof, to network and make interesting contacts. Five IT professional topics will be available for you to obtain the latest information about cloud computing (key note), Windows 7, Office/Exchange 2010, Windows Server R2 and Hyper-V R2, SQL Server and Online Services (BPOS).

Azure Business Model and Pricing

mepprecht — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:39:56 GMT

At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, we just announced the business model and pricing for the Microsoft Azure Platform.

Have a look here for the details. Azure is available in Switzerland, among other countries.

SQL Data Services – The New Features

mepprecht — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:14:00 GMT

It was announced today which features will be in version 1 of SQL Data Services, the data platform running on Microsoft’s Azure platform.

Do not confuse SQL Data Services (SDS) with SQL Server, the product you can install on your laptops and data centers. SDS is highly scalable, on-demand data storage and query processing utility services, running in the "Cloud" (Microsoft’s Data Centers)

Among the features supported are Tables, Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views, Indexes, Visual Studio Compatibility, ADO.Net Compatibility and ODBC Compatibility. Access will be via TDS, encrypted by SSL. From a development perspective, most things you can do with the SQL Server in your data center can be done with SDS.

See the SDS Product Team blogs for further information:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ssds/archive/2009/03/10/9469228.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/dataplatforminsider/default.aspx

Azure - How does Microsoft build, provision, monitor and run the environment

mepprecht — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:17:52 GMT

A recorded session from the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is available that discusses the Microsoft Azure platform from a technical perspective.

In this session you will about the internal service management system and virtualization technologies responsible for monitoring, configuring, and lifecycle management of the cloud computing environment. Hear about the mechanisms used to deliver self-healing, dynamic scaling, and auto-deploying cloud computing data centers

http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/ES19/