Microsoft is building cloud hosting data centers all over the place, but if you don’t want to share you data with other tenants or want more control over your data, then this is good news for you: WASHINGTON — July 12, 2010 — During its annual Worldwide Partner Conference, top executives from Microsoft Corp. talked with more [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Azure’
New Azure Tools and SDK released
Microsoft has released new Visual Studio 2010 tool support for Azure: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jnak/archive/2010/06/07/june-2010-release-of-the-windows-azure-tools-sdk.aspx Direct download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2274a0a8-5d37-4eac-b50a-e197dc340f6f&displaylang=en New for version 1.2: Visual Studio 2010 RTM Support: Full support for Visual Studio 2010 RTM. .NET 4 support: Choose to build services targeting either the .NET 3.5 or .NET 4 framework. Cloud storage explorer: Displays a read-only view of [...]
Introduction to SQL Azure TechNet article published
Last month my colleague Joachim Farla and I wrote an article for Microsoft TechNet Magazine about SQL Azure. This week the article was published. You can get a free subscription from the TechNet website. The article itself can also be found online at the weblog of Joachim. It is written in Dutch, but Google translate gives [...]
SQL Azure update (SU2)
The SQL Azure team announced a planned upgrade to the SQL Azure environment. This update (SU2) was announed at MIX10 and contains support for Multiple Active Row Sets. The 50 GB databases and spatial data are planned for SU3 (June). The update will be rolled out over the datacenters and will be finished at the [...]
Is there going to be an App store for BPOS?
There are some rumors that Microsoft is creating an application store for their Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). See this article for more information: http://enterprisecloudnews.com/2010/03/microsoft-preparing-bpos-app-store/ The dedicated cloud-watchers here at The VAR Guy have heard some rumblings. Rumor has it Microsoft’s BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite) will soon gain a SaaS application store. Our sources [...]
Windows Phone 7 and cloud
Microsoft has released more information about the new Windows Phone 7. You can download the SDK and emulator and create your own applications already. One thing to keep in mind; the Windows Phone 7 does not have a local database. According to Microsoft the device is intended to always be online and use some cloud [...]
Building Facebook application and host them on Azure
When you create your next Facebook application (with MVC for example) and it is of course successful, you might face some challenges to scale your application. To aid you with this, Thuzi and Microsoft created a toolkit to create and host Facebook application on Azure. See the CodePlex page for the download and more information: [...]
Develop cloud apps on Azure
Nice blog post about how to build and host application on Azure: http://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/archive/2010/03/16/mix-10-building-and-deploying-windows-azure-based-applications-with-microsoft-visual-studio-2010.aspx See also the video from MIX10: