One of the most common workloads I hear about from customers and developers is video encoding in Windows Azure.  There are certainly many ways to perform video encoding in Windows Azure – in fact, at PDC 2009 I was joined by Mark Richards of Origin Digital who discussed their video transcoding solution on Windows Azure [...] Blog Post by: Wade

Recently, in October 2010, at our Professional Developers Conference (PDC) we made some exciting roadmap announcements regarding Windows Azure AppFabric, and we have already gotten very positive feedback regarding this roadmap from both customers and analysts ( Gartner Names Windows Azure AppFabric "A Strategic Core of Microsoft's Cloud Platform" ). As result of these announcements we wanted to have a series of blog posts that will give a refreshed introduction to the Windows Azure...

One of the main benefits of identity federation for you as an end user is that you don’t need to maintain / remember tons of Usernames and Passwords for all those disparate systems that you deal with. You can do with just one Username and Passowrd which will enable you to logon to multiple systems. You may say…”OK, so what is the big deal?, I will have the same Username and Password for all my systems, Emails, Website etc.”, well it’s not the same thing… By keeping...

Identity Federation as the name suggest, is a process of relating multiple identities such that disparate systems can be integrated seamlessly. To put it in simple words, Identity federation is a concept of ensuring that a user does not have to manually logon to multiple systems to accomplish a given objective, it enables you to navigate through the systems by logging on only once. For example, imagine you are planning your next vacation and you logon to your favorite travel agent’s website...

When: START: Thursday 27, 2011, 3 pm PST END: Thursday 27, 2011, 4 pm PST Impact Alert: Customers of Service Bus CTP in LABS environment will experience intermittent failures for the duration of this maintenance. Action Required: None The Windows Azure AppFabric Team Blog Post by: netsqlservicesteam