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

We recently published this case study on Advanced Telemetry , a startup that offers an extensible, remote, energy-monitoring-and-control software framework. The company migrated its telemetry solution to the Windows Azure Platform in order to expand into new vertical markets without having to incur the costs of investing in server infrastructure. As part of their solution the company used Windows Azure, SQL Azure and Windows Azure AppFabric. AppFabric Service Bus is used by the developers in order...

Ever wanted to have something running in the background servicing your Web Role in Windows Azure? Maybe you want to preload often read but seldom written values from SQL Azure or you’d like to download content in the background on … More » Blog Post by: Christian Martinez