Blogs

In a few weeks, I’ll be heading to New Orleans to speak at Microsoft TechEd for the first time. My topic – Patterns of Cloud Integration – is an extension of things I’ve talked about this year in Amsterdam, Gothenburg, and in my latest Pluralsight course. However, I’ll also be covering some entirely...

It’s gotten easy to publish web applications to the cloud, but the last thing you want to do is establish unique authentication schemes for each one. At some point, your users will be stuck with a mountain of passwords, or, end up reusing passwords everywhere. Not good. Instead, what about extending...

On Mar 21, we announced the RTM of BizTalk Server 2013 . As of April 1 the English version of Biztalk Server 2013 is now generally available (GA), and the other language versions will be GA on May 1. One of the exciting features of BizTalk Server 2013 is support for running in Windows Azure. The Windows...

I’ve been hard at work on a new Pluralsight video course and it’s now live and available for viewing. This course, Patterns of Cloud Integration, takes you through how application and data integration differ when adding cloud endpoints. The course highlights the 4 integration styles/patterns introduced...

Windows Azure HDInsight is the simplest option to get a Hadoop cluster up and running very quickly in a Windows Azure environment. Among other numerous advantages, this service allows to use Windows Azure blob storage (ASV or Azure Storage Vault for short) exactly as HDFS (Hadoop distributed file system...

This 10 minute video walks through the new IaaS features of Windows Azure. It shows how simple it is to create a new Virtual Machine.

We are excited to announce that next Tuesday we will be presenting a webinar about one of the hottest enterprise software trends in the industry and one that is just starting to be more widely accepted within Microsoft enterprise customers: big data....( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

One of my goals this past year has been to get more hands-on with respects to real-world cloud applications. Working for Aditi has provided many opportunities to dig into some interesting cloud workloads. In addition to building all kinds of applications running in Windows Azure, I’ve learned a lot working...

This tool is intended to get you moving in the right direction and not intended to solve all your problems out of the box. You will need to use the Windows Azure REST API Reference guide when working with this tool. I have provided a few sample Request Body templates for Creating a Hosted Service, Creating...

Windows Azure AppFabric is Microsoft's next-generation middleware application platform in the cloud, providing access control with federated identity, high-density, multi-tenant component-hosting, caching services, on-premise connectivity, rich publish/subscribe messaging, and integration services...