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For the past five years, Microsoft has been working with a diverse group of companies to develop the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard. The group of 20+ companies consisted of tech vendors, including Red Hat and VMware, and enterprises like JPMorgan Chase and Credit Suisse. The goal has...

This morning we released the v2.0 update of the Windows Azure SDK for .NET. This is a major refresh of the Windows Azure SDK with some really great new features and enhancements.  These new capabilities include: Web Sites : Visual Studio Tooling updates for Publishing, Management, and for Diagnostics...

This morning we released some great enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Virtual Networks : New Point-to-Site Connectivity (very cool!), Software VPN Device and Dynamic DNS Support Virtual Machines: Remote PowerShell and Linux SSH provisioning enhancements Cloud Services : Enable...

This Tuesday, April 23, we’ll be hosting Windows AzureConf – a free online event for and by the Windows Azure community.  It will be streamed online from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST via Channel 9 , and you can watch it all for free. I’ll be kicking off the event with a Windows Azure keynote in the morning...

This morning we announced the general availability release of our Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) support for Windows Azure – including our new Virtual Machine and Virtual Network capabilities.  This release is now live in production, backed by an enterprise SLA, supported by Microsoft Support...

On April 27, something very cool is happening. A bunch of Windows Azure MVP's and community activists are organizing a Global Windows Azure Bootcamp . This is a completely free, one-day training event for Windows Azure, all organized by the community, and presented in person all over the World. I...

Today we released some great enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Active Directory : General Availability release of Windows Azure AD – it is now ready for production use! Backup Service : New Service that enables secure offsite backups of Windows Servers in the cloud Web Sites...

We launched the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure, powered by TechStars , to give early stage startups full access to Windows Azure and to help them succeed by connecting each company to leading technical and business mentors . I’m happy to share that the new spring 2013 class features a healthy...

Today we released a number of great enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Mobile Services : HTML5/JS (CORS) Client + PhoneGap + Windows Phone 7.5 + .NET Portable Library support Web Sites : Mercurial Source Control + Dropbox Deployment support HDInsight : New service that enables...

This past weekend we released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Mobile Services: Android support, East Asia Region Support, iOS dev content SQL Reporting Services: Support in the management portal Active Directory: Support in the azure management portal, user...

My article has recently been published on this topic, go read it here: How to Coordinate Startup Across Multiple Windows Azure Instances

Sometimes you just need a quick comparison between cloud vendors and there features, this table attempts to do that without getting into which is better. Compute Azure Amazon PaaS Cloud Services N/A Websites N/A IaaS Virtual Machines EC2 Reserved Instance...

Learn to setup the CISCO ASA 5505 VPN device to connect with Azure Virtual Networks.

Earlier this month, the 10 startups in our Fall 2012 Accelerator class got the chance to pitch to a room full of investors, mentors and technology enthusiasts. Over three hundred people joined us on the Redmond campus to see the final pitches in person. Aseem Badshah, CEO of Socedo , using social to...

During the BUILD 2012 conference we announced a new capability of Windows Azure: the Windows Azure Store . The Windows Azure Store makes it incredibly easy for you to discover, purchase, and provision premium add-on services, provided by our partners, for your cloud based applications. For example, you...

Today we released a number of great enhancements to Windows Azure.  I blogged earlier today about the general availability (GA) release of Windows Azure Media Services .  Windows Azure Media Services provides everything you need to quickly build great, extremely scalable, end-to-end media solutions...

I’m excited to announce the general availability (GA) release of Windows Azure Media Services .  This release is now live in production, supported by a new media services dev center , backed by an enterprise SLA, and is ready to be used for all media projects. With today’s release, you now have...

This Wednesday, January 9th, I’m doing another online LIDNUG session .  The talk will be from 2pm to 3:30pm (Pacific Time).  I do these talks a few times a year and they tend to be pretty fun.  Attendees can ask any questions they want to me, and listen to me answer them live via LiveMeeting...

This morning we released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure.  These new capabilities include: Mobile Services (job scheduler support, Europe Region Support, Command Line Support) Web Sites (scale improvements, integrated source control) SQL Data Sync (support in the new HTML portal) ACS Management...

In October, I introduced the finalists for the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure, powered by TechStars . Over the past couple of months, these startups have been mentored by business and technology leaders, met with investors, learned from each other, and, most importantly, been building great...

A few weeks ago I posted about a number of improvements to Windows Azure Mobile Services. One of these was the addition of an Objective-C client SDK that allows iOS developers to easily use Mobile Services for data and authentication.  Today I'm excited to announce a number of improvement to...

Over the last 3 weeks we’ve released a number of enhancements to the new Windows Azure Management Portal.  These new capabilities include: Localization Support for 6 languages Operation Log Support Support for SQL Database Metrics Virtual Machine Enhancements (quick create Windows + Linux VMs) Web...

Last Monday I had an opportunity to present as part of the keynote of this year’s SharePoint Conference .  My segment of the keynote covered the new SharePoint Cloud App Model we are introducing as part of the upcoming SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 releases.  This new app model for SharePoint...

I’m excited to be presenting a keynote at the DevIntersection conference this coming Dec 9th->12th in Las Vegas.  This conference has an awesome set of speakers from a variety of backgrounds.  A number of people from my team (including Scott Hanselman, Scott Hunter and Daniel Roth from the...

This Wednesday, November 14th, we’ll be hosting Windows AzureConf – a free online event for and by the Windows Azure community.  It will be streamed online from 8:30am->5:00 PM PST via Channel 9 , and you can watch it all for free. I’ll be kicking off the event with a Windows Azure overview in...