September 8, 2010
[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.]This is the second part in a multi-part blog series about securing your connection string in Windows Azure. In the first blog post (found here) a…
September 7, 2010
[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.]One of the challenges you face in running a highly secure SQL Azure environment is too keep your connection string to SQL Azure secure. If you are…
September 3, 2010
To prevent your Windows Azure applications from potentially experiencing a loss of availability during platform upgrades, we recommend deploying more than one instance of your web-facing roles. Doing…
September 2, 2010
Check out the new post, "Cloud Computing a Catalyst for Server Growth?" on the Windows Server blog to read a good commentary in response to yesterday's Computerworld article, "Cloud computing by the…
September 2, 2010
We are happy to announce that two additional nodes for the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network are now live in Seoul, Korea and Taipei, Taiwan. These two new nodes bring the total number of CDN…
September 2, 2010
[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.]SQL Azure doesn’t currently support page level or row level compression like the enterprise edition of SQL Server 2008. However, you can implement…
September 2, 2010
As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, we talked to Melvin Greer, Chief Strategist of Cloud Computing, Information Systems, and Global Solutions at Lockheed Martin, about using the Windows…
August 31, 2010
[This article was contributed by the SQL Azure team.]Liam Cavanagh has posted a webcast to Channel 9 that shows you how to extend the capabilities of SQL Azure Data Sync by writing a custom sync…
August 31, 2010
You may have seen a letter in USA Today this morning suggesting that customers evaluating a licensing agreement with VMWare talk to Microsoft to learn more about how products and services such as the…
August 30, 2010
As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, we talked to Sinclair Schuller, CEO at Apprenda, about using the Windows Azure platform to deliver the company's middleware solution, which helps…