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Windows Azure has been growing significantly and adding more and more services, but something that has always missed has been a Windows Azure Scheduler service. The windows azure just release one version of it that seems to have potential but still in...
Windows Azure just had a very interesting upgrade as it was discussed at the MeetWindowsAzure event . This event basically showed how Windows Azure is moving and becoming even more powerful and at the same time incorporating the community feedback. In...
So as you might already know, June 7th will be the ‘Meet Windows Azure’ event online where Scott Guthrie and other technologists from Microsoft will present the Windows Azure platform. This will surely be a great event and in order to make it even better...
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to go and speak in Visual Studio Live @ Las Vegas as it was scheduled, due to an illness that made it impossible for me to travel, and stay in bed for a few days. But even if I wasn’t there I would like to share with you some...
With last week’s Windows Azure Outage I’ve learned some lessons and I already talked about some in the previous posts, in this one I’ll focus on Data Recovery, since one of the important part of the outage is that we get scared of losing our data. Fortunately...
As you might already know, Windows Azure had an Outage last week, and this generated a lot of “fuzz” around it, as well as when the same happened to Amazon last year, or even other providers. Based on these outages, lots of people are now saying that...
During this last week some friends asked me more about what are the Affinity Groups in Windows Azure, and their benefits since for some people this is nothing more than a way to logically group both Compute and Storage. In order to explain this we need...
This is a very interesting 5-day event on Microsoft Technologies that will be held in Orlando, and has tons of great sessions and speakers around topics like, Windows Azure, SQL Server, WCF, WF, Server AppFabric, MEF, Silverlight, WPF, Visual Studio,...
I was on Twitter and suddenly some remember that it would be interesting to write some Best Practices about using Windows Azure. Here are some of the ones I remembered: Get out of the way when you can. Send client directly to blob storage for static content...
Satya Nadella - President of Server and Tools Business @ Microsoft Connected Devices and Continuous Services Design Point Elastic resources Composable services data as a namespace Expose data as a first class namespace for other developers to use identity...
For those of you interested in a good book about Microsoft Windows Azure Development you should really read the “Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook” in http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-windows-azure-development-cookbook/book . Currently I’m...
Currently one very important space is the development of Applications for Connected Devices like Windows Phones, Windows Slates and so on. One important elements is that we are currently going more and more to Wireless, and so it’s important to understand...
Simon Davies @ Microsoft Not all applications, services and data will mode to or be created in Windows Azure Technology Fit – Windows Azure Service / Programming Model Data – some data will remain on premise Economics – not worth moving some applications...
Luis Alves Martins (Architect Evangelist @ Microsoft Portugal) How do we Start? Think BIG / Globally Multi-Language Multi-Currency … Start SMALL Start building things step by step, instead of trying to conquer all at once Think only on the Application...
Wade Wegner ( Technical Evangelist @ Windows Azure Team ) Why Phone + Cloud? The cloud levels the playing field The cloud provides larger pool of resources from which to pull The cloud provides a way to reach across device platforms Why Windows Phone...
Haridas (Software Developer Lead) Windows Azure Storage What is it? Scalable, Durable, Highly Available Cloud Storage System Pay for what you use Abstractions Blobs – Provides a simple interface for storing named files along with metadata for the file...