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RSS azureMicrosoft mega datacentre heads to Dublin
News Both the new sites are intended to support Microsoft's online services, including its Azure hosted services and the recently introduced Bing search engine. Microsoft on Wednesday launched a new datacentre in Dublin,... [02 Jul 2009]
Microsoft's Hohm wants to help you cut your gas bill
News It's also one of the first commercial services to launch running on Windows Azure, the cloud-based operating system that Microsoft introduced last year. Microsoft's move into the energy monitoring business may sound like... [25 Jun 2009]
Testing times for the cloud: IBM gets involved
News IBM's focus on development mirrors moves by Microsoft with Azure and Google with App Engine. IBM is ramping up its cloud computing activities with a push into services to help businesses develop and test their own clouds. [17 Jun 2009]
Live Webcast: All About Azure
White Paper Azure, Microsoft's cloud-computing platform, is still a mystery to many Microsoft developers, customers, partners (and even competitors). The final version of Azure is going to launch this fall -- with... [17 Jun 2009]
Let's talk money: Microsoft ready to lift the lid on Azure
News Microsoft plans to announce next month more of the business details behind its Windows Azure operating system. The company has said it will run Azure applications in its datacentres and will charge users... [16 Jun 2009]
Start-ups ditched as companies fight the crunch
News Mike Kwatinetz, a venture capitalist at Azure Capital Partners, said internet companies often make mistakes because they covet a start-up without taking a long, hard look at how well the acquisition would fit into their... [08 Jun 2009]
Microsoft's Ray Ozzie: 'Cloud won't make us as much dosh'
News Microsoft has made only tentative steps into the cloud arena so far but has been investing in datacentres to house customers' data and later this year is expected to unveil its 'Azure' platform, which will allow... [05 Jun 2009]
Cheat sheet: Windows Azure
Cheat Sheet Azure: is that blue or purple? Dynamics, however, will also figure in Azure Services Platform. So what else is Microsoft doing with this Azure cloud computing malarkey? Windows... [02 Jun 2009]
MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Windows Azure Storage Services With John Croft (Level 200)
White Paper Windows Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting, and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. The presenter of this webcast... [28 May 2009]
'Biz in time will learn to trust the cloud'
News In October, Microsoft announced Windows Azure, a set of tools that is somewhat akin to a web-based operating system that developers can use to build software that can then run in Microsoft's datacentres. [21 May 2009]
Windows Azure Queue
White Paper This paper describes Windows Azure Queue, and how to use it. Windows Azure Queue provides a reliable message delivery mechanism. The Windows Azure Queues are highly available, durable... [01 May 2009]
Windows Azure Blob
White Paper Windows Azure is the foundation of Microsoft's Cloud Platform. Windows Azure provides: Virtualized Computation, Scalable Storage, Automated Management and Rich Developer SDK. Windows... [01 May 2009]
Windows Azure Table
White Paper This paper describes Windows Azure Table, which is the structured storage provided by the Windows Azure platform. It supports massively scalable tables in the cloud, which can contain billions of... [01 May 2009]
Introducing Windows Azure
White Paper The goal of Microsoft's Windows Azure is to provide this. Part of the larger Azure Services Platform, Windows Azure is a platform for running Windows applications and storing data in the... [01 May 2009]
Introducing the Azure Services Platform: An Early Look at Windows Azure, .Net Services, SQL Services, and Live Services
White Paper Using computers in the cloud can make lots of sense. Rather than buying and maintaining one's own machines, why not exploit the acres of Internet-accessible servers on offer today? For some applications, their code and data might both... [01 May 2009]
