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Cross-Post: Microsoft announces major expansion of Windows Azure services in Asia by Windows Azure

Editor's Note: The following is a post from Satya Nadella, President of the Server & Tools Business at Microsoft. As the worldwide demand for cloud computing continues to grow, so does Windows Azure. Microsoft is the only at-scale global public...

Windows Azure Store: Expanded Availability by Windows Azure

We are excited to announce that the Windows Azure Store is now available in 25 new markets, bringing the total count of supported markets to 36. The Windows Azure Store is the place to discover, purchase, and use premium data app services and data sets...

Cross-Post: Microsoft helps Costa Coffee brew sales data solution by Windows Azure

Editor's Note: This is a cross post from the STB News Bytes Blog. Last week, Microsoft announced an exciting (and tasty) example of its work in intelligent systems, business analytics and cloud computing. Costa Coffee’s iconic red Costa Express...

VM Depot delivers more options for users bringing their custom Linux images to Windows Azure Virtual Machines by Windows Azure

Happy New Year Windows Azure community! One of the first pieces of 2013 Windows Azure news is something that I am particularly excited about. Some of you might know that I was recruited to Microsoft in 2004 to help with the company’s approach to...

Cross-Post: Updates to Windows Azure (Mobile, Web Sites, SQL Data Sync, ACS, Media, Store) by Windows Azure

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...

ACS in Windows Azure Management Portal by Windows Azure

Howdy folks, Over the last few months as we’ve continued to add richer and richer capabilities into the developer preview of Windows Azure Active Directory (AD), one of the most common questions you’ve asked us is how Windows Azure AD and...
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Dashing through the clouds with Windows Azure scale by Windows Azure

Tracking Santa is a big job and this year the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) team, Windows Azure, Bing Maps and all of Santa’s elves worked together to bring you the Official NORAD Santa Tracker . NORAD has been tracking Santa...
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Windows Azure Active Directory Supports JSON Web Tokens by Windows Azure

Howdy folks, Just a quick note with some cool news. Many of you may not have realized that the developer preview of Windows Azure Active Directory (AD) supports the JSON Web Token (JWT). We just haven’t talked about it much in this blog or in our...
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Windows Azure now supports federation with Windows Server Active Directory by Windows Azure

Yesterday we shared that Windows Azure Active Directory (AD) has processed 200 BILLION authentications . Today I’m excited to share some great identity-related improvements we’ve made to Windows Azure that leverage the capabilities of Windows...
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Microsoft Acquires StorSimple by Windows Azure

In October I shared that we had reached a definitive agreement to acquire StorSimple, a leader in the emerging category known as Cloud-integrated Storage (CiS). Today I am excited to announce we have completed the acquisition and StorSimple is officially...
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Announcing: Comprehensive Updates to Windows Azure Customer Support Offerings, and Free Standard Support till Dec 31, 2012 by Windows Azure

As customers transition to the cloud, a number of tasks traditionally handled in-house become the responsibility of a trusted cloud provider. While the idea of using a vendor for technical support isn’t new, the role of Customer Support in the cloud...
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Enhancements to Windows Azure Active Directory Preview by Windows Azure

Howdy folks, I’m happy to have the opportunity to share with you another set of enhancements we’ve recently added to our Windows Azure Active Directory Preview. We were excited by the response we got from developers when we launched the Preview...
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Announcing: New System Views for Windows Azure SQL Database by Windows Azure

We are happy to announce the immediate availability of two new system views for Windows Azure SQL Database that provide diagnostic tracking information for your cloud databases. Within the master database of your SQL Database server(s), you now have the...
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Windows Azure’s Flat Network Storage and 2012 Scalability Targets by Windows Azure

Earlier this year, we deployed a flat network for Windows Azure across all of our datacenters to create Flat Network Storage (FNS) for Windows Azure Storage. We used a flat network design in order to provide very high bandwidth network connectivity for...
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Satya Nadella, President of Microsoft STB, at GigaOm Structure by Windows Azure

Today at 9:40 AM PDT, Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business (STB), will participate in an onstage fireside chat moderated by Derrick Harris, GigaOm senior writer, at the GigaOm Structure event. Tune in to hear Nadella...
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