Windows Azure: What’s in it for the Enterprise? by Windows Azure

In my role on the Windows Azure team, I get two questions all the time from our enterprise IT customers. For the ones who haven’t gotten comfortable with the cloud yet, they ask “why do I want this?” For those who have, they ask “but...

VM Depot repository off to a flying start by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

It's been just one month since Microsoft Open Technologies announced the early preview of VM Depot, a community-driven catalog of open source virtual machine images. Today we are proud to announce that the community has rallied to our call and already...

Installing Windows 2012 Server Core plus IIS8 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Installing Windows 2012 Server Core plus IIS8 isn’t as hard as you might think. At least it isn’t as hard as I thought! Server Core can be intimidating to long-time Windows users who expect to see the comfortable familiarity of … Read...

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...

Microsoft Access 2013: A Cool New Rapid Development Tool for the Cloud by Windows Azure

There are many frameworks for developers that are a good fit for Windows Azure SQL Database, and for that matter on-premises SQL Server 2012. In addition to the .NET Framework with support for languages such as C# and VB.NET, new JDBC, PHP and Node.JS...
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A New Milestone For Openness On Windows Azure by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Today Bill Laing, Corporate VP for Server and Cloud, announced a very important set of Windows Azure updates. With these new updates, Windows Azure is more than ever an open and easy platform to build and run applications in the cloud, and the place to...
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OSBC 2012: Advancing Interoperability in the Cloud by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

At the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco today, Sandy Gupta, the General Manager for Microsoft’s Open Solutions Group, along with Alan Clark, Director of New Initiatives and Emerging Standards for Open Source at SUSE, announced the...
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Mark Your Calendar—MEET Windows Azure Event Streamed Online June 7th by Windows Azure

One of the best ways to learn about Windows Azure is through our online events, free of charge, right from your favorite device. Today we are announcing a new event, MEET Windows Azure . Whether you’re just getting started or are a long time customer...
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FreeBSD to run as a first-class guest on Windows Server Hyper-V by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Today, at BSDCan 2012 , Microsoft and partners NetApp and Citrix announced upcoming native support for FreeBSD support on Windows Server Hyper-V. This move continues our commitment to extend support across platforms to the Windows Server Hyper-V solution...
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New Interoperability Solutions for SQL Server 2012 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I am excited to share some great news about how we are opening up the SQL Server data platform even further with expanded interoperability support through new tools that allow customers to modernize their infrastructure while maximizing existing investments...
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Cloud Computing to Enable Global Job Growth, According to IDC Study by Windows Azure

Today, Microsoft released a commissioned study from analyst firm IDC challenging the misperception that cloud computing is a job eliminator and suggesting that the cloud will in fact be a major source of job growth. IDC’s research indicates that...
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Update: Microsoft, Hadoop and Big Data by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I’m really excited to be able to give you an update on our strategy and product roadmap for big data, especially around our embrace of Apache Hadoop as part of our data platform. As you may remember, at the PASS Summit last October we laid out our...
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SAG Awards Drupal Website Moves to Windows Azure by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

The success of the recent Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards ceremony was buoyed by the move of its Drupal-based website hosted on internal Linux servers to one hosted on Windows Azure . The SAG Awards site is a highly visible, high-traffic website running...
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Microsoft at Node Summit by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

We are excited to be attending and participating at Node Summit in San Francisco this week. Among those Microsoft staffers on site are Server & Tools Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie - who participated on a panel about Platform as a Service...
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