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Thursday, September 02, 2010

Two New Nodes for the Windows Azure CDN Enhance Service Across Asia

by WindowsAzure via Windows Azure on 9/2/2010 9:32:00 PM

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 physical nodes available globally to 22, with six of these nodes available in the Asia-Pacific region. These two new locations expand our service in the Asia-Pacific region and enhance the delivery of performance-sensitive content for customers choosing to serve data through the CDN*. Please read our p ...

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Compression for Speed and Cost Savings

by Wayne Walter Berry via SQL Azure Team Blog on 9/2/2010 4:58:26 PM

SQL Azure doesn’t currently support page level or row level compression like the enterprise edition of SQL Server 2008. However, you can implement your own column level compression in your data access layer to take advantage of the performance and cost savings of compression. I will discuss how to do this and provide some example code in this blog post. Column level compression is the concept of compressing your data before you write it to the database, and decompressing it when you it from the ...

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Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Melvin Greer, Chief Strategist of Cloud Computing, Information Systems, and Global Solutions at Lockheed Martin

by WindowsAzure via Windows Azure on 9/2/2010 4:09:00 PM

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 Azure platform to develop the company's ThundercloudTM design pattern. Here's what he had to say: MSDN: Tell us about Lockheed Martin and the services you offer. Greer: Lockheed Martin is well known as a premier defense contractor. We are principally engaged in the research, design, development, manu ...

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