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Tuesday, February 01, 2011

New Moscow Node of the Windows Azure CDN Brings Total Number of Nodes Available Globally to 23

by Windows Azure Team via Windows Azure on 2/1/2011 8:45:00 PM

We continue to add physical nodes to the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN to further enhance our ability to deliver performance-sensitive content around the world.  Our node in Moscow, Russia is the latest to go live. This brings the total number of Windows Azure CDN nodes to 23*. You can see a list of all 23 nodes in our previous blog post here. Offering pay-as-you-go, one-click-integration with Windows Azure Storage, the Windows Azure CDN is a system of servers containing copie ...

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Amazon S3’s Amazing Growth

by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 2/1/2011 7:58:00 PM

In a recent Amazon Web Services Blog titled '”Amazon s3 – Bigger and Busier Than Ever”, it documented Amazon S3’s amazing growth from 0 in 2006 to over 262 billion objects now. As we plot the same numbers on an Excel graph and apply an exponential trend line, it shows Amazon S3 grows almost exponentially. This graph is a living proof of the fast growing cloud storage market and Amazon S3 is leading the charge. If you are a small and medium sized business, you can leverage Amazon S3 to be ...

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New TechNet Edge Series Talks with Microsoft IT About the Company's Move to the Cloud and Windows Azure

by Windows Azure Team via Windows Azure on 2/1/2011 5:43:00 PM

Want to hear first-hand about Microsoft's own move to the cloud and Windows Azure?  Would you like to know more about the benefits, implications and strategies involved?  Then be sure to listen in to a new series of TechNet Edge interviews with top Microsoft IT executives as they discuss the company's move to the cloud.  The first interview, "What does the cloud mean to Microsoft CIO, Tony Scott?", aired last Wednesday and subsequent interviews will debut every Wednesday for the n ...

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Azure Anniversary and Customer Momentum

by Steve Yi via SQL Azure Team Blog on 2/1/2011 5:33:00 PM

  A Customer Spotlight Press Release today reminded us that we've reached the one year anniversary of the Windows Azure platform.  Given all the exciting developments and progress we have made over the last year, it is easy to forget that it's been only a year since SQL Azure was first available as a paid service!  For us, of course, the most interesting part of this journey has been watching the innovative ways in which our customers use SQL Azure. In January alone, we blogg ...

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Windows Azure Showcases Customer Momentum on its One-Year Anniversary

by Windows Azure Team via Windows Azure on 2/1/2011 5:07:00 PM

Since the Windows Azure platform became generally available one year ago, it has been adopted by customers across 41 countries who are creating new services and gaining greater efficiencies as they take their companies to the cloud.  Among them, T-Mobile USA and Xerox have moved to the Windows Azure platform to address customer needs quickly with innovative solutions that are cost effective and reliable. You can read more about these customer stories and the one-year anniversary in a press ...

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Windows Azure Emulators On Your Desktop

by BuckWoody via Carpe Datum on 2/1/2011 3:39:00 PM

Many people feel they have to set up a full Azure subscription online to try out and develop on Windows Azure. But you don’t have to do that right away. In fact, you can download the Windows Azure Compute Emulator – a “cloud development environment” – right on your desktop. No, it’s not for production use, and no, you won’t have other people using your system as a cloud provider, and yes, there are some differences with Production Windows Azure, but you ...

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OpenStack Connectors from Windows Platforms

by Jerry Huang via Gladinet Cloud Storage Blog on 2/1/2011 3:13:00 PM

Rackspace-led OpenStack open source cloud computing initiative hits its six-month milestone when the Internap XIPCloud launched last month, leveraging the open source cloud.  It is an interesting development as we have seen open source projects like Apache taking on Windows IIS and Linux taking on Windows in the past. At this stage of the cloud storage development, it feels like it is everyone-else taking on Amazon S3. For companies like Internap, it speeds up delivery of cloud storage to ...

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Real World SQL Azure: Interview with Eugene Shustef, Chief Engineer, Global Document Outsourcing, Xerox

by Steve Yi via SQL Azure Team Blog on 2/1/2011 9:40:00 AM

As part of the Real World SQL Azure series, we recently talked to Eugene Shustef, Chief Engineer in the Global Document Outsourcing group at Xerox, about using Microsoft SQL Azure  to build an innovative new printing service for mobile workers. Let's listen in.   MSDN: What exactly have you created with SQL Azure? Shustef: We've created a service called Xerox Cloud Print that allows mobile workers to print to any available public printer from their smartphones, iPads, and other mobile ...

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