Outages Hit Windows Azure; Microsoft Blames Leap Year (UPDATED)
Outages Hit Windows Azure; Microsoft Blames Leap Year (UPDATED) Redmond Channel Partner SQL Azure Reporting for parts of Europe has been down since Tuesday, 12:00 am PST. … for all Windows Azure hosted...
View ArticleHIPAA-Compliant #DocumentManagement Solution Expands Into Global Market by...
HIPAA-Compliant Document Management Solution Expands Into Global Market by … MarketWatch (press release) based document-management service that assures compliance with the Health Insurance Portability...
View ArticleHybrid, on-demand #BI with SQL Azure Reporting
Hybrid, on-demand BI with SQL Azure Reporting ZDNet Asia If you’re familiar with Microsoft SQL Server, you’re most likely also familiar with its SQL Server Reporting Services. Both SQL Azure and SQL...
View ArticleMicrosoft scrapes Windows Azure name off cloudy kit
Microsoft scrapes Windows Azure name off cloudy kit Register For example, Windows Azure Compute will now be Cloud Services, Windows Azure CDN is CDN, SQL Azure is SQL Database and SQL Azure Reporting...
View ArticleMicrosoft to take the wraps off ‘Antares’ hosting, Linux VM for Windows Azure
Microsoft to take the wraps off ‘Antares’ hosting, Linux VM for Windows Azure ZDNet (blog) It seems like it might be high time to deliver the promised SQL Azure Reporting Services; more details on...
View ArticleSQL Reporting for Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud goes live
SQL Reporting for Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud goes live ZDNet (blog) Microsoft announced plans for SQL Azure Reporting Services in the fall of 2010. The service has been available to testers since...
View ArticleIdera Discusses SQL Azure Basics and Benefits in New ‘Secrets of SQL’ Webcast
Idera Discusses SQL Azure Basics and Benefits in New ‘Secrets of … Houston Chronicle … today announced a new webcast in the “Secrets of SQL Server” series titled … scaling out with federations,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Tries To Outflank Amazon With Azure Upgrades
Microsoft’s move to add infrastructure and enhanced virtual machine support to its Azure platform gives its cloud offering the ability to match Amazon’s infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) product while...
View ArticleInstalling an Exchange 2010 Test Environment on Windows Azure
The following article details a configuration which is not officially supported by Microsoft for Production environments. You can read the official documentation about supported workloads at the...
View ArticleWindows Azure Updates: Android Support, SQL Reporting Services
By ScottGu – This past weekend we released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Mobile Services: Android support, East Asia Region Support, iOS dev content; SQL...
View ArticleFirst tests of Exchange 2013 on Azure point to the future?
Tony Redmond’s Exchange Unwashed Blog - A recent article by Rui Silvia describing how to install an Exchange 2013 test environment on Windows Azure started me thinking about how far we have travelled...
View ArticleTechEd 2013′s sleeper hits: Windows Azure, Windows 8.1, and Exchange
That’s a welcome enhancement from Exchange 2013′s current limit of 50, essentially reversing the reduction from Exchange 2010′s limit of 100. Microsoft also says Exchange 2013 CU2 may let you use Azure...
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Announcing Reduced Pricing on Storage
By StevenMartinMS – As you may recall from the April announcement, we committed to match Amazon Web Services prices for commodity services like compute, storage and bandwidth. Effective March 13,...
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Microsoft Releases Windows RT Azure RemoteApp Client
Microsoft released its Azure RemoteApp client for Windows RT devices this week. The release is noteworthy for Windows RT users because it represents a way for them to access apps that they can’t...
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Why running Exchange on Azure is an unattractive proposition
Tony Redmond’s Exchange Unwashed Blog – Well over a year ago, I wrote about the first reports of running Exchange 2013 on Azureand noted that this might represent a future deployment option. In a...
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Deploying an Exchange 2013 Hybrid Lab Environment in Windows Azure
Henrik Walther – In part 13 of this article series revolving around what the Windows Azure service is all about as well as how you deploy an Exchange hybrid deployment in Windows Azure, we talked...
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