One of the most useful tools to use in Windows Azure Development is the Windows Azure MMC. The Microsoft Management Console, or MMC, is the management console that many of the Windows Server Management interfaces can plug into. The Windows Azure Team has put together the Windows Azure specific MMC Console Plugin that is available... Continue reading →

The first thing needed is a Windows Azure Account, which is simply a Live ID. The easiest way to setup one of these is to navigate to http://www.live.com and click on the Sign Up button. If you have an existing account that you use to login it should display on this page also. Windows Live... Continue reading →

I’ve been looking into getting a blog, specifically Wordpress, into the cloud. Of course the first two I take a look at are Windows Azure and AWS. This is what I’ve found so far. Windows Azure… Amazon Web Services… Continue reading →

Recently Microsoft updated their Windows Azure Site with some new whitepapers. The cool thing is, some of these papers I was directly involved with helping to create! That makes me a little biased in saying, I’m stoked that they’ve been released! 🙂 So if you’re in the market for some cloud technology and happen to... Continue reading →

My Thoughts on This… I’m stoked that Amazon keeps releasing bigger and better bits. It appears Microsoft and Amazon are going to quietly go tit for tat on cloud features. For consumers of the cloud that’s awesome, anyone understanding basic economics knows that this is going to lead to bigger, better, faster, at a much... Continue reading →