Meet the new Windows Azure
It was hard to keep up with Scott Guthrie’s keynote address pre-empted by his blog post earlier today. A quick summary in the Spring Release Windows Azure fact sheet might help. One of the key prominent underlying messages was Microsoft is Open in the Cloud. Whatever your technical task, operating system, client or development environment Windows Azure is able to assist.
Later this morning we heard from our Microsoft technical community friend David Aiken about Pottermore, the official Harry Potter website built on Windows Azure. The site, has attracted a billion page views in its first two weeks
if you missed out on all this don’t worry… You can watch the replay or MEET WINDOWS AZURE ONLINE – 14th June 1-3pm AEST
In addition to the many changes there are many service updates, new services lower pricing, more world-wide availability and general availability of preview features.
Resources worth viewing:
- Windows Azure Virtual Machines – Part I (Windows)
- Windows Azure Virtual Machines – Part II (Linux)
- and many more here
Partnerships:
There are so many others sharing our news and excitement. The following preview partners made their own announcements
Agreeya Mobility |
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Aprenda |
Joyent |
SendGrid |
BitNami |
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Its no wonder that Forrester analyst, James Staten is saying in his post Microsoft Moves to Level the Cloud Platform Playing Field”
“Only Microsoft, as of today, offers the broadest IaaS and PaaS from a single vendor cloud platform.”
Comments
Anonymous
June 07, 2012
When will the new stuff be available to play with? The new portal is still in preview mode and half the things I want to look at are disabled.Anonymous
June 07, 2012
Hi Todd, I believe we are progress of making available a certain number of preview requests enabled across our DCs. For now the best bet is for your Azure subscription, request access on the ‘Preview Features’ page under the ‘Account’ tab. If you really need it and haven't received a pass email me and Ill ask.