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Starting last friday, April 9th, 2010, the Microsoft Windows Azure platform, including Windows Azure, Microsoft SQL Azure, and Windows Azure platform AppFabric became generally available in Israel and additional 19 countries, making our flexible cloud services platform available to a global customer base and partner ecosystem across 41 countries. On Feb 1st, 2010, we announced the general availability of the Windows Azure platform in 21 countries. In Israel, the currency for billing will be $ USD...
The videos from the keynotes yesterday are available from http://www.sela.co.il/s/dev4/dev4.html Go to the icon of the video and scroll the bar to the 48:30 minute to see the Windows Azure 25 minutes overview.
In this post I’d like to remind the key takeaways from the Windows Azure keynotes today. The purpose of the talk was basically to present answers to 5 questions: Why, What, Where, When and How…. Why should developers care about the cloud? (1) To save costs by paying to the cloud provider for what they consume and not upfront (2) To reduce the complexity for the developers of taking care of computation and storage resources that you can get from the cloud in a more elastic and manageable manner. What...
Wow, what an event! 1700 Developers and thousands more live through the Internet participated in the annual developers event. During the keynotes today, I had the pleasure of launching the cloud platform for developers, the Windows Azure Platform. In this post, I’ll talk about the end of my session that included a demo that was running on Windows Azure and its purpose was to present a questionnaire to the developers in the audience who use Twitter. The service in the cloud asked the audience 3 questions...
3 days ago, Maor David and I had the chance to co-present and speak on Microsoft’s recent announcements for the cloud. The “World Summit of Cloud Computing” as part of IGT took place in Shefaim convention center with 400 people attending. It was published as a global event and therefore it was all conducted in English. From the feedbacks we’ve got, people were very impressed from our roadmap and offerings for Public Cloud Windows Azure Platform , our Private Cloud with Dynamic Data Center Toolkit...
תגים:S+S, Software + Services, Dev, Azure, SQL Azure, Windows Azure, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Data Center Toolkit, Project Sydney, App Fabric, BPOS
A few months ago, I was approached by Diego Dagum, a dear friend and a great architect who also happens to be the Editor-In-Chief for the MSDN Architecture Journal . Diego asked if I would like to work with him on the SOA edition for the Architecture Journal as a Guest Editor-In-Chief. Looking back, I’d say it was a great experience to be able to impact the contents and vision of such an important edition that reaches 10,000s of architects around the world. The result was an Edition that discusses...
Throughout these moments, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Architect is announcing the general availability of the Windows Azure Platform. The Windows Azure Platform will provide Infrastructure & Management Services (Windows Azure), Database Services (SQL Azure) and Developer Services (.NET Services). In the next few months, Israel will be the first country in MEA to launch the Windows Azure Platform. In preparation for the launch, we will participate in the World Summit of Cloud Computing event...