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...
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...
Today I want to write about the .NET services new CTP which is part of the Azure Services Platform. The new CTP will resemble the final release that will be commericially available after PDC 2009 (November). The .NET services pillar of Azure provides higher-level libraries to make developers more productive. The purpose of the .NET Services is to extend the .NET framework into the cloud. .NET Services includes Access Control to help create secure connections between your applications and services...