One of the big new features of the Windows Azure Spring Release is the Windows Azure Virtual Machines feature, and as you has saw in the previous posts Hello World! Windows Azure Spring Release is Here! (IaaS, Media Services, Web Sites…) Part I and Part II deploy a new VM is pretty easy and fast,…
Your first SQL Azure Data Sync step by step
Hello everybody, this is our first step-by-step post about how to configure SQL Azure Data Sync in order to synchronize data between a SQL Server on-premise and an Azure SQL database. SQL Azure Data Sync enables creating and scheduling regular synchronizations between SQL Azure and either SQL Server (on-premise) or other SQL Azure databases. Is…
New Azure Virtual Machines Intensive Memory Instances
The new Windows Azure Virtual Machines Intensive Memory Instances are available now at windowsazure.com and in four flavors (plain Windows, plain Linux, with Microsoft SQL Server or with Microsoft BizTalk server), to do with them wichever you need…. This new intensive memory instances are a key piece in your infrastructure on Azure to enable you…
Hadoop on Azure. Big Data made easy – Part 1
Microsoft’s end-to-end roadmap for Big Data embraces Apache Hadoop™ by distributing enterprise class Hadoop-based flavors that will be available to both Windows Server and Windows Azure and as you probably know Hadoop on Azure is currently in Developer Preview (hadooponazure.com). The most impressive feature that you can find in the Hadoop on Azure service is…
Information Rights Management in Office 365 Documents
Microsoft has two methods to enable IRM within the Office 365 productivity suite (Word, Excel and PowerPoint). The first is to install the IRM services on a Windows 2003 or 2008 server, which enables integration within a corporate Windows domain. This integration allows a content author to select which users and groups from Active Directory…
SQL Azure Federations and the Entity Framework
Here we are, back from New Year holidays, fresh and eager to present you with the most interesting cloud news. We have an exciting 2012 ahead, so go ahead! In a recent post we presented the SQL Azure Federations feature, which provides horizontal partitioning for your database tier on SQL Azure. The current release of…
Windows Azure Virtual Networks now supports Software VPN devices
The Windows Azure team announced last friday new capabilities for cross-premises connectivity between Windows Azure and your on-premises, including the support of software VPN devices to create Site-to-Site VPN connections. With this new capabilitiy now you can use a plain Windows Server 2012 with RRAS (Routing and Remote Access) enabled to create the VPN connection…
Be ready to Transform the Datacenter
Bed of Cloud by Prashant Dobhal As probably you know (if not, now you know), Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 will be available for download evaluation version for elegible customers through the TechNet Evaluation Center on October 18, 2013. They comes with a lot of new features and more power to…
Do you know what Hyper-V Server is?
Sometimes I have heard in different circles that VMware has a “purpose built hypervisor”, and can be installed independently of the host operating system and free, while Microsoft’s not. The reality is that Hyper-V is installed under Windows Server (between the hardware and the host operating system). Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 is a hypervisor-based…
Massive new enhancements to Microsoft Azure
We are receiving a lot of announces from TechEd North America 2014, maybe one of the best are the massive new set of features and enhancements to Microsoft Azure, many of them very expected, the list of enhancements are: You can get more details about all this new features and enhancements from the Scott Guthrie…