Windows Azure Platform: July 14th Links

Slalom Consultant Joel Forman specializes in cloud computing and the Windows Azure Platform.

It has been a little while since my last link listing post for Windows Azure.  Here are some resources that caught my attention over the last several weeks:

• Windows Azure News from WPC:  The Worldwide Partner Conference was taking place in Los Angeles this week and here is a post talking about some of the announcements related to the cloud.
• Free Inbound Data Transfer Starting in July:  Windows Azure has updated its pricing policy to allow for free ingress to encourage the moving of data to the cloud.  Great new benefit!
• Windows Azure Deployments and the Virtual IP Address:  The question around how IPs are handled comes up a lot and here is a blog post that explains the Virtual IP in Windows Azure.
• Windows Azure CDN Helpers: An open-source project on Codeplex with helper classes for using CDN within your projects.
• Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles:  A great new accelerator to enable using Web Deploy to deploy websites to instances in Windows Azure.
• NoSQL and the Windows Azure Platform WhitePaper:  A great whitepaper, referenced in this blog post, around NoSQL technologies and options in Windows Azure.
• WIF Configuration Techniques with Azure:  A great post about how to set up your Azure web application using WIF (“Windows Identify Foundation”) in order to be able to update your configuration settings without redeploying.
• Windows Azure Team Blog – Consolidated: Several individual blogs around Windows Azure, AppFabric, and the Marketplace have been consolidated into one team blog to follow.

Happy reading….

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