Meet the new Windows Azure

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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.

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Partnerships:

There are so many others sharing our news and excitement. The following preview partners made their own announcements

Agreeya Mobility

Cloud Share

Opscode

AppDynamics

Cloud9

RightScale

AppFog

Cloudant

ScaleXtreme

Aprenda

Joyent

SendGrid

BitNami

Lucid

Suse (Suse Linux)

Canonical (Ubuntu)

NewRelic

  

 

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.”