Windows Azure Virtual Machine is Here!

On June 7, 2012 in San Francisco, Scott Guthrie encouraged the world to Meet the New Windows Azure . As part of this milestone, Scott announced the availability of several Windows Azure Preview Features including a new Virtual Machine capability. This exciting new Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering makes it possible to deploy fully functional virtual machine environments in the cloud that can function independently, extend your on-premise IT environment using Virtual Networks, and interoperate with other Windows Azure cloud service offerings.

Are you interested in running SQL Server in a Windows Azure Virtual Machine? Then check out the SQL Server on Windows Azure Virtual Machine Early Adoption Cook Book at:

https://bit.ly/sqliaascookbook

It’s a work in progress and we’ll be adding lots of great stuff in the coming weeks!