News from Azure cloud

This morning we released a massive amount of enhancements to Microsoft Azure.  Today’s new capabilities and announcements include:

• Virtual Machines: Integrated Security Extensions including Built-in Anti-Virus Support and Support for Capturing VM images in the portal
• Networking: ExpressRoute General Availability, Multiple Site-to-Site VPNs, VNET-to-VNET Secure Connectivity, Reserved IPs, Internal Load Balancing
• Storage: General Availability of Import/Export service and preview of new SMB file sharing support
• Remote App: Public preview of Remote App Service – run client apps in the cloud
• API Management: Preview of the new Azure API Management Service
• Hybrid Connections: Easily integrate Azure Web Sites and Mobile Services with on-premises data+apps (free tier included)
• Cache: Preview of new Redis Cache Service
• Store: Support for Enterprise Agreement customers and channel partners

 

For more details of each new capapbilities, please visit scott gu’s blog

 

New Azure cloud portal

Hi everybody,

since a long time from my last post (some post will be delivered soon), Microsoft has delivered a new portal design.

This design is more graphic and more user friendly. So it’s not for developer :P. I like this design but I think it’s not very usefull. It refer to windows 8 style with tiling. When you browse a section it develop it on the right side :

 

When you select an artifact, it develop it on the right side :

Then when you select a database :

this version is a preview I don’t know when they want to pass it as  standart.

 

 

Windows Azure Poster

Microsoft just released a new useful poster. This one describes all Windows Azure bricks.

All developers, architects or anyone else who work on Microsoft Azure must download it :

 

 

Free Microsoft Ebook

Hey,

Here are some links for those who like reading. Microsoft publish a list of technical books frees.

You can found books about :

• Azure
• Windows server 2012
• Windows 8
• Sharepoint 2013
• Windows phone
• Office
• and many more

(I’ve checked there is no BizTalk book 😦 )

the books are dispatched in three link :

• http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/11608.e-book-gallery-for-microsoft-technologies.aspx
• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2012/07/27/large-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-for-you-including-sharepoint-visual-studio-windows-phone-windows-8-office-365-office-2010-sql-server-2012-azure-and-more.aspx
• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2012/07/30/another-large-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-and-resource-kits-for-you-including-sharepoint-2013-office-2013-office-365-duet-2-0-azure-cloud-windows-phone-lync-dynamics-crm-and-more.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0

Now no one have a reason to say I can’t study, I must buy books

thanks to Eric Ligman