Microsoft at Node Summit
We are excited to be attending and participating at Node Summit in San Francisco this week.Among those Microsoft staffers on site are Server & Tools Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie - who...
View ArticleSAG Awards Drupal Website Moves to Windows Azure
The success of the recent Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards ceremony was buoyed by the move of its Drupal-based website hosted on internal Linux servers to one hosted on Windows Azure.The SAG Awards...
View ArticleGigaspaces Working with MS Open Tech on Java Tools for Windows Azure
We’re pleased to announce that GigaSpaces Technologies Ltd, an established leader in helping enterprises move their Java applications to the cloud, has joined Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. and...
View ArticleEclipse Plugin for Java Developers on Windows Azure
I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java (by Microsoft Open Technologies), June 2012 CTP.This has been the most ambitious and technically complex...
View ArticleSymfony on Windows Azure, a powerful combination for PHP developers
Symfony, the popular open source web application framework for PHP developers, is now even easier to use on Windows Azure thanks to Benjamin Eberlei’s Azure Distribution Bundle project. You can find...
View ArticleDoctrine supports SQL Database Federations for massive scalability on Windows...
Symfony and Doctrine are a popular combination for PHP developers, and now you can take full advantage of these open source frameworks on Windows Azure. We covered in a separate post the basics of...
View ArticleMongoDB Installer for Windows Azure
Do you need to build a high-availability web application or service? One that can scale out quickly in response to fluctuating demand? Need to do complex queries against schema-free collections of rich...
View ArticleUsing the Cloudant Data Layer for Windows Azure
If you need a highly scalable data layer for your cloud service or application running on Windows Azure, the Cloudant Data Layer for Windows Azure may be a great fit. This service, which was announced...
View ArticleSimplifying Big Data Interop – Apache Hadoop on Windows Server & Windows Azure
As a proud member of the Apache Software Foundation, it’s always great to see the growth and adoption of Apache community projects. The Apache Hadoop project is a prime example. Last year I blogged...
View ArticleAccelerating Start-ups with open source, and Windows Azure Accelerators
In early 2012 Microsoft chose Tel Aviv, as the location for its first start-up accelerator. When the team at Microsoft Research and Development, Israel asked if MS Open technologies, Inc. could speak...
View ArticleImproving experience for Java developers with Windows Azure
From the early days, Windows Azure has offered choices to developers. It allows use of multiple languages (like .NET, PHP, Ruby or Java) and development tools (like Visual Studio, Eclipse) to build...
View ArticleNew plugin for Eclipse to get Java developers off the ground with Windows Azure
[3/22/2010 – 5:00pm – Updated – Added Installation instructions]As we said a few weeks ago we are hard at work Improving experiences for Java developers with Windows Azure. Today we’re announcing the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Interoperability at EclipseCon 2011
I've just returned from EclipseCon 2011, in wet and less than usually sunny Santa Clara California, and it's been definitely a jam packed and busy event with a lot of things going on. Interoperability...
View ArticleNew features in the April 2011 CTP the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with...
In case you missed the previous announcement, the plugin adds to Eclipse a set of wizards and dialogs which guide the Java developer through the configuration of all relevant projects settings when...
View ArticleMicrosoft + Joomla! at J and Beyond 2011
It is not that often that we have the chance to visit a medieval abbey in Europe…but that is exactly what we are doing this May: we are sponsoring and attending J and Beyond, a major Joomla! event that...
View ArticleNew SDK and Sample Kit demonstrates how to leverage the scalability of...
From the floor of the PHP Tek Conference in Chicago, with my colleague Peter Laudati, we’re excited to announce the availability of the Windows Azure SDK for PHP version 3.0. This Open Source SDK gives...
View ArticleMicrosoft + Joomla at J and Beyond 2011, Trip & Videos
On May 6-8, 2011 we took part in a major Joomla! event, J and Beyond, that took place in Rolduc Abbey in the Netherlands. It was indeed an exciting opportunity to connect with the community and in an...
View ArticleBuilding Java applications on Windows Azure gets easier with the new version...
I’m pleased to announce that the June 2011 CTP (Community Technology Preview) of the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java is now available for download. As the project manager and designer behind...
View ArticleWindows Azure Supports NIST Use Cases using Java
We've been participating in creating a roadmap for adoption of cloud computing throughout the federal government, with the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) , an agency of the U.S....
View ArticleNeo4j, the open source Java graph database, and Windows Azure
Recently I was travelling in Europe. I alwasy find it a pleasure to see a mixture of varied things nicely co-mingling together. Old and new, design and technology, function and form all blend so well...
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