Microsoft IT Starts Migration of Microsoft.com to Windows Azure Platform

The Video Showcase site on Microsoft.com hosts thousands of videos and other rich media content that hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide view every day. Learn how Microsoft Information Technology (MSIT) quickly built and deployed the Social eXperience Platform (SXP) on the Windows Azure technology platform to enable social media capabilities across Microsoft.com.

Windows Azure SDK

[Refreshed on September 1, 2010] The Windows® Azure™ SDK provides developers with the APIs, tools, documentation, and samples needed to develop Internet-scale applications that run on Windows Azure.

Scaling out with SQL Azure

This paper provides an overview on some scale-out strategies, challenges with scaling out on-premise, and the benefits of scaling out with SQL Azure.