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An Introduction to Microsoft .NET Services for Developers: The .NET Framework for the Cloud

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Overview This whitepaper is the first in a series of whitepapers dedicated to Microsoft .NET Services, a core part of the Azure Services Platform. Microsoft .NET Services provides a set of developer-oriented building block services commonly required by cloud-based and cloud-aware applications. This overview paper introduces Microsoft .NET Services, each of its building block services, and how they fit together.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	WORD
Date Published	December 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Cloud Computing

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From Voice over IP to Unified Communications: Simplify System Management

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Publisher:
Shoretel

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voip - ip telephony

Top 7 Things You Should Know About Activation and Genuine Windows

As an IT Pro, you should be aware that volume activation is a required part of your Windows 7 deployment. This document provides you with the top 7 things...

Publisher:
Microsoft

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.net

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Publisher:
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Quest Connect Archive: white papers, demos and more!

Did you miss our virtual event? No problem! You can still get the latest information for Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server and more - without leaving your computer!...

Publisher:
Quest Software

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application servers

Nonprofit Agencies Respond Faster to Emergencies, Coordinate Activities

From the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami came the idea for a software solution that would speed relief efforts at the local, regional, or global levels. The Fritz Institute, working...

Publisher:
Microsoft

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.net

Microsoft's cloud has an Azure tinge

Dubbed Windows Azure, it's less a replacement for the operating system that runs on users own PCs than it is an alternative for developers, intended to let them write programs that live inside Microsoft's data centres as opposed to on the servers...

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Operating Systems
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Gates, open source, Azure and the cloud

Microsoft's cloud has an Azure tinge Sticking with Microsoft it soon broke new ground when it announced its internet-hosted Windows operating system, Azure, in October. Although there was a lot of interest around Windows 7, the successor to Vista...

Microsoft puts flesh on Azure's bones with pricing details

Microsoft has revealed more details, including pricing, around one of its most significant forays into cloud computing, the Azure Services Platform (ASP). Microsoft's cloud initiatives don't stop with Azure: the software giant announced yesterday...

easyJet sees the cloud's Azure lining

As more details of Microsoft's cloud computing Azure Services Platform (ASP) emerged yesterday, low-cost airline easyJet has revealed it's planning to trial the tech. ASP will be launched commercially in the fourth quarter of this year and includes...

Trial Microsoft's cloud SQL Azure Database - for free

In a move to capture a piece of the cloud computing pie, Microsoft announced its upcoming Azure Services Platform back in October last year. Today it unleashed a free trial of SQL Azure Database, the software giant's cloud-based relational database.

Cloud vendor shakeup on the horizon

Microsoft Azure (and .NET Services), which is kind of a hybrid approach somewhere between Amazon EC2 (cloud system infrastructure) and Google App Engine (APaaS), will hit general availability sometime soon.

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