June 5, 2014
Microsoft Azure cloud platform now available in Brazil

“In Brazil, and our other regions around the world, we’ve seen incredible demand for a global enterprise public cloud offering,” writes Takeshi Numoto, corporate vice president, Cloud and Enterprise Marketing, in a blog post. “Globally, more than 1,000 new customers join Azure every day, and revenue grew more than 150 percent in the last quarter.”

May 1, 2014
New service tiers for SQL Databases on Azure now available

Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of the Cloud and Enterprise Group, writes that new features announced at Build are now available to start using in preview form and that you can choose which service tier works best for you.

April 18, 2014
Programmers: Naiad platform makes it easy to get data into Azure

During Microsoft Research’s recent Silicon Valley TechFair, the “Naiad on Azure: Rich, Interactive Cloud Analytics” project showcased an aspect of the big-data movement that focuses on enabling data analysts to develop an application and then deploy it seamlessly to the cloud.