On most (or perhaps even all?) of the production servers I’ve worked on, antivirus/antimalware detection apps are often not installed for a variety of reasons – performance, risk of false positives or certain processes getting closed down unexpectedly, or the simple fact most production machines are under strict access control and deployment restrictions. Still, it’s a nice option to have, and it’s now possible to set this up easily in Windows Azure roles. Somewhat quietly, the team released a ...
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Tomorrow (Thursday, 3/15/2012) at noon ET or 9am PT, we have our first screencast in the @home series: an introduction to the @home distributed computing project! This is the first in a series where we’ll dive into various aspects of Windows Azure – in this first webcast, we’ll keep it 100 level, discussing the platform, how to get started, and what the project is about. From the abstract page: In this 100-level webcast, we introduce Windows Azure. We look at signing up a new account, evalu...
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Two years ago, Jim O’neil and I developed a quick Azure training program called “@home with Windows Azure” – a way to learn Windows Azure and have some fun contributing to a well known distributed computing effort, Folding@home. A few months later, Peter Laudati joined the cloud team and we developed the game RockPaperAzure. RockPaperAzure was a lot of fun and is still active, but we decided to re-launch the @home with Windows Azure project because of all of the changes in the cloud sinc...
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