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As you're hopefully aware, the main purpose of this group is to help expose people in the Twin Cities to cloud computing technologies. For the past 9 months or so we've been trying to do this by hosting monthly meetings as well as special events at the local Microsoft office in Bloomington. However, I know that you have busy lives. Between work, family, and other obligations it can be difficult to carve out a couple of hours each month on a particular day and time to get to the Microsoft offi

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I'm pleased to announce that Cerebrata has become a sponsor of the Twin Cities Cloud Computing User Group. Cerebrata's founder, Gaurav Mantri, has given me 12 licenses to Cloud Storage Studio to give away at our upcoming meetings over the next year. Here's some information about Cerebrata:

Cerebrata is a software product development company based out of India developing products for Web 2.0 platform using latest technologies. Cerebrata

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As you're aware I've been working in conjuction with RBA Consulting and Microsoft to put together and event on December 8th entitled Backstage Pass: A Day in the Microsoft CLOUD. We've got some great speakers lined up, like Jack Calhoun, along with some great giveaways, including a Zune HD. Howeve… Continue

There were a couple of Microsoft releases last week that provided updates to Windows Azure tooling that I wanted to make you aware of in case you hadn't see the news.

First Microsoft released the November CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2. This is an important release on the SQL Azure front because SSMS… Continue

{I've been meaning to post a quick entry on this, but I've been swamped with other tasks the past couple of weeks.}

On October 25th, Microsoft released the Windows Azure Service Management PowerShell cmdlets. These cmdlets allow you to script out and deploy, upgrade, and scale y… Continue