Today I presented on Cloud Computing at the Minnesota I.T. Symposium. Thanks to everyone who attended, the turnout was great! Even with the blizzard outside, it is good to see that people remain excited about the new developments in the industry.

I promised to upload a copy of the slide deck on here... so for those of you, here it is!

CloudComputing_General.pptx (1.51 mb)

We've been waiting for it for a while, and now the information is finally here.

Microsoft has released the following information:

Windows Azure:

• Compute @ $0.12 / hour
• Storage @ $0.15 / GB stored
• Storage Transactions @ $0.01 / 10K

• Web Edition - Up to 1GB relational database @ $9.99

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  Business Edition - Up to 10GB relational database @ $99.99

• Messages @ $0.15/100K message operations, including Service Bus messages and Access Control tokens