While at the PDC, I had the opportunity of participating in a Channel 9 interview with Ben Riga and Ryan Dunn.  Microsoft unveiled its cloud strategy at the PDC by announcing Windows Azure and .Net Services.  We had the opportunity of working with Microsoft before the PDC with these new services.  We took that time to port our CMS to support Windows Azure and SQL Data Services and were able to demonstrate our CMS running in Microsoft's Azure platform in our booth at the PDC.  This Channel 9 interview was to give our perspective as an ISV to key strategies that were instrumental to being able to port our CMS to support the new cloud services.

Our ADXSTUDIO CMS supports an on-premise install, a multi-tenant partner install, and a new cloud-based install into Windows Azure.  Our customers now have more choice in hosting facilities.

We are very thankful for the various Microsoft employees that helped us along the way.  One thing that I would like to say now is that Microsoft has a very strong partner program and they really walk-the-walk when they work with their partners - this isn't lip service.

If you are considering porting an existing website or web application to the Azure platform and don't really know where to start, watch this video for some of the key strategies.