New Services and Functionality

A myriad of new Windows Azure services and functionality were unveiled
today.   These include:

• An update to the Windows Azure SDK that includes a Web Deployment Tool to
  simplify the migration, management and deployment of IIS Web servers, Web
  applications and Web sites. This new tool integrates with Visual Studio 2010
  and the Web Platform Installer.  This update will ship later today.
• Updates to the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control service, which
  provides a single-sign-on experience to Windows Azure applications by
  integrating with enterprise directories and Web identities.
• Release of the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service in the next 30 days,
  which will accelerate the performance of Windows Azure and SQL Azure
  applications.
• A community technology preview (CTP) of Windows Azure Traffic Manager, a
  new service that allows Windows Azure customers to more easily balance
  application performance across multiple geographies.
• A preview of the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) for Internet
  Information Services (IIS) Smooth Streaming capabilities, which allows
  developers to upload IIS Smooth Streaming-encoded video to a Windows Azure
  Storage account and deliver that video to Silverlight, iOS and Android Honeycomb
  clients.