Azure continues to improve their services. Just in the past week they have announced their new “G-Series” VMs, some of the most powerful VMs offered by any cloud provide. Check out the details here…

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/01/08/largest-vm-in-the-cloud/

Also, if you have been considering using Azure as a DR site as I describe in my blog post, https://clusteringformeremortals.com/2014/01/14/creating-a-multi-site-cluster-in-windows-azure-for-disaster-recovery-azure-cloud/ you will be happy to know that you can get a 6 month trial of ExpressRoute for FREE! ExpressRoute will help you connect your on-premise datacenter into Azure with a fast secure connection. Check out the announcement here…

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/01/12/azure-data-center-migration-just-got-easier/