The cloud is here. Time to strap your boots on and wade in. Attend a boot camp, or start your own to get up to speed today.

Cerebrata is a Sponsor!

Cerebrata has donated copies of their awesome Cloud Storage Studio product. We will be giving one copy away at each boot camp while supplies last. We use their tools all the time, and many of our demos and screenshots are done with their products. Winners will need to provide their name and email address to Cerebrata to activate their software key.

Don't fear if you don't win a copy. You can use their demo to access developer storage without a problem.

Cerebrata Software, a Microsoft Registered Partner and a BizSpark Program member is an ISV based out of India. Cerebrata specializes in developing utilities for Microsoft platform especially Windows Azure. At this time Cerebrata has two main products for Windows Azure: Cloud Storage Studio & Azure Diagnostics Manager.

Cloud Storage Studio is a rich desktop client for managing Windows Azure Storage and applications hosted in Windows Azure. Built using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Cloud Storage Studio allows you to connect to both your cloud storage and development storage using one interface and allows you to manage your tables, blobs and queues. Using Cloud Storage Studio, you can also manage your hosted applications running in Windows Azure. You can deploy applications in Windows Azure using Cloud Storage Studio and then manage the entire life cycle of your applications. Cloud Storage Studio is currently available commercially. More information about Cloud Storage Studio can be found on our website: http://www.cerebrata.com/Products/CloudStorageStudio.

Azure Diagnostics Manager is a rich desktop client for viewing and managing the diagnostics data logged by your applications running in Windows Azure. Built using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Azure Diagnostics Manager allows you to view events, performance counters, trace logs, infrastructure logs, IIS logs, IIS failed request logs, and crash dumps. You can download the diagnostics data on your desktop as well for further analysis. Azure Diagnostics Manager also allows you to manage the diagnostics information remotely as well as perform transfer of diagnostics data on demand. Azure Diagnostics Manager is currently in private beta. More information about Azure Diagnostics Manager can be found on our website: http://www.cerebrata.com/Products/AzureDiagnosticsManager where you can also sign up for private beta as well.