The Jan 4th edition is now live at 31 Days of Servers in the Cloud – Servers Talking in the Cloud (Part 4 of 31). Matt Hester teaches us how to connect to other cloud servers on Windows Azure 

You can find the landing page for the 31 day series at http://aka.ms/iaas31

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