What is Windows Azure? That's the question I was asking myself before I attended a Scottish Developers event at Microsoft's Edinburgh offices at Waverly Gate on Friday 9th September 2011.

Steve Plank gave an excellent talk on getting to grips with Windows Azure. Steve or Planky as he is known is a Microsoft Architect Evangelist.

So what is the Microsoft Windows Azure platform?

CES were delighted to both sponsor and attend the Edinburgh Drupal user group at the bright and spacious Informatics Forum in the centre of the University of Edinburgh's campus.

The day was split in to 2 streams, Business and Community. With experienced speakers from companies that develop and support Drupal on a global basis and Drupal users that benefit from using Drupal to manage their sites.