Wintellect, a consulting, training, and debugging firm specializing in Microsoft technologies and platforms, is pleased to announce that it has been selected by Microsoft to become a member of its Windows Azure Circle program – an invitation-only program available exclusively to Microsoft’s top Azure partners.

Azure Circle Partners are a select group who support all aspects of Microsoft’s cloud platform and have an interest in developing and growing their Windows Azure business. Membership signifies the company is focused on helping customers build and implement custom application development for the platform-as-a-service model.

"We are honored to be selected by Microsoft for the Azure Circle program," said Todd Fine, Wintellect’s Vice President and General Manager of Consulting. "This achievement acknowledges Wintellect’s investment in delivering outstanding consulting and training on the Azure cloud computing services platform, and serves to demonstrate the level of quality and expertise that we have been able to put together on Azure, both on the training side as well as the consulting side.”

Wintellect offers Windows Azure related consulting and training services and has extensive experience working closely with Microsoft to migrate customers to the Azure platform. In fact, Wintellect has created much of the content for one of Microsoft’s Azure Roadshows, developed a series of Azure whitepapers available publicly on the Windowsazure.com site, migrated customer systems to the Azure platform, and performed a wide variety of other work within the cloud computing arena. Joining the Windows Azure Circle program – an invitation-only program available exclusively to Microsoft’s top Azure partners – now enables Wintellect to leverage additional joint resources with Microsoft for our customers, including vouchers for special Azure pricing, jumpstart services to help customers understand the benefits of Azure and get them up and running quickly, and other benefits.