Building an OLAP Farm in the Cloud with Azure Virtual Machines - Part 1

The "OLAP Farm" is an Analysis Services architecture that makes use of remote partitions on the backend and linked dimensions and measure groups on the front end in order to support solutions where datasets and latency requirements simply can't be handled by a single processing server. It was discussed in more detail in the previous blog post - so if you're not familiar, stop now and check it out before continuing.