see also http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2012/04/26/here-s-to-the-first-release-from-ms-open-tech-redis-on-windows.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/

see also http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2012/04/26/here-s-to-the-first-release-from-ms-open-tech-redis-on-windows.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2012/04/26/... for more details and reference to dmajkic project. The main difference here seems to be they managed to do the asynchronous persistence without a fork. They also mention in the comments that they are planning to release it for Azure.