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On Building Rails Apps on Heroku

The Build podcast  recently uploaded a useful 15-minute video on Heroku, a popular online platform for easy deployment and scaling of applications. ...

0 replies - 1778 views - 12/19/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

More Java and Python Support in Google App Engine 1.7.4

Last week, Google announced the last update for Google App Engine in 2012.  GAE 1.7.4 provides expanded EU support, as well as a new Maven plugin for Java...

0 replies - 2110 views - 12/18/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Back-end Data Services for Windows 8 Apps: Azure Mobile Services

If you've been following along with this series so far, you know we've come along way, from my overview of the series, which described the target scenario of...

0 replies - 1866 views - 12/18/12 by G. Andrew Duthie in Articles

US Centers for Disease Control on AWS

This 4-minute, AWS-sponsored video shows how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention use AWS in their BioSense 2.0 program.   This program helps...

0 replies - 1241 views - 12/18/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Alfresco-Cloud Content Management with a Hybrid Theme

The cloud content management world is fairly divided between those who believe a public cloud delivery model is the best option for customers (example,...

0 replies - 1814 views - 12/18/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

HP Discover–Awesome Potential But Massive Challenges

I recently spent three days in Frankfurt attending HP’s European event, Discover. (Disclosure – HP contributed towards T&E for the event)....

0 replies - 1728 views - 12/17/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Azure Helps NORAD Track Santa

Microsoft announced last Thursday that the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) team, Windows Azure, and  Bing Maps will be working together...

0 replies - 1513 views - 12/17/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

HP: Too Many Clouds

Hewlett Packard used its Discover event in Frankfurt last week to reassert the company’s cloud credentials. Public, private, hybrid; HP is painting...

0 replies - 1954 views - 12/17/12 by Paul Miller in Articles

Losing Control of the Heroku PaaS

I love Heroku and we have had great success with it. Yet, today, I find myself releasing heroku-forward, a gem born from frustration, that works around a...

0 replies - 2110 views - 12/16/12 by Daniel Doubrovkine in Articles

Treasure Data Working as an Alternative to Hadoop

Over the past year, we’ve done a lot to be proud of. We built a highly performant, Hadoop-based data analytics platform from scratch. For next-generation...

0 replies - 2773 views - 12/16/12 by Sadayuki Furuhashi in Articles

Cerebrata Story - Azure Management Cmdlets

Continuing Cerebrata journey, in this blog post I will describe how we built our 3rd product – Azure Management Cmdlets. In short this product contains a...

0 replies - 1854 views - 12/15/12 by Gaurav Mantri in Articles

Archive and Analysis with Amazon S3 and Glacier - Part 1

Since this would be a multi part article, here's an outline in terms of how the different parts will be arranged First we will set the context in terms of...

0 replies - 2878 views - 12/15/12 by Raghuraman Bala... in Articles

WNS Badge, Toast and Tile Reference

 Using WNS as part of your Windows 8 Store app? Digging into Windows Azure Mobile Services?  The Windows Notification Service is a key part of the...

0 replies - 2308 views - 12/14/12 by Chris Koenig in Articles

How to Setup a Free MediaWiki on Heroku

I had to setup a wiki for some project, and thought of using Heroku for this purpose. Heroku doesn’t cost anything for 1 dyno, and comes with a bundled...

0 replies - 1761 views - 12/14/12 by Ron Gross in Articles

Tracing the Thin Line Between IaaS and PaaS

Over the years Cloud Computing has been distinguished by three models of offering namely Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and...

2 replies - 3002 views - 12/14/12 by Raghuraman Bala... in Articles