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Simple Calculator for Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon S3 Pricing

A few months back, I wrote a few blog posts comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon S3 services. You can read those blog posts...

0 replies - 6464 views - 09/06/12 by Gaurav Mantri in Articles

Securing Your Data in the Cloud: Key Management Hell

When you start migrating to the cloud, you'll invariably find that you need to encrypt some or all of the data you store there. Apart from the performance...

0 replies - 2175 views - 09/05/12 by Frank Kelly in Articles

Cloud-Aware Applications and PaaS Architecture

David Linthicum has an excellent post bashing vendor-driven Cloud ‘thought leadership’ and Cloud offerings.  Dave’s summer 2012 outlook on the Cloud...

0 replies - 2904 views - 09/05/12 by Chris Haddad in Articles

Thoughts from VMworld 2012 (San Francisco)

A few weeks ago, I wrote my pre-show thoughts about VMworld 2012. Much of it was focused on the need for VMware to diversify their technology and business...

0 replies - 4164 views - 09/04/12 by Brian Gracely in Articles

Uptime Report for My Azure Table Services Sample Project: August 2012 = 99.92 %

My (@rogerjenn) live OakLeaf Systems Azure Table Services Sample Project demo runs two small Windows Azure Web role instances from Microsoft’s South...

0 replies - 2837 views - 09/04/12 by Roger Jennings in Articles

Must-See Talks at CloudOpen and LinuxCon

Must-See Talks at CloudOpen and LinuxCon If you’re attending CloudOpen and LinuxCon this week, you’ll have the opportunity to see a number of talks...

0 replies - 1765 views - 09/03/12 by Build A Cloud in Articles

Big Data Apps and Big Data PaaS

Enterprises no longer have a lack of data. Data can be obtained from everywhere. The hard part is to convert data into valuable information that can...

0 replies - 2823 views - 09/02/12 by Maarten Ectors in Articles

Join a Google+ Hangout About Open Cloud

The discussion around open versus closed in the cloud is reaching fever pitch but what does it all mean? Many people have but the loosest understanding of...

0 replies - 1668 views - 09/02/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

More on Windows Azure's New Mobile Services

Earlier today Microsoft announced a few new updates for Windows Azure.  This included a new Windows Azure feature, Windows Azure Mobile Services, as well...

0 replies - 2842 views - 09/02/12 by Michael Collier in Articles

Realigning Java EE 7 - A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.

The news came out yesterday. Java EE 7 is going to be realigned and the PaaS enablement and multi-tenancy support will be moved to Java EE 8. While the...

2 replies - 3822 views - 08/31/12 by Markus Eisele in Articles

Five Criteria of Next Generation Data Warehouse

A few months ago, Jeff Kelly published a comprehensive article that captured the current state of Big Data and Hadoop nicely and laid out the blueprint of...

0 replies - 2985 views - 08/30/12 by Sadayuki Furuhashi in Articles

AppFog Aquires Nodester

As PaaS continues to generate ever-increasing levels of attention, the velocity of innovation in the space ramps up. Alongside this innovation, and in an...

0 replies - 1895 views - 08/30/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Introducing Windows Azure Mobile Services

Today I’m excited to share that the Windows Azure Mobile Services public preview is now available. This preview provides a turnkey backend cloud solution...

0 replies - 2273 views - 08/30/12 by Clint Edmonson in Articles

Evolutionary and Revolutionary Clouds

Now that we are a couple of years into the great cloud journey is it pretty clear that the big bang theory of cloud conversion is ain't...

1 replies - 2463 views - 08/27/12 by Chris Keene in Articles

Windows Azure Cloud Services and Virtual Networks

Windows Azure has historically been a pure PaaS solution with the deployment unit for compute being a hosted service comprising an optional web role and...

0 replies - 2099 views - 08/27/12 by Neil Mackenzie in Articles