
In part I of this blog post, we started comparing Windows Azure Blob
Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). We covered basic
concepts and compared...
0 replies - 3891 views - 05/15/12 by Gaurav Mantri in Articles

The Big Three - Scala, Clojure and Groovy.
The following is an article written by TheCodeGeneral (not too sure who he is, but is quite respected in the...
0 replies - 8771 views - 05/14/12 by Judah Johns in Articles

Effective Testing Strategies for MapReduce Applications In this article I demonstrate
various strategies that I have used to test Hadoop...
0 replies - 5978 views - 05/02/12 by Tim Reardon in Articles

I’ve been writing
now for a few years about Banking 2.0 – a general term that I use to
describe what financial services will look like when it...
0 replies - 6014 views - 04/28/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Last week, we talked about the some of the challenges
associated with the use of consumer mobile devices in business. This
week we wanted to dig a little...
0 replies - 3126 views - 04/27/12 by Andrew Fife in Articles

Wrong:
Right:
So, you’ve found the cloud application of your dreams. It does
everything you ever thought you could want and ten things you didn’t...
0 replies - 3802 views - 04/26/12 by Eric Berg in Articles

Summary – it’s a long post so here’s what you need to know. Amazon Web Services
is moving up the stack. Existing ecosystem partners will benefit from...
0 replies - 4176 views - 04/25/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

My OakLeaf Systems Azure Table Services Sample Project (Tools v1.4 with Azure Storage Analytics)
demo application, which runs on two Windows Azure compute...
0 replies - 4611 views - 04/20/12 by Roger Jennings in Articles

Looking past the politics of whose Cloud stack is the best for a
moment, the undeniable truth remains that no matter what you use, tools
to help deploy and...
0 replies - 4591 views - 04/19/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

I put together Java sample applications using Spring 3.1. Using
Spring’s Environment abstractions, we can gather details about the
underlying...
0 replies - 4273 views - 04/17/12 by Gordon Dickens in Articles

Paris, April 17th, 2012: Jenkins User Conference Jenkins, the
world’s most popular open source Continuous Integration server, and JFrog, the creator of...
0 replies - 2049 views - 04/17/12 by Shlomi Ben-haim in Announcements

Introduction Microsoft’s Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure
Community Technical Preview (Hadoop on Azure CTP) includes a Hive ODBC
driver and Excel add-in,...
0 replies - 5879 views - 04/12/12 by Roger Jennings in Articles

This morning, Amazon announced the release of their cloud-based search platform, CloudSearch, which the company has been using on their website for some time...
0 replies - 4996 views - 04/12/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Introduction Avkash Chauhan (@avkashchauhan) and Denny Lee (@dennylee)
have written several blog posts about the use of Windows Azure blobs as
data...
0 replies - 4301 views - 04/09/12 by Roger Jennings in Articles

As a vendor of security products, I see a lot of Requests for
Proposal (RFPs). More often than not these consist of an Excel
spreadsheet with...
0 replies - 3101 views - 04/06/12 by Scott Morrison in Articles