Tag: cloud computing training

The fact that Cloud Computing is important and impacts business is no longer an ‘if’ question. It is definitely now a ‘how’ question. How can Cloud Computing be best used by my organization to bring significant business and technical benefits? This is not an easy questions for many reasons including: Cloud Computing is many different […]

From May 24 to 27, I will be teaching Learning Tree course 2602: Windows Azure Platform Introduction in New York City. The course is filling up fast, but there is still time to sign up. Learning Tree New York City In New York, Learning Tree is located in downtown Manhattan at One New York Plaza. […]

Recently, the United States Chief Information Officer, Vivek Kundra, published a 25 point plan to reform the government’s IT management. Point number 3 states that the government should shift to a “Cloud-First” policy. When describing that point, Mr. Kundra tells of a private company that managed to scale up from 50 to 4,000 virtual servers […]

Recently Amazon released Elastic Beanstalk, as reported by Kevin Kell. This is interesting product release from both a technical and business perspective. From a technical perspective, Platform as a Service has many advantages over Infastructure as a Service (IaaS) from zero administration to pay per use. However, PaaS offerings from providers such as Google App […]

This is the fourth in a series of Microsoft Windows Azure training articles. In the last article, Windows Azure Training Series: Creating Your First Azure Project, we created a simple Azure application and in the next article we will deploy it. First, we need to understand Windows Azure roles though. Windows Azure Roles Overview To use […]