Learn About Cloud Computing Using Cloud Computing
Apr 10, 2011
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 […]
Windows Azure Training in New York
Apr 1, 2011
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. […]
Government Should Consider Windows Azure as Part of its “Cloud-First” Strategy
Mar 4, 2011
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 […]
Contrast Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk with Salesforce.com
Jan 28, 2011
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 […]
Windows Azure Training Series: Understanding Azure Roles
Jan 22, 2011
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 […]
