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I’ve had this customer for about 15 years and they are the perfect candidate to move to Windows Azure. They are a small business.  Most of the employees are either on the road or working remotely.  Other than the few office workers, everyone is already accessing the data online.  There’s no dedicated IT staff managing […]

Defining product and project scope provides us with the critical framework for requirements development. In order to define the scope of the project’s end result (the product) and the project’s implementation needs (the project itself), it is critical to understand the difference between product and project scope and which one should be addressed first in […]

With the publicity surrounding Cloud Computing it is easy to form the opinion that Cloud Computing means using Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine or Amazon EC2. These are public clouds that are shared by many organisations. Related to using a public cloud is the question of security. What often gets missed in these discussions is […]

I recently commented on the Amazon AWS rapid rate of innovation. On a similar theme comes todays announcement of Amazon Compute Cluster instances for Amazon EC2. These instances are specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications and network bound applications. During a recent teach of Learning Tree’s Cloud Computing course, when discussing architectures, topologies and […]

In a previous post we explored exposing an endpoint in a worker role to the outside world. Here we will examine one way to implement communication between worker roles internally. Basically, the idea is this: Figure 1 Direct Role to Role Communication in Windows Azure We could implement an architecture where all worker roles communicate […]