Cloud Architecture

Live Q&A with Jean Lozano. CLD280 - Lessons Learned From Building a Digital Asset Management System in the CloudIn this session, Jean Lozano discusses various development strategies that he and his team learned while ramping up development on Windows Azure. You'll learn the lessons they learned…

Read full post >> Host Jonathan Rozenblit is always on the search for stories of Canadian developers who have either built new applications using Windows Azure services or have migrated existing applications to Windows Azure. Canada Does Windows Azure shares their stories. This is the story of…

(Photo by John Kerstholt) The notion that non-tech-industry people should care about cloud computing continues to weasel its way into mainstream media and popular culture, most recently with a slew of stories about how last week's East Coast storms were to blame for the unscheduled downtime that…

Host Jonathan Rozenblit is always on the search for stories of Canadian developers who have either built new applications using Windows Azure services or have migrated existing applications to Windows Azure. Canada Does Windows Azure shares their stories. This is the story of Frozen Mountain. FROZEN…

Manuvir Das discusses the current state of Windows Azure. The last time we spoke was at last year's PDC when we announced Azure to the world. Here, we dig into hat's new today with Azure. How have people used Azure over the past year? What worked? What didn't work? Tune in. It's always great…

Matt Deacon, host of Talking Architects talks to Neil Ward-Dutton from the Industry Analyst firm MWD Advisors about the value of IASA, of architects and what they all think of cloud computing!

SOASTA based in California, the company offers both internally installed and cloud-based testing applications.  SOASTA developed a cloud-based testing application that it now deploys on the Windows Azure platform. Their CloudTest Service Helps Performance-Testing Firm Simulate Real-World…

Cloud computing is one of the hottest topics in information technology today.  With all the confusion surrounding acronyms ending in ‘aas’ like Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) it can be intimidating for even seasoned IT…

News on Azure Services has been abuzz at PDC.   One of the most impressive elements on the PDC Show floor has been a Windows Azure showcase container.  Designed by Microsoft and built by Dell, this impressive piece of hardware is a key for our datacenter strategy…

The Architecture Innovation Cafe presents Michael Stiefel on Software as a Service in the Cloud - Architecting and building a Software as a Service application requires solving a series of problems that are independent of a particular software platform. Michael discusses three areas of focus…