Cloud Computing

A continuation of the previous session, this session, delivered by Ulrich Homann and Marc Mercuri, continues coverage of core concepts. Topics such as functional decomposition, business architecture, throttling, failure points, and failure modes.

This session, delivered by Ulrich Homann and Marc Mercuri, includes coverage of scalability and deployment considerations for scalable and resilient systems. Topics include scale units, fault domains and upgrade domains, resilient fault handling and circuit breakers, data decomposition, data…

Continuing their Building a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 SP1  series, Keith Mayer and Yung Chou walk us through the steps needed to dynamically optimize our virtual machines. Tune in as they show us how to set the reserve capacity for our hosts, balance VM loads, set-up auto live…

Yung Chou  and Keith Mayer and welcome Greg Shields from Concentrated Technology to the show as they discuss the differences between virtualization and cloud computing and how the two complement each other as well as how you can take the principles you learned from virtualization and apply them…

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Architecting for the cloud means understanding and embracing the fundamental aspects of it.  Commodity hardware at scale requires a scale out vs. scale up approach.  Commodity hardware fails and very few services provide 100% uptime SLAs.  This session, delivered by Ulrich Homann and…

In this episode Nick Harris and Nate Totten are joined by Senior Windows Azure PMs Michael Washam and Drew McDaniel.  During this episode Drew and Michael discusses the Windows Azure Virtual Machine General availability announcement, price reduction, new VM…

ActorFx is an MSOpenTech open source project with the goal of providing a non-prescriptive, language-independent model of dynamic distributed objects. This will in turn provide a framework and infrastructure on top of which highly available data structures and other logical entities can be…

David Aiken is a Technical Evangelist for Windows Azure. David is responsible for: ·         Bid Now Sample at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/BidNowSample. ·         Windows Azure Platform training kit and…

Scott McFarlane of Avalara talked with Warren Wilbee about cloud computing and its impact on their industry which primarily is around sales tax. Any tax solution is very much driven by various aspects such as the increase in spending during the holiday season therefore server load is…