Windows Azure

According to a post on the Gladinet blog, their company’s Windows software program called Gladinet Cloud Desktop can help Amazon S3 users easily migrate content from that online service to the new service offered by Windows Azure. To accomplish this, the Gladinet software integrates with Windows…

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…

Here is a quick video (4 mins 34 secs) to outline the Web based services that are part of the Windows Azure Platform.  The video calls out traditional options you have to inter-connect applications, and then the ways you can use the Service Bus to address communication, authentication and…

Here is a quick 4 minute walk thru of SQL Azure.  The video calls out how SQL thru Azure addresses such key needs as: High availability, fault tolerance and cost effective scaling up and down Re-using skills already in your org, like T-SQL expertise Offloading such commodity tasks as…

Here is a short walk thru of Windows Azure and the many ways it takes away your infrastructure headaches and lets your focus on the app you want to design, test and deploy at scale.  You will learn of the key building blocks: the AppFabric, storage and the resulting developer…

This is first of a series of brief, to-the-point videos on the Windows Azure platform created by folks in the team. This video offers an overview of the platform itself.  Developers get to focus on the code IT Pros can shift focus from commodity tasks to bigger problems of their…

Are you wondering how to get started with Windows Azure?  Join me in this quick video featuring Steve Marx as we walk through a simple 'Hello World' application in Windows Azure.  See how easy it is to get started using Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio - develop, debug, and publish…

In this geekSpeak, Windows Azure guru David Pallmann discusses Rich Internet applications (RIAs) and why Windows Azure is a fantastic platform for RIAs. David provides several examples of RIAs, and he explains how RIAs and cloud computing are causing a shift in software layers as we know them.…

Telerik is one of the more popular component vendors building good stuff for ASP.NET, Silverlight, and WPF.  I was intrigued by the interest they have taken in the Windows Azure Platform.  Naturally all the UI components just work on the platform with no changes required.  Telerik…

In this episode of Azure Lessons Learned I chat with Dmitry Sotnikov, new product research manager with Quest Software.  Quest, as you probably know, is a huge global ISV focused primarily on Systems Management software. Quest is an early adopter of the Windows Azure platform.  They’ve…