October, 2010

Congress should pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line. - Andy Grove

This is an odd post – I’ll say that from the outset. It really combines two topics, and both have to do with the cloud, at least a little. Some time ago I posted that I bought an iPad to demonstrate a cloud application. True, anything...

"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good." - Thomas Sowell

In a previous post I explained an overview of the storage options you have for Windows Azure . I’d like to pull back a bit today – because Windows Azure is often used as a single term, you might not be aware it actually is composed of three...

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. - Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Most companies I deal with are seriously considering a cloud strategy. When you evaluate the benefits of a platform as a service, it makes sense to do that. But some of the folks I talk to are those who buy, build, configure and administer systems like...

In the early days of computing, IT delivered computing using huge mainframes, accepting input from users, crunching the numbers and returning results to a very thin client - just a green-screen terminal. PC's came into the mix, allowing users a local...

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." Pablo Picasso

Most applications have four parts – input, computation, storage and output. I’ll write about all of these over time, but today I want to focus on how to choose the storage part of the equation. This won’t be a full tutorial, full of...