December, 2010

Getting started with Windows Azure isn't as tricky or daunting as you may think. After all, its familiar tools, with your end product (an application) residing in a different place. I'd concur with my colleague Tom Hollander who argued recently that the...

As it customary this time of year there are many predictions for the coming year. Here are a few I have been sent and read I thought worth re-sharing: 2011 Cloud Computing Predictions For CIO’s And Business Technology Leaders I've often been asked, how...

This week the digital nativity video has been doing the rounds in Facebook and email. Very clever it is too. You can see the excentric YouTube Video for yourself here: Now literally thinking, how could the cloud (and Windows Azure specifically) have helped...

Local Overview Regional Update: Fujitsu and Microsoft weigh up Data Center in Japan   Readiness & Resources Reading: 2010 Year End Security Wrap “Cloud 9 or Cloud Crime ” Microsoft Azure Cloud – Top 20 Lessons Learned about MSFT’s PaaS DataMarket...

Local Overview NICTA, ANU and CSIRO partner with Microsoft – Windows Azure   Readiness & Resources Reading: Observations from the Gartner data center conference “Yes, we’re using the public cloud but we’re in denial about it”. Cute article series...

Local Overview Local Azure specialist Tom Hollander writes about full IIS differences from Hosted Web Core (HWC)   Readiness & Resources Reading: Re-Introducing the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service Watching: Windows Azure BootCamp...

Most enterprises are being charged with a wholesale review of their applications and infrastructure to meet the hype, and sometimes reality, that is Cloud. It is my personal opinion that enterprise developers need to start their training, experiment and...