A really good (technical) blog post that describes the concepts around Private Cloud and how to build it and manage it with Windows Server and System Center and how to extend it to the Public Cloud (IaaS), running on Windows Azure . If you are in for...

Today is a major milestone for Windows Azure and all of Microsoft customers and partners. It was announced that Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Windows Azure Virtual Network now are generally available. These new services make it possible for you to...

More information can be found on this blog post , but Microsoft acquired cloud monitoring startup MetricsHub   - a participant in the Microsoft Accelerator, powered by TechStars . As an innovator in Active Cloud Monitoring, a technology that automates...

I just came across this great blog post describing the differences between SQL Server in Windows Azure VM and Windows Azure SQL Database. If you are looking for a solution to host your data in the cloud, definitely worth a read… There are several options...

A short while ago, a great whitepaper was published, that explains the differences between Windows Azure SQL Database service and SQL Server . The whitepaper can be obtained here and it drills into the architecture and performance evaluation techniques...

This is a really interesting whitepaper on the topic of Cloud Computing related jobs and their growth in the next couple of years. Interestingly 40% of new jobs should be created in the emerging markets (i.w. CEE/LATAM), which represents even bigger opportunities...

A new MAP (Microsoft Assessment and Planning) Toolkit was just announced with a new GUI and some really great features that help you asses your IT environment. The one that I like the most is related to migration of virtual machines in Windows Azure VM...

EU steps up in the efforts to move to Cloud Computing by launching European Cloud Partnership steering board. The ECP will develop common computing  procurement requirements for use by EU member states and create a common framework for cloud computing...

Windows Azure team just revealed all the work they were doing in the HPC space or as they dub it “Big Compute”. The results were so impressive they have certified Windows Azure to be among Top 500 Supercomputers in the world. The amazing part are also...

That’s the title of the article written by James Staten for Forrester Research and it actually nicely summarizes all the features, benefits and directions for Windows Azure. I particularly like the following excerpts as they nicely summarize the holistic...

I just hade some time to browse through and read portions of a new whitepaper that was released and titled: Best Practices for the Design of Large-Scale Services on Windows Azure Cloud Services . It is an amazing overview of core concepts around Windows...

I was just reading Tara Seppa’s blog post and she summarizes some of the Azure partner programs and resources in a really nice way . I suggest you to check out the Top 10 Windows Azure Resources post for sure and subscribe for the future updates. Enjoy...

Great insight on how to describe the SaaS business model by a colleague David Szabo… I would encourage you to visit CEE Cloud Insider site ( LinkedIn sign-in gets you to the premium content), if you are interested on how the business in the clouds will...

Hot from the press: “ Microsoft Corp. and StorSimple Inc. today announced that Microsoft has reached a definitive agreement to acquire StorSimple , a leader in Cloud-integrated Storage (CiS) solutions. The addition of CiS will advance Microsoft’s Cloud...

I was lately in many conversations around the IO performance of the disk drives on top of Windows Azure (especially if running disk intensive applications or servers, like SQL Server). As Windows Azure provides storage on the standardized set of commodity...