A while back, mashups were all the rage. The idea was to compose solutions that provided aggregation and integration across applications and services to make information more available, useful, and personal. Mashups ushered in the era of Web 2.0 in all...

The cloud was tailor built for aspiring companies to create innovative internet based applications and solutions. Whether you’re a garage startup with very little capital or a Fortune 1000 company, the ability to quickly setup, deliver, and iterate on...

I was recently asked to do a presentation on managing Windows Azure applications with PowerShell by the Charlotte PowerShell users group .   At first I was a bit unsure about doing the presentation – with Jim Christopher and Ed Wilson in the...

This is the third (and final) post of my Service Bus mini-series which is more-or-less an in-depth follow up to my guest appearance on Mike Benkovich’s   Cloud Computing Soup to Nuts webcast series.  In Part 1 , we looked at using the WCF relay...

Enterprises are more and more dependent on their specialized internal Line of Business (LOB) applications than ever before. Naturally, the more software they leverage on-premises, the more infrastructure they need manage. It’s frequently the case that...

I have been helping CloudDevelop.org a little bit as they pull together their first event. It looks very exciting and I can’t wait to go. It is this August 3rd, at the OSU campus, which has great space. What I really like is that the event is about the...

Brian , Peter , and I are packing our bags for another round of camping in the cloud, and hope you can join us as we cover a number of topics on Windows Azure. We’re tying in a great lab too, so you’ll get some hands-on experience to boot – don’t forget...

In a recent post Persistent Systems introduced CloudNinja for Java -- a multi-tenant reference application designed to help the Java community develop Java applications for Windows Azure. It is available at github . This application is built on several...

The Cloud comes in many flavors, types and shapes and the terminology can be daunting. You’ve got Public vs. Private. vs. Home grown. You’ve got compute, storage and database not to mention identity, caching, service bus and many more. Then there are...

Drivers Nearly every company on the internet has a web presence. Many are merely using theirs for informational purposes. More sophisticated portals allow customers to register their contact information and provide some level of interaction or customer...