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New Type of Cloud Computing Vulnerability?
27 October 09 07:33 PM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

The MIT Technology Review magazine recently reported that next month Eran Tromer, a postdoctoral reseacher at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, will present research suggesting that Amazon’s EC 2, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud Read More...

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Windows Azure Service Managment API now in CTP
18 September 09 05:16 PM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   

The Windows Azure team released a Community Technology Preview of the Windows Azure Service Management API the other day.  This API is REST-based, and currently supports the following operations (according to the Windows Azure team blog): Deployments Read More...

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Intro to Windows Azure in one slide
07 July 09 03:27 AM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   

NOTE: Microsoft just changed the branding a bit so this slide needs to be updated - basically, the Azure Service Platform becomes the Windows Azure Platform, SQL Data Services becomes SQL Azure. Live Services leaves the platform (does not go away, but Read More...

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Ray Ozzie speaks on Google Wave
05 June 09 11:20 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Courtesy of Ina Fried , here’s Ray Ozzie speaking about Google Wave at Silicon Valley’s Churchhill Club.    In a nutshell, Ozzie compares Google Wave to Groove, and calls it anti-web because the ethos of the web is about open data formats, open Read More...

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From Cloudy in Seattle: The Easy Way to Install the Windows Azure Tools and SDK Pre-Requisites
22 April 09 12:46 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Jim Nakashima has a handy little post here on an easy way to get all the Windows Azure tools and SDK pre-requites installed.  The secret is to use the Web Platform Installer, which you can get here .  But read Jim’s post for the step-by-step Read More...

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McKinsey on the cloud: Nick Carr gets it right
20 April 09 06:33 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Was thinking about posting a response to the recent McKinsey report on cloud computing for large enterprises, but then came across Nick Carr’s post and he’s spared me the task.  :-)  Nick’s analysis is spot on, and is worth quoting a full paragraph.  Read More...

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Symmetry between SQL Server and SQL Data Services – video interview
13 April 09 10:32 PM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   

Patric McElroy, Group Program Manager of SQL Data Services team talks with Michael Cote of RedMonk about what’s coming with the new SDS, and where there will be symmetry with SQL Server.  Really nice interview!  This was recorded a few weeks Read More...

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Ever wondered how Windows Azure works?
22 December 08 03:28 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

David Lemphers has a post here that digs into a few of the details, and is worth a look.  And thanks to Steve Clayton for pointing it out.   See David’s post for pretty pictures and more details on how the VMs are apportioned, how much Read More...

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Live Blogging at PDC - Microsoft says it will offer ALL Enterprise software online
27 October 08 06:14 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Not moving to simple software as a service, but providing a choice of on premise or subscription from the cloud. Ray Ozzie calls has called this Server-service symmetry. And the online services will not just be “fixed” applications, but in the future Read More...

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Live Blogging at PDC 2008 – Ray Ozzie’s keynote: Introduce Windows Azure
27 October 08 05:32 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Headline: Windows Azure, Windows in the Cloud, released as CTP See the video stream here: www.microsoftpdc.com Key theme: Transformation toward services, and enabling a new generation of apps that span the pc, web, and phone Today: focusing on back end Read More...

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