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Windows Azure Blob

Windows Azure is the foundation of Microsoft's Cloud Platform. It is the "Operating System for the Cloud" that provides essential building blocks for application developers to write scalable and highly available services. Windows Azure provides: Virtualized Computation, Scalable Storage, Automated Management and Rich Developer SDK. Windows Azure Storage allows application...

Tags: Application Developer, Microsoft Corp., Windows Azure, Windows Azure Storage, Microsoft Windows, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2008-12-01

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So where's Microsoft's Live Mesh?

Project name changedIt's Microsoft Live Mess now under Ballmer's leadership.RE: So where's Microsoft's Live Mesh?i hope they don't get rid of or just leave it alone because i really like it. Actually, it works very well.It might be stuck in some pre-release limbo but whats already available to use does...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Live Mesh

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

What's next for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?

So MS is going cloud...Well, well, isn't this interesting. Does MS concede that the era of packaged client software is over? Again, MS is the follower and not the leader, and again, MS is following Google to the clouds. My prediction is that this will be a field day...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp., Azure, server

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

CloudBerry Explorer for Nirvanix 1.0.0.6 (Windows)

CloudBerry Explorer for Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network. CloudBerry Explorer makes managing files on Nirvanix Storage easy. By providing a user interface to Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network CloudBerry lets you manage your files on Azure just as you would on local computer.The Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network SDN is a fully-managed, highly...

Tags: Nirvanix Inc., Microsoft Windows, CloudBerry Lab, SDN, Storage, Networking, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-06

What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search)

What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search)Typo"Business Productivity Online Services, Windows Azure, desktop virtualization, storage Data Protection Manager and identity ser[b]v[/b]ices."Me: I would really work much harder on mobileI think Microsoft is doing the right thing in the Enterprise space. I even think it is a...

Tags: Research & Development, Collaboration, Groupware, Content management, Enterprise software, NOW IT, Microsoft Corp., billion-dollar business, R&D, Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

Microsoft announces its Azure cloud computing pricing

Microsoft announces its Azure cloud computing pricingCompared to Amazon...I compared the prices with Amazon's equivalent, the results are in my blog at http://bit.ly/OT7V8. Anyway, they seem to be approximately the same, which is probably the meaning that we should have associated with being "competitive" all along.Is that a lot or...

Tags: Six Sigma, Pricing, TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Microsoft Windows, Process improvement, cloud computing, Azure, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., pricing strategy

Discussion threads 2009-07-14

Attachment Manager 2.2 (Windows)

Outlook Attachment Manager is a MS Outlook add-in program, it can transparently detach/re-attach attachments and embedded images to/from the Cloud, for example by using the Amazon S3 or Microsoft Azure service. In addition, it can send large attachments (up to 5GB with Amazon S3) through Cloud directly from your email...

Tags: S3 Inc., Microsoft Windows, Attachment, Amazon.com Inc., OutlookCloud, Outlook Attachment Manager, E-mail, Storage, Online Communications, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-06-23

Your Thoughts: How mature are cloud computing services?

Enterprise IT infrastructure & operations professionals have many cloud computing technologies to choose from today, and new solutions seem to appear all the time. What are all these technologies? How do you categorize them? Which are mature and which need a lot of work? Forrester is kicking...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Rackspace lays out its cloud computing roadmap: Think hybrid

Rackspace's Lew Moorman on Wednesday will outline the cloud computing roadmap to customers in San Francisco. The gist: Rackspace will push a hybrid approach that tightly couples dedicated and cloud computing resources. The theory: Customers will begin toggling between hosted data centers and cloud computing resources as standard operating procedure....

Tags: Rackspace, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Ubuntu gets web-based file sync and sharing

Ubuntu gets web-based file sync and sharingWhy?I get why this is a good idea, but why make it Linux-only and then make it more expensive than the likes of DropBox who supports multiple operating systems. It's free for 2G, great, but if you gave me 100G for $10/mo, I...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Channel management, Operating systems, Ubuntu, beta, Linux, Web, DropBox

Discussion threads 2009-05-15

Windows Azure: a very difficult concept explained

Since the announcement of Windows Azure, codenamed "Red Dog" as discovered by my colleague Mary-Jo Foley, at PDC 2008, I have felt an element of doubt hanging over the service, simply because I didn't know enough about it. This post will explain everything you need to know about Azure -...

Tags: Operating System, Server, Microsoft Corp., Service, Windows Azure, Mary-Jo, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Data Centers, Storage, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-05-01

MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Windows Azure Storage Services With John Croft (Level 200)

Windows Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting, and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. The presenter of this webcast covers the data storage options provided by Windows Azure. The presenter highlights the different uses for the different data storage options,...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Data Storage, Webcast, Windows Azure, Microsoft Windows, Storage Management, Storage, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-03-25

Q'n'A: Keeping the conversations flowing

I consider this blog not only to be a public facing view of my work and writings, but a mini-community. A symposium if you will, as I'm sure most of you guys wouldn't mind buying me a pint and sitting down to discuss many-a-topic I write. I...

Tags: Security, Research In Motion Ltd., Surveillance Camera, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-03-24

Red Dog: Can you teach old Windows hounds new tricks?

Red Dog: Can you teach old Windows hounds new tricks?Obviously, Microsoft has a lot of money to invest, and they have nowdecided it is time. Will be interesting to see what they actually create.New tricks for an old dog?No. Just recycling an old one. I see they've retrieved...

Tags: Data centers, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Obviously Microsoft, Red Dog, old-Windows, new trick, Azure

Discussion threads 2009-02-23

Reviewing Windows 7

Reviewing Windows 7Please...Please Murph...Spare us your "review" of anything Microsoft related. You were the one that told us that Windows "doesn't use real threads", so please spare us from giving your uninformed opinion. It was worth less than $0.02.Please stick to OSes that are becoming more irrelevant with...

Tags: Operating systems, WINDOWS USERS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., operating system, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-01-08

New year fast approaching, and so is the next-generation enterprise data warehouse

This has been one of the most pivotal years in the evolution of the enterprise data warehousing EDW market. Every EDW vendor of note has firmly repositioned its go-to-market strategy around the appliance approach, with some also taking tentative steps into what is sure to be a key theme in...

Tags: Appliance, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., I&KM, MPP, Business Intelligence, Databases, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Tools & Techniques, Data Centers, Pricing, Programming Languages, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Web Services, Management, Storage, Hardware, Marketing, Software Development, Software/Web Development, James Kobielus

Blog posts 2008-12-24

Can Microsoft innovate? Should we care?

Microsoft's new Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie, recently said that Microsoft's reactive culture may be the company's greatest liability as an innovator. But we don't need an innovative Microsoft. Simple competence would be improvement enough. Ozzie's comments in an article by the excellent Steven Levy in...

Tags: Innovation, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Leadership, Strategy, Management, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-12-07

Windows Azure Table

This paper describes Windows Azure Table, which is the structured storage provided by the Windows Azure platform. It supports massively scalable tables in the cloud, which can contain billions of entities and terabytes of data. The system will efficiently scale out by automatically scaling to thousands of servers as traffic...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Table, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2008-12-01

Making clouds a move forward

Making clouds a move forwardWindows Azure Is NOT VaporI was able to get a simple data-backed ASP.NET Web forms app installed and running in a Windows Azure instance in less than 15 minutes after testing it with the local (on-premises) Development Storage and Fabric facilities. See http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/azure-storage-services-test-harness.html for more details.As...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, cloud computing, Manufacturing, Data Ownership, Pie-In-The-Sky, Windows Azure

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

News to know: Windows 7, Azure, SAP, Google book scans, RIM

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: A first look at Windows 7's pre-beta PDC release Mary-Jo Foley: Windows 7: What's coming for business users Larry Dignan: Windows 7: Will it...

Tags: Google Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Microsoft Windows 7, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-29