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Cloud pricing: is Azure competitive?
Now that Azure’s pricing model is starting to take shape, we’re starting to see what Microsoft meant when they said Azure would be priced “competitively”. This week, Oakleaf Systems compared Azure to Amazon’s cloud offerings, highlighting costs for developers to gets started on these platforms (Amazon Undercuts Windows Azure Table and SQL Azure Costs with [...]
My development fabric is unraveled
I’m a few days into working with the Azure July CTP, using Steve Marx’s excellent PDC presentation as a bit of a primer. I’m following along with Steve’s presentation, and it was working just fine for a while. I had a working Azure app, using an MVC front-end, and I was reading and writing images [...]
Revenge of the Private Cloud
Back in February, amidst the news about Microsoft‘s new Azure platform, I asked why the concept of Private Clouds seemed to be either dismissed or ignored as a viable Enterprise strategy (see also “PDC Reactions” and “Could Azure be self-hosted?“). Yesterday, I learned that there’s hope, after all. I happened to be in the office [...]
What, exactly, is wrong with “Private Clouds”?
Image via Wikipedia I recently saw an interesting post by Gordon Haff that claims that cloud computing concepts can’t really be applied to enterprises smaller in scale than the Googles, Microsofts, and Amazons of the world. Humbug, I say. I certainly didn’t have that impression when I learned about Azure. I’ll concede that there aren’t [...]
Is your network ready for cloud computing?
One of the most impactful things I saw at CodeMash wasn’t on the schedule. I’d dropped in to check out Jeff Blankenburg‘s presentation on Azure & Windows Live Mesh, but it was clear that the demo gods weren’t about to smile on Jeff that day. The CodeMashers had sucked up the hotel’s WiFi bandwidth like [...]
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