What will it cost to run your Virtual Machines in the Cloud? The Solarwinds VM to Cloud Calculator does an inventory of your server, then provides a detailed report at what your VMs would cost to run on Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, and Rackspace Cloud servers.
In this interview of Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie, Senior VP in charge of Windows Azure, he discusses how Windows Azure has always been focused on Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and how it is going to evolve over the next 12 months. Microsoft wants to take some of these concepts that are hard to learn …
This video covers the recent release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android, along with updates to the Windows Azure Toolkits for Windows Phone and iOS.
To solve the question of the choice between Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure, GigaOM proposes a debate between two companies that use these two competing suppliers of Cloud computing services.
There isn’t yet a lot of support for a cloud-deployed search solution, but with Windows Azure, Lucene.Net and a bit of OpenXML, just about any searching requirements can be met. This article suggests a sample implementation to search Windows Azure Storage with Lucene.Net.
During the first day at the Jazoon Conference, David Chappell gave an interesting keynote about the opportunities brought by the Cloud that he defines as a new available platform for software developers. His presentation was good, mixing both general overview information and more technical considerations that could interest software developers.
Cloud computing and platforms like Windows Azure promise to be “the next big thing” in IT. This is certainly true as there are a lot of advantages with cloud computing: computing and storage become an on–demand story that you can use at any time, paying only for its effective usage.
As a happy Windows Azure user you’ve probably been wondering about the internals of Windows Azure. How is provisioning of services happening, how do all components scale seemingly infinite? What happens if my role instance goes down?
