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About CloudyInNashville

I am a Cloud Architect and Consultant. Over several years I have been working with companies to help them design and build .NET based applications for public and private clouds. My focus is the Cloud, Public Clouds and Microsoft's Windows Azure Cloud platform in particular.

Disaster Recovery: Asking the wrong question?

Posted on April 1, 2016 by CloudyInNashville

In my role as an Azure specialist I get asked a lot of questions about Disaster Recovery. IMHO they almost always ask the wrong question. Usually it goes something like “I need Disaster Recovery protection for my data center. I … Continue reading →

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Web and Worker Roles: What do I do now? Part 2

Posted on February 23, 2016 by CloudyInNashville

In my previous blog post in this series I made some recommendations for migrating Cloud Services (Web and Worker Roles) to alternative architectures now that Cloud Services are considered legacy and Microsoft will not be spending any further effort enhancing … Continue reading →

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Web and Worker Roles: What do I do now? Part 1

Posted on February 5, 2016 by CloudyInNashville

This is Part 1 of a Two-part series. See Web and Worker Roles: What do I do now? Part 2 For those of you who may not have noticed PaaS V2 (Azure Service Fabric) was announced a while back. The … Continue reading →

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AzureCon Update

Posted on September 30, 2015 by CloudyInNashville

[Updated 10-1-2015] Today at AzureCon Microsoft announced a whole raft of features.  The announcements can be grouped into three categories. Features that were previously in Preview that have just gone into General Availability Features that have just entered the Public … Continue reading →

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What’s Changed in Azure Over the Past Year?

Posted on September 17, 2015 by CloudyInNashville

A lot has changed in Azure over the past year.  In fact the Microsoft Service Update Page  lists over 100 new features, some small and some (like PaaS V2 and IaaS V2) major. To update the members of my Nashville … Continue reading →

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Recipe for a Successful (Azure) User Group

Posted on May 29, 2015 by CloudyInNashville

Let me start (or rather restart) this blog series with a post that only tangentially has to do with Azure.  It does however relate to starting and running a user group (which I hope will focus on Azure.) I have … Continue reading →

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I’m Baaaack

Posted on May 29, 2015 by CloudyInNashville

Haven’t posted in almost a year, but I promise to post more frequently now. My focus is still the Cloud, Azure and related subjects. Bill Zack

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Microsoft Azure Quick at Codestock

Posted on July 13, 2014 by CloudyInNashville

Last week I presented a Lightning Talk on Microsoft Azure at the Codestock developers conference in Knoxville, Tennessee.  The title of my talk was Microsoft Azure Quick. For those of you who don’t know, a Lightning Talk is where you … Continue reading →

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Podcast: Moving a Windows Azure Virtual Machine

Posted on March 17, 2014 by CloudyInNashville

On March 12, 2014 I was the featured guest on the Azure Podcast Episode 19. Here is a summary of that conversation: As some of you may know I am a Windows Azure Consultant and a Cloud Technical Solutions Specialist … Continue reading →

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Windows Azure Global Bootcamp

Posted on March 17, 2014 by CloudyInNashville

On Saturday, March 29, 2014 we are out to make some records! In April of 2013 we held the first Global Windows Azure Bootcamp at more than 90 locations around the globe! This year we want to again offer up … Continue reading →

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