Author Archives: CloudyInNashville

Unknown's avatar

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.

Windows Azure in Healthcare

Posted on January 3, 2014 by CloudyInNashville

The Nashville Windows Azure Users Group has been in existence for less than a year, but we have already become a popular meeting place for anyone wanting to learn how to take advantage of Windows Azure or wanting to meet … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Programming the Cloud at the Nashville Bar Camp

Posted on November 4, 2013 by CloudyInNashville

On Saturday, November 2nd 2013 over 200 folks gathered for Nashville’s 2013 Bar Camp. The conference was held in the Un-Conference format where the attendees vote on the sessions to be held during the day. No speaker was guaranteed a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Windows Azure Web Site–The Other PaaS

Posted on October 27, 2013 by CloudyInNashville

Technorati Tags: Windows Azure,Windows Azure Web Sites,Web Sites,User Group Meeting   At the September 2013 meeting of the Nashville Windows Azure Users Group I gave a presentation on Windows Azure Web Sites, The other PaaS.  I was fortunate to have … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud, PaaS, Windows Azure, Windows Azure Web Sites | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

So Long New York, Hello Nashville!

Posted on July 27, 2013 by CloudyInNashville

If you have been wondering why I haven’t posted in a while it is because I have recently relocated to Nashville Tennessee from the New York area for family reasons.  Doing that has consumed a lot of my time; finding … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, User Groups, Windows Azure | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Welcome to Cloudy In Nashville

Posted on July 27, 2013 by CloudyInNashville

This is my first blog post in this new blog.  I recently moved from New York to Nashville. I used to have a blog, Cloudy In New York where I blogged about all things related to Windows Azure.  Continuing to … Continue reading →

Posted in User Groups, Windows Azure | Tagged , | Leave a comment

To Cloud or Not to Cloud Part 3–Beating the Showstoppers

Posted on February 23, 2013 by CloudyInNashville

At a recent meeting of the NYC/NJ Windows Azure Users Group I presented on the subject of Moving Applications to Windows Azure.  At the end of the presentation I had a slide that covered potential Showstoppers that might prevent moving … Continue reading →

Posted in Application Development, Architecture, Cloud, Cloud Computing, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Security, SQL Azure, Windows Azure | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Moving Applications to Windows Azure–A Methodology

Posted on February 22, 2013 by CloudyInNashville

Earlier this week at the NYC/NJ Windows Azure User Group meeting I presented: Moving Applications to Windows Azure, a live version based on my To Cloud or Not To Cloud blog post series. This was a joint meeting of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud, Cloud Computing, Windows Azure | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

To Cloud or Not To Cloud–Part 2

Posted on December 5, 2012 by CloudyInNashville

In a previous post we covered a simple decision flowchart for evaluating applications that you might want to move to ”the Cloud”. We talked about application “fitness” for the Cloud and how to decide which ones in your application portfolio … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

To Cloud or Not To Cloud?

Posted on October 26, 2012 by CloudyInNashville

  That is the question. Right now a lot of companies are struggling with the decision as to how (or if) to take advantage of public Cloud technologies such as those provided by Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services and other … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Cloud, Cloud Computing, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Windows Azure | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Windows Azure 2.0 at the New York Code Camp

Posted on October 4, 2012 by CloudyInNashville

  A few months ago I did a blog post on delivering my Azure 2.0 talk at the Hartford Connecticut Code Camp. With Windows Azure things move fast (Internet time anyone? ) and I recently did another (updated) version for … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Cloud, Cloud Computing, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, SQL Azure, User Groups, Windows Azure | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment