Category Archives: Cloud

Azure at //Build 2016

Posted on April 6, 2016 by

The dust has barely settled on //Build 2016; one, of the two premier annual Microsoft conferences: //Build and Ignite!  For those of you who not aware of it these two conferences morphed from two earlier Microsoft conferences. //Build is the … Continue reading →

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Disaster Recovery: Asking the wrong question?

Posted on April 1, 2016 by

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

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

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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I’m Baaaack

Posted on May 29, 2015 by

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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Windows Azure Web Site–The Other PaaS

Posted on October 27, 2013 by

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 →

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

Posted on February 23, 2013 by

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 →

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