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What is your Azure Maturity Level?
The Azure Maturity Model is based on the Cloud Maturity Model developed by the Open Data Center Alliance. Its purpose is to help you determine where you stand in your ability to adopt the cloud successfully. We have adapted it … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Cloud Computing, IaaS, Microsoft Azure, PaaS, SaaS
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Building a Rational Microsoft Azure Network Architecture
In a previous blog post Is Azure Adoption “Too Easy? I discussed how it is very easy (perhaps too easy) to get into Azure without a well-thought-out network architecture and a good plan. We cannot fault Microsoft for making it … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Cloud, Cloud Computing, IaaS, PaaS, Windows Azure
Tagged Architecture, Automation, Azure, Networking
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The Nashvill 2018 Global Azure Bootcamp is History
On Saturday April 21st we held the Nashville Edition of the 2018 Global Azure Bootcamp. The event was held at Microsoft in Nashville and we had approximately 60 attendees. As you can see from the agenda (above) we had 17 … Continue reading
Azure: What to use When?
On August 17, 2017 I presented on the topic of Azure: What to use When? To the Nashville Microsoft Azure Users Group. For those of you who know me you know that I founded this group four years ago with … Continue reading
Azure at //Build 2016
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
Posted in Application Development, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Event, IaaS, Microsoft Azure, PaaS, Windows Azure
Tagged Azure; //Build;
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Disaster Recovery: Asking the wrong question?
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
Web and Worker Roles: What do I do now? Part 2
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
To Cloud or Not to Cloud Part 3–Beating the Showstoppers
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 Application Development, Architecture, Cloud, Cloud Computing, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Security, SQL Azure, Windows Azure
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To Cloud or Not To Cloud?
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 Architecture, Cloud, Cloud Computing, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Windows Azure
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Windows Azure 2.0 at the New York Code Camp
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 Architecture, Cloud, Cloud Computing, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, SQL Azure, User Groups, Windows Azure
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