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What is your Azure Maturity Level?
Figure 1 – The Azure Maturity Model 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 … Continue reading
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So Long New York, Hello Nashville!
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
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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
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Moving Applications to Windows Azure–A Methodology
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
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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
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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
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Introducing the New Windows Azure at the Hartford Code Camp
On Saturday June 23rd I presented an updated version of my Windows Azure 2.0 Platform Overview at the Hartford Code Camp. Since there were quite a few major Windows Azure announcements on June 7th this was a major update of … Continue reading
Posted in Application Development, Architecture, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Event, IaaS, Linux, PaaS, User Groups, Windows Azure
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Windows Azure 2.0 – IaaS and two flavors of PaaS
Last week Microsoft announced what can arguably be called Windows Azure 2.0 (Although Microsoft has refrained from using that term. ) This diagram from the MSDN Library summarizes the new structure of Windows Azure (for a larger view and more … Continue reading
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I am Presenting Patterns for Cloud Computing at Cloud Expo June 11-14 in New York
I was not originally scheduled to present my Patterns for Cloud Computing talk at Cloud Expo again this year (having done it for the last two years) but they had a last-minute cancellation and asked me to do it again. … Continue reading
Software as a Service Development Life Cycle and the Cloud
Last October I co-authored a white paper on the subject of the Software as a Service Development Life Cycle (SaaS DLC). It was published at InfoQ.com. InfoQ (Information Queue) is: “an independent online community focused on change and innovation in … Continue reading
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