Posts Tagged ‘ Microsoft Azure ’

Time to Call BS on Cloud Vendor Lock-In

The only issue more overblown than Cloud Security may be this one. I was reading yet another post on the topic today and felt compelled to write this. The premise the Lock-In Boogeymen are selling is that because of the proprietary APIs and mechanisms that are used in many of the large cloud computing (e.g. IaaS [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 7-12-10

Sorry for the late Monday post. So without further adieu: Google introduced App Inventor, a simple GUI based app builder for Android OS. TechCrunch’s Jason Kincaid takes it for a spin. Mike Loukides from O’Reilly Radar discusses the different philosophies behind Apple and Google as evidenced by App Inventor. I for one don’t think that we’ll [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 7-5-10

Well I hope that everyone enjoyed their holiday. But before I get to the tech and travel news, I must comment on “The Decision”.  Yes, I was among the 10 million people that watched LeBron James rip the heart of his own city when he announced his decision to play for the Miami Heat next [ READ MORE ]

Microsoft Makes Pivot Technology Available

A few weeks ago I wrote about how Microsoft’s Pivot technology, developed in Live Labs, could potentially revitalize hotel search or travel search in general.  Well today Microsoft is using the technology to power Silverlight PivotViewer which is now available for download.  I’ve embedded the following video where Microsoft tries to give examples of how [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 2/29/10

Let’s see what came up: Forrester analyst John Rymer’s take on Oracle’s Cloud strategy. And for a bonus, a slightly different interpretation by fellow Forrester analyst Stefan Reid. Dion Hinchcliffe, ZDnet: The Facebook imperative for enterprise software.  Hinchliffe is great. Longish articles at times, but good insight. Riffing off Benioff’s recent proclamation that enterprise software should look [ READ MORE ]

Red Hat Dreams of Single Cloud API is Simply That

Last week Red Hat’s CTO Brian Stevens introduced a new initiative called Deltacloud that has a very lofty goal of simplifying the process of invoking cloud services via a new unified standard.  It address interoperability which can be an important challenge in cloud computing for ISVs.  Out of the box they have some pretty good [ READ MORE ]

Who’ll Be the First to Offer Cash for Infrastructure?

The other day I responded to a tweet from James Urquhart that prompted an interesting discussion: “Does a successful virtualization strategy take away from the ROI of cloud computing?” <- Interesting. Not enough to avoid cloud, me thinks.“ What that made me start to think about was the underlying value proposition and ROI of cloud computing and [ READ MORE ]

How to Select a Cloud Provider

Geva Perry is starting a series called “The Purpose-Driven Cloud” where it appears that he’s trying to address the aforementioned question by evaluating a number of different attributes that are all technology-centric.  It looks like it should be a worthwhile discussion, although it’s mostly written from a developer’s point of view. But I think his angle [ READ MORE ]

Microsoft Projects Big Things for Azure

According to a recent post by SD Times’ David Worthington, the Azure team is projecting that 50,000 applications will reside in its cloud within three years.  Did anyone expect something different? Everything at Microsoft is big, and if it can’t be big, it can’t be at Microsoft.  The company has over 10 products that have annual [ READ MORE ]

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