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Engine Yard on Windows Azure? Yup, You Read that Right

June 28, 2013

Business

azure, Engine Yard, Heroku, Microsoft, netsuite, Open source, Platform as a service, Windows Azure

Lost in the outpouring of interest about last week’s announcements between Oracle and sometime enemies Microsoft, NetSuite and Salesforce was an interesting piece of news – that Engine Yard was going to begin supporting Windows Azure. This is kind…

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SOA Announced API Management for Microsoft Azure

June 4, 2013

Business

Application programming interface, azure, Microsoft, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft SQL Server, SOA Software, Steven Willmott, Windows Azure

Modern applications owe their flexibility and ease of use to the rise of the API economy Essentially the API is the base component that allows applications and data sources to talk to each other. The massive rise in importance…

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Microsoft’s Azure Outage Post Mortem

March 13, 2013

Business

azure, cloud computing, HTTP Secure, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Microsoft, Public key certificate, Secret Store, SSL

A couple of weeks ago Microsoft had one of their worst days and watched as a massive outage took out Azure services globally. The outage lasted about a day and took down a huge number of sites and applications.…

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Microsoft has Massive Azure Outage-Heads Must Roll!

February 22, 2013

Business

azure, cloud computing, data center, Eastern Time Zone, HTTP Secure, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, SSL

The screen shot says it all – as I type Microsoft Azure is suffering from an outage, possibly caused by an expired SSL certificate. Services across the globe are completely down with limited visibility into why and when they…

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Intuit Moves up the Stack for IPP – Drops Native Platform

August 11, 2011

Business

Alex Chriss, azure, cloudcomputing, intuit, Intuit Partner Platform, IPP, PaaS

I’ve been following Intuit’s moves to become a relevant Cloud player for many years now, and was one of the first people to write about the Intuit Partner Platform when it launched almost three years ago. The Internet Partner…

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Greenbutton Nabs Microsoft, Swiftpoint Nabs Costco

July 19, 2011

Business

azure, cloud computing, Costco, greenbutton, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, New Zealand, swiftpoint, Windows Azure

I always like to be able to write about the successes of businesses down in my neck of the woods and today I’ve got a couple of stories to write about. Firstly GreenButton, the company that I’ve called “the…

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On Microsoft and the Lack of Startup Cred

January 18, 2011

Business

Amazon EC2, azure, cloud computing, gmail, Microsoft, Quora, Software as a Service, Y Combinator

The recent domain profiling of Y Combinator startups was interesting reading from a “how far ahead of corporate IT are startups when it comes to cloud services?” question, but also interesting was a look at Microsoft‘s performance among the…

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Automating Private Clouds a Growth Area

August 6, 2010

Business

adaptive computing, automation, azure, Microsoft

As acceptance of the cloud computing concept grows, many companies are using private clouds are an entrance ramp to cloud computing. Companies are seeing this trend, and the the marketplace is divided between big-vendor solutions and smaller players looking…

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Azure Launches Cloud in a Box, But this one might be more than just CloudWash

July 12, 2010

Business

azure, cloud, Dell, Microsoft, PaaS, private cloud

Big news today was the announcement by Microsoft that it is releasing Azure technology to some hardware vendors. The ideas of this is to create a Windows Azure platform appliance that will form (according to Dell, one of the…

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Zuora and Azure Hook Up to Bill the Cloud

June 17, 2010

Strategy

azure, google, Microsoft, zuora

And here was me thinking the cloud was all about altruism – no folks, it’s about money, pure and simple. Saving it at the buy-side, making it at the sell-side. News today from Zuora (see disclosure) that they will join the Microsoft Windows Azure Technology Adoption Program (TAP) as the first on-demand billing and subscription […]

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