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Windows Azure Is No More

March 25, 2014

Business

cloud computing, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Windows, Satya Nadella, Windows, Windows Azure, ZDNet

As expected Microsoft today announced that its Windows Azure product will be no more after April 3. But don’t worry, it’s simply a name change. In a move that sees the product named more accurately for what it actually…

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AppZero Eases Applications Moving to AWS

August 26, 2013

Business

amazon web services, AppZero, AWS, Microsoft Windows, Santa Clara Convention Center, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Zapp

I wrote recently of the fact that almost every “cloud application migration” vendor had pivoted their messaging all of a sudden away from the fraught area of cloud bursting to more conservative, but understandable and palatable areas like disaster…

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CloudVelocity Releases its Cloud Migration Product – Cue the Rainbows of Cloud migration

July 16, 2013

Business

amazon web services, AWS, cloud computing, CloudVelocity, data center, Infrastructure, linux, Microsoft Windows

Cloudbursting – that oft-told urban myth that sees workloads magically move across infrastructure like wisps of smoke. It’s a provocative image and one that never fails to get the back up of seasoned IT folks who wrangle this stuff…

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AppZero – Another Take on Application Portability

May 3, 2013

Business

AppZero, cloud computing, Greg O'Connor, Microsoft Windows, Portable application, Servers, Virtual application, Virtual machine

If there is one thing that gets enterprise folks riled up, it’s those sitting in the gallery talking about cloud bursting and application portability in general. To the excited blog posts announcing the latest solution to the application portability…

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Microsoft’s Cloud OS Play–A Logical Converged Cloud Offering

January 25, 2013

Business

Azure Services Platform, cloud computing, Microsoft, Microsoft Servers, Microsoft Windows, Windows Azure, Windows Intune, Windows Server

A week or two ago, Microsoft made a slew of announcements all aimed at creating a consistent story around hybrid cloud services. It’s a compelling product launch, and one which, frankly, takes Microsoft which was only a year or…

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Apprenda Launches Hybrid Cloud Support

November 27, 2012

Business

.NET Framework, Apprenda, cloud computing, Microsoft Windows, PaaS, Paul Miller, platform services, Silicon Valley

Today is the first day of the Cloudbeat conference, an event that myself and Paul Miller have, for the second year, built the agenda for. CloudBeat is all about customer case studies and not about vendor announcements, that said…

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WorldDesk and DropBox Make a Truly Virtual Desktop

February 14, 2012

Business

Cloud storage, Desktop virtualization, dropbox, google, Microsoft Windows, Virtual desktop

A few days ago a little battle raged around what the launch of Google’s GDrive product might mean for DropBox. At the time fellow Cloud watcher Alex Williams commented that DropBox has a lot of magic that would save…

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GigaSpaces Brings Java to Azure

September 13, 2011

Business

gigaspaces, GigaSpaces Technologies, Heroku, Java, Java Platform Enterprise Edition, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows

The last few months have seen a mass move from PaaS players to move from single language/framework to support to being all things to all peopple. From PHPFog renaming itself AppFog and adding new languages, to Heroku rolling out…

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