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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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Oracle and Engine Yard Up a Tree, P-A-A-S-I-N-G

September 27, 2013

Business

amazon-web-service, Cloud Foundry, EngineYard, Heroku, Java, oracle, Platform as a service, Windows Azure

When Engine Yard announced awhile back a strategic investment from Oracle – it kind of felt like a Hail Mary pass. Engine Yard, which a solid and reliable platform, has lost much of its shine as its competitors get…

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Microsoft and AT&T Cozy Up in the Cloud

September 20, 2013

Business

at&t, cloud computing, CloudSigma, google, Microsoft, Virtual private network, VMware, Windows Azure

Interesting news the other day coming out of AT&T and Microsoft as the two announce a plan to allow customers the ability to connect to Azure directly via a private network. According to At&T the service will use a…

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Jaspersoft and Co-Opetition with AWS

September 13, 2013

Business

Asia, AWS, Business intelligence, Cognos, Data Warehousing, Jaspersoft, Redshift, Windows Azure

Last year, when AWS announced its Data Warehousing service, RedShift, there was much interest from the punditry as to what it meant for the existing companies offering similar services built on top of AWS infrastructure. One of those vendors,…

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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 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 and Appfog Power Hybrid .NET

June 6, 2012

Business

.NET Framework, AppFog, Application programming interface, Apprenda, Cloudfoundry, Heroku, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Platform as a service, Quest Software, Sinclair Schuller, Windows Azure

I’ve always had a soft spot for .NET PaaS provider Apprenda, they were one of the very first PaaS providers, their CEO Sinclair Schuller is a thought leader around PaaS and Cloud more generally and they display a laser…

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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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