Azure Support

There’s been a lot of buzz about the ‘hybrid’ cloud – the blending of on-premise services with cloud based services. CloudKick recently launched  CloudKick  Hybrid  a tool for monitoring cloud and on-premise servers from a single console (see story here), Nimsoft which has a similar monitoring tool was recently acquired by CA for $350m, hosting [...]

Opinions on Azure the likely uptake of Azure appear to be very polarized around the time of its launch. I think it is a given that 2010 will not see a rush to Azure – the inevitable teething issues, plus the unavailability of several key elements of the platf0rm (such as database backup) will be [...]

Reports today suggest that Microsoft will introduce Remote Desktop and Virtual Machine support for Azure in March 2010. This marks a major shift in Azure’s focus, previously Azure was intended to perform all hardware configuration chores from developers. SearchCloudComputing attributes the change to easing the migration pains for existing Windows apps, however resource isolation and [...]

I have to admit I’m really excited about Azure – I love cloud computing, it frees developers from all the IT duties like load balancing, server maintenance etc.The ugly truth is that most developers have absolutely no clue about the IT infrastructure their applications run on. Applications are built on the framework and then dumped [...]

Azure is stuffed with great features promising effortless scale and instant failover and disaster protection, but for me it’s Table Storage which are Azure’s  killer feature. SQL Server and SQL Azure are great products but for a lot (maybe even the vast majority) of cases they are overkill and add an unnecessary overhead and slow [...]