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Cloud Computing

Top 5 Things Microsoft Should Fix in Azure

It’s been just over a week since Microsoft has started to offer the commercial subscription of Windows Azure. As a Cloud enthusiast, I quickly signed up for the Introductory Special subscription and downloaded the required tools to deploy my first app to the Cloud. I had access to Windows Azure since PDC08 and I deployed [...]

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Video Tutorial-Your First Cloud App on Windows Azure

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Getting Started with Windows Azure

With Windows Azure’s commercial availability starting from Feb. 1st, I want to provide a quick introduction to Windows Azure Platform. This article will be followed by many more articles that will drill down into the concepts of the Windows Azure Platform. At a high level, Windows Azure Platform has 4 key services in it. The [...]

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Cloud and the Developer

Every time I present at a developer forum or a technical conference, I get asked by the audience on how to get started on the Cloud. The mindset and the perception has been that the Cloud is the next .NET or Java. Unfortunately, some of the well known training institutes and freelance trainers in India [...]

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Cloud and the Consumer – Part I

I am going to start a series of posts around how Cloud can be realized and experienced by consumers. There is a misconception that Cloud is meant only for hardcore technical folks like developers, administrators and IT managers. Though it may not be positioned as Cloud or Software as a Service (SaaS) to consumers, most [...]

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Next on The Cloud9 Show – Data as a Service

Having successfully delivered the first series, ‘Demystifying The Cloud’ on The Cloud9 Show, I am now working on the next series  called ‘Data as a Service’. This series will focus on the concept of Cloud Storage. Unlike the last series, this will have demos and code to explain the concept. I plan to cover storage [...]

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Who Will Win The Cloud Computing Battle in India?

Till now I have discussed various technical aspects of the Cloud. Going forward I will also cover certain business aspects related to the Cloud. In this article, I want to analyze the opportunity for the Cloud vendors in India. We will first take a look at the ecosystem, the opportunity map and then the potential [...]

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Top 10 Myths of Cloud Computing

As we step into the new year of 2010, I want to discuss the top 10 myths of Cloud Computing. Quite a few experts tried to debunk the myths earlier. My attempt is based on what I have seen or heard in my community. The concepts that I am bringing up here cut across IaaS, [...]

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Overview of Amazon Web Services

1. Introducing Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services is one of the early and also the most successful implementations of the Public Cloud. Many well known online properties leverage AWS. Amazon initially started offering a Cloud based Message Queuing service called Amazon Simple Queue Service(SQS). They eventually added services like Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service [...]

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The Anatomy of the Cloud

1. Introduction to Virtualization Virtualization is abstracting the hardware to run virtual instances of multiple guest operating systems on a single host operating system. You can see Virtualization in action by installing Microsoft Virtual PC, VmWare Player or Sun VirtualBox. These are desktop virtualization solutions that let you install and run an OS within the [...]

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