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05-19-2009 2:31 PM

Amazon EC2 new features: Monitoring, Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balance

Received an email from Amazon today announcing some new features for their EC2 offering: We are excited to announce the public beta of several new features for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2): Amazon CloudWatch, a web service for monitoring...
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04-03-2009 9:01 AM

Amazon release Elastic MapReduce Beta

Amazon released the beta version of Elastic MapReduce today. Amazon Elastic MapReduce automatically spins up a Hadoop implementation of the MapReduce framework on Amazon EC2 instances, sub-dividing the data in a job flow into smaller chunks so that they...
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03-28-2009 7:40 AM

Windows Azure and Amazon AWS Comparison

During my past few session talking about Windows Azure, the topic of Azure vs. Amazon will always pop up during the Q&A session and I hope to give my personal opinion on the difference I can see from both offerings. This is not an official comparison...
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03-27-2009 10:29 AM

Steve Ballmer’s Diagram on Microsoft Cloud Future

(Credit: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/steve-ballmer-maps-microsofts-cloud-y-future/ ) Steve Ballmer met up with Saul Hansell from NYTimes and tried to show what’s Microsoft’s cloud future is. Very interesting read.It’s interesting to note...
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03-22-2009 5:04 PM

Full Trust under Hosting Roles in Windows Azure

(Abstracted from: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2009/03/18/hosting-roles-under-net-full-trust.aspx ) Windows Azure now offers the option of running the code in your Web and worker roles under full trust.  This unlocks a number of compelling...
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03-22-2009 5:02 PM

PHP on Windows Azure

Since Windows Azure can now support Native Code and FastCGI, the folks @ the product team has come up with some sample guide on how to run 3rd party programming language like PHP on Azure through the use of IIS FastCGI. The full guide can be found here...
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03-22-2009 4:58 PM

Azure Development Storage

For those of you who have installed Windows Azure SDK that comes with Cloud Storage Dev Service (Storage Cloud on your Desktop for you to do offline testing), you will wonder how those test data are kept. The development storage makes use of SQL Express...
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03-22-2009 4:57 PM

Windows Azure Deployment Stuck in Initializing Stage

If you have deployed an application onto Windows Azure and it is stuck in the Initializing Stage: The most likely reason is because you are running an older version of Windows Azure SDK. The current version is the Jan CTP which can be located here: http...
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03-21-2009 11:46 PM

Windows Azure Blob Storage

For those of you folks who are interested to host your files (blob) on Windows Azure Storage, you can view this screen cast on Channel9: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/smarx/Windows-Azure-Blob-Storage/ which explains how to send/receive a blob onto Windows...
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03-20-2009 11:47 PM

SQL Data Services getting a nice makeover!

Watch these 2 blog: SQL Data Services Team blog and the Data Platform Insider Blog if you are interested to know the major revamp on SQL Data Services which they are releasing in MIX.
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03-19-2009 11:46 PM

Windows Azure Platform New Release!

The Azure team just released an updated version of Azure Tools for Visual Studio and SDK + Windows Azure SDK alone: Install both the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio and SDK: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=128752 Install the Windows Azure...
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12-25-2008 11:48 PM

How to start developing on Microsoft Windows Azure – cloud computing?

At PDC 2008, Microsoft unveil it’s answer to the cloud computing phenomena. Want to know more? Check out the official Microsoft site: http://www.microsoft.com/azure/windowsazure.mspx So to get started, you will need the following software: 1. Visual Studio...
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