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Larry Franks05/29/13
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Azure Node.js SDK Filters

One of the features of the Windows Azure SDKs that I haven't seen a lot of talk about is retrying operations.

Larry Franks05/28/13
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Pie in the Sky Linklist

Each week, the Pie in the Sky blog suggests links for weekend reading. Here's last week's.

Christopher Taylor05/28/13
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Gartner on Cloud Integration

Gartner’s Massimo Pezzini spoke this morning at the AADI Conference in London on the topic of why integration is even more critical in the ever-expanding world of cloud computing.

Pascal Alma05/28/13
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Archiving Data to AWS Glacier

For archiving your data at AWS you can use AWS Glacier. This service offers cheaper storage than the S3 service but the downside is that your data won’t be accessible right away as it is with S3.

Brian Gracely05/28/13
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The Cloudcast - “Manage the Workload, not the Machine"

Aaron and returning co-host Amy Lewis (@commsninja) talk with Matt Conover (CTO) and Raj (CEO) at Cloud Volumes (@cloudvolumes) about workload . . .

Build A Cloud05/27/13
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Exoscale: A Swiss Cloud Provider with CloudStack

Over the last couple weeks I have been using exoscale, a swiss public cloud provider based on CloudStack.

Eric Genesky05/27/13
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AWS: Value Integrator

Here's a 3-mintue video defining SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS presented by Ben Kepes.

Eric Genesky05/27/13
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Optimizing Amazon CloudSearch

Here's a webinar that describes how to optimize results in search applications that use Amazon CloudSearch.

Eric Genesky05/26/13
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Azure Updates: Hadoop, HTML5/JS, PhoneGap, and more

Scott Guthrie recently blogged about a range of new updates to Azure. These include updates to mobile services, web sites, and HDInsight.

Eric Genesky05/26/13
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Getting Started with AWS: Best Practices

Here's a presentation by Ryan Shuttleworth, a technical evangelist for AWS. He covers how to ensure AWS applications are simple, resilient, and cost effective . . .

Eric Genesky05/25/13
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Java on Azure: Tips, Tricks, Examples

A 1h30m introduction to Java on Azure with a close looka the Java Developer Center for Azure, the Azure SDK for Java, and the Eclipse plugin.

Eric Genesky05/25/13
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xStream Cloud Computing - Security

Brian Gracely discusses the x86 Security reference architecture of the Virtustream xStream Cloud Computing management.

Kevin Remde05/24/13
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Azure Infrastructure Services: Cloud-Based SCCM Distribution Ponit

Those of you who are familiar with System Center 2012, and in particular the Configuration Manager component, are already familiar with the concept of Distribution Points. But for those of you who . . .

Eric Genesky05/24/13
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Installing and Configuring Active Directory Synchronization

Learn how to install and configure Active Directory Synchronization in Office 365, which is a preliminary step for the Office 365 federation and hybrid scenarios.

Eric Berg05/24/13
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AMAG Pharmaceuticals: Going Crazy in the Cloud with Okta

Throw together Nathan McBride, the cloud and a little bit of crazy and you’ve got yourself the IT team at AMAG Pharmaceuticals.

Eric Genesky05/24/13
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Cloud Foundry Architecture

If you have deployed applications on Cloud Foundry, you know how easy it is to push an app, bind services to it, and scale it.

Eric Genesky05/23/13
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AWS Masterclass - EC2

This webinar explains how to get to grips with Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling.

Brian Lewis05/23/13
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Disaster Recovery Planning with WordPress Azure Websites

Hope you you find this a useful tool for your Document Management. If you are looking for a more robust tool and don’t mind the cost– take a look at SharePoint in Office 365.

Paul Miller05/23/13
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Unpicking the Multi-Cloud at GigaOM Structure

Hybrid clouds, in which one public cloud and one private cloud are used together, are becoming increasingly common solutions to a range of business challenges

Christopher Taylor05/23/13
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The Cloud Isn't a Beverly Hills Nose Job at a Tijuana Price

Too many business people see the Cloud as a way of outsourcing IT’s function to a cheaper, newer set of applications.

Seth Proctor05/22/13
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NuoDB Available on AWS Marketplace

Hi everyone, just a quick post to let you know that NuoDB 1.1 is now available on theAWS Marketplace.

Paul Miller05/22/13
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Cloud on Merit, Not by Dictat

Technological advances and shifting business requirements affect Government just as much as they do the enterprise. Fragmentation and siloisation can be used to explain sprawling data centre estates . . .

Paul Bouwer05/22/13
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Understanding the Benefits of Azure Geo-Redundancy in Australia

The deployment regions are paired for geo-redundancy and in Australia are located in the New South Wales and Victoria sub-regions.

Greg Ness05/22/13
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Pretenders and Contenders in the Hybrid Cloud

My hybrid cloud news ticker is starting to go off every day with yet another “hybrid cloud” announcement. How many of them are really about seamless integration of data centers and clouds?

Brian Pince05/21/13
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Windows Azure SDK 2.0 Released

In 2.0, you can now create and delete Windows Azure tables, add/edit/delete table entities from Visual Studio server explorer itself.