I know I’ve talked here about it before, but I do want as many IT Pros and IT Managers as possible to know about the series of webcasts I’m doing entitled “IT Manager Chats with Kevin Remde”. These are so much fun to do, because I get to talk to some people in the business … Continue reading Let’s Chat Business (“Cloudy April”–Part 11)
Often when people think of “the cloud”, they think of web-based applications that are accessed via a browser. “But it’s not just that, is it?”No, it’s not. Services hosted “elsewhere” don’t necessarily need to be fronted by a browser. HTTP is just another protocol. Applications running in native or local code can also take advantage … Continue reading Your Cloud Browser (“Cloudy April”–Part 10)
Whenever I do a talk on “the cloud” or any of the products from Microsoft that involve (or revolve around) it, I always ask the folks in attendance, “What is your biggest concern about ‘the cloud’?” And without a single exception in the dozens of times I’ve done it, the first word I hear is … Continue reading But what about security? (“Cloudy April”–Part 9)
Just last week (March 29) I had the pleasure of speaking to Chris Van Wesep. Chris is a Group Product Manager in the Management & Security Product Group, and as such he is a key person at Microsoft responsible for many of the System Center management tools and vision. As you may be aware, much … Continue reading Was it cloudy at MMS 2011? (“Cloudy April”–Part 8)
What if you could run SQL Server, and get all the power of the best data management platform, but hosted for you in “the cloud”?“You mean like at a hosting provider?”Something like that. Well… something and NOTHING like that. Something like that because yes, you don’t have to buy/house/power/secure/make-highly available the servers that it runs … Continue reading Windows Azure – the SQL! (“Cloudy April” – Part 7)
Have you looked at Windows Azure lately? It was announced a couple of years ago, released just over a year ago, and already it’s the most solid platform-as-a-service out there.You remember PaaS, right? I introduced it back in Part 3 of this series.“Yes, I remember.”Good. I won’t waste your time going into the details of the … Continue reading No thanks. I’ll PaaS. (“Cloudy April” – Part 6)
Disclaimer: Although I work for Microsoft, I don’t have to always agree with what other parts of the company are doing. Okay.. proper disclaimer out of the way. Now…“Uh oh.. you gonna get yourself fired, Kevin?”Well.. if a person can get fired from a company for what I’m about to say, then I didn’t want … Continue reading Those stupid “To the Cloud!” Commercials (“Cloudy April” – Part 5)
(Note to self: Don’t ever do an image search on the word “Sassy” ever again. Ever.)In part 3 you’ll recall that we outlined three delivery methods for Cloud-based services: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Today we’re going to go a little deeper into SaaS.“But Kevin.. I already know what it is.”Bear with me. Even though people … Continue reading Getting SAASy (“Cloudy April” – Part 4)
These are probably not new acronyms to most of you.“Acronyms? I thought you were just a really rotten spelller!”Yeah.. acronyms. SaaS = Software as a Service PaaS = Platform as a Service IaaS = Infrastructure as a Service. These are the three delivery methods that we talk about when considering how to deliver, leverage, or … Continue reading SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.. Oh my! (“Cloudy April” – Part 3)
Is ‘the cloud” making you concerned for your job? And by that, I mean, are you primarily working with a product or technology that may soon be cloudified? “Cloudified?”Okay.. I’m making up words again. But I think you know what I’m talking about. Are you working with a technology that is seeing a big shift … Continue reading The Cloud Ate My Job! (“Cloudy April” – Part 2)
Absolutely Full of I.T. 