Good morning, all. I interrupt the normal cadence of this blog to bring to you just a little bit of bragging. And a challenge. “Oh great.. what did you do now, Kevin?” This week I’m in Seattle, Washington, attending Microsoft’s bi-annual internal technical training event, “TechReady” (TechReady 14 to be specific.) One of the benefits … Continue reading And now for a little shameless bragging…
For those of you who missed any of these and want to catch up, here is a list that I will keep updated with links to the team’s (Me, Brian Lewis, John Weston, and Matt Hester) posts. And don’t forget to go to https://aka.ms/evals if you want to evaluate any of the foundational software to … Continue reading The Cloud on Your Terms: 30 Part Series
** UPDATE: We’ve rescheduled the Kansas City and Saint Louis events! See you January 10 and 17!Greetings!Well, it’s that time again. It’s time to look at your calendar and look at our list of TechNet Events in the central US to see if you’ll be able to spend the day with us.“A day? I thought … Continue reading TechNet Events are Back!
If you’re living under a rock (or have better things to do) you may have missed the fact that all this month (April 2011) I’ve been creating one post each day having something to do with “the cloud”.“Yeah. I saw that.”And today, as a grand finale, I thought I’d list out titles and link to … Continue reading The Cloudy Summary (“Cloudy April” – Part 30)
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. 