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)
Greetings! Welcome to my 31-part series of articles all about this thing called “the cloud”.“Seriously, Kevin? Is this some warped April-Fools joke? Haven’t we heard enough about ‘the cloud’?”I’m going to answer that question with another question: What have you heard? “It means something I use is hosted somewhere else. But honestly… every company out … Continue reading “Cloudy April” Part 1: Full of I.T. with my head in the clouds
How will your IT organization consider using “the cloud”? Is there even an option for you; and if so, what does it look like?Next month we start our new series of events focusing on how IT is being transformed into a dynamic, service-based resource for your business. To do this you need to not just … Continue reading US Central Region TechNet Events are Here!
Just for fun… Check out the game that the Microsoft UK Partner Network folks created. It’s a fun game (built with Silverlight and running in Windows Azure, of course), where you try and get Santa Claus bouncing higher and higher on the cloud. “Is that all?” Yep. It’s simple, but addictive. And it suits me … Continue reading Seasonal, Semi-Addictive, and Definitely Cloud-Worthy
Yeah… I had some fun attending this event, and shooting this video on Saturday morning. A couple of fun things to notice: Ray Ozzie is in the house Not everyone knows how to spell MICROSOFT.
Saw this in a tweet today. Watched the video. All I can say is “Wow!”.";" alt="">Street SlideThis is some more geeky-cool tech from Microsoft Research (Here is the LINK to their article about this.) Can you imagine how cool this will be on a GPS/3G smartphone? …like the Windows Phone 7 I’m going to get … Continue reading Geeky-Cool: Slide on down the Street
Absolutely Full of I.T. 