Microsoft Makes Windows Azure Push

October 26, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor

Microsoft has recently made a strong push into consolidating mind share amongst Cloud Developers with a relaunched Windows Azure Platform developer portal and targeted adverts on LinkedIn and other social networking sites.

Microsoft technical strategist  Steve Marx outlines the  Windows Azure Platform for developers in the following video.

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SaaS Bill of Rights To Be Published

October 9, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor

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The Altimeter Group’s Jeremiah Owyang and Ray Wang will publish a SaaS Customer’s Bill of Rights next week. The Bill Of Rights is a collaborative effort that has input from a veritable who’s who of SaaS providers and thought leaders.

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OnDemand Speed Links 29 September 2009

September 29, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor

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GSA launches Apps.Gov
The General Services Administration has launched the long awaited Apps.Gov site. Intended as a one stop shop for US government agencies keen on getting into the cloud, the site lists vendor provided Social Media, Business, Productivity and IT Services applications.

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Q&A with Rackspace Cloud’s Emil Sayegh

September 22, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor

The Rackspace Cloud

San Antonio based Rackspace is a global web host and cloud provider known for their high end managed hosting and dedicated services. The company delivers managed services to over 16,000 customers from eight data centers worldwide.

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Consoles, Management Tools and Brokers

September 15, 2009
Written by George Reese

The web interfaces of cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) have consistently lagged behind third-party consoles in both user experience and functionality. Third party consoles supported rich meta-data around AWS resources in addition to  integrating CloudWatch and CloudFront support long before the AWS console.

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OnDemand Speed Links 26 August 2009

August 26, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor

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Amazon Rolls Out Virtual Private Cloud
Amazon today introduced its Virtual Private Cloud Service. This service allows customers to connect resources within the AWS Cloud, to resources within their own your own datacenter using encrypted IPsec VPN connections

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