Tag Archives: Cloud

Smart Web Portal in the Cloud

Cars, Bing Map and Smartphone. Johannes Kebeck is writing about such great combination on his blog. “Daimler AG has been marketing the smart fortwo electric drive since the middle of December. When the battery is charged, the car opens a … Continue reading

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Windows Azure’s Pricing Model Discourages Devs, Small-Scale Apps

The death of Silverlight Streaming (a free hosting service provided by Microsoft) made me finally think through the cost of hosting small apps and sites on Windows Azure. Although Azure’s pricing model might make sense for Enterprise scenarios, the math … Continue reading

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Get your Free Ebook “Cloud Computing” from Microsoft

As we already know that all big organizations are shifting towards Cloud Computing and everyone is talking about the cloud, so here to an Industry shift towards cloud is from Microsoft Buisness Resource Center and is providing a free ebook on … Continue reading

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Backup to Windows Azure Storage in 3 Easy Steps

Azure at Cloud Expo Cloud Computing Expo – Azure was in Public Preview for quite some time now. In our previous posts about Windows Azure, we went directly into how to map a network drive to Azure Blob Storage and … Continue reading

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Manage Azure Blob Storage With Ease

After the Gladinet Cloud Desktop 1.4.232 release, it is fairly easy to manage Azure Blob Storage from your Windows Explorer directly. Feature Highlight: (1) Map a Network Drive Letter to the Azure Blob Storage You can map multiple Azure Blob … Continue reading

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Government Mapping solution built with Silverlight 3 and Windows Azure + SQL Azure

Government Mapping solution built with Silverlight 3 and Windows Azure + SQL Azure Almost every single government entity is looking to deliver contextual information on maps, so this reusable framework built by our partner iLink Systems can help deliver a … Continue reading

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Videos of the Windows Azure Sessions at PDC09

Here are the videos of the Windows Azure sessions at PDC09.  Lots of useful content, the sessions were well attended and well received. At the time of this writing, some of the videos are not yet posted but they will … Continue reading

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LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework on top of SQL Azure

from Kevin Hoffman As mentioned in my previous blog post, you don’t get full designer support on SQL Azure within SQL Server Management Studio. In addition, you don’t get designer support for LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework, either. So … Continue reading

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