Mark Newton
This is the starting point for Azure On a different tack, there is lots of talk about Cloud Computing and Microsoft has announced development tools for Azure, their version. The idea with Cloud computing is that you put your application and data on interconnected third party servers in a virtual ‘Cloud’. Your application is shared […]
The options available to you for hosting a web site have probably never been more varied than now; however, the confusing mess of technical terms and marketing hype does not make the task of choosing which of the differing types to select any easier. We will hope to try and clear some of the fog […]
Ray Ozzie, jumping the sinking ship? The internet has been full of articles on the use and viability of ‘Cloud services’ , some suggest that putting everything in the ‘Cloud’ is the answer to all our problems, whilst others, myself included, are doubtful about the real benefits of this technology for a lot of what […]
So you are interested in Cloud Computing? Perhaps your boss has suggested that the company needs to investigate this as it seems to be the hot topic at the moment or perhaps you can see a real benefit in moving your current web application off those servers of yours that will be needing replacing before […]
To many the Cloud is somewhere to store data so that you can share information between users and devices. However for the developers amongst us the Cloud can represent an opportunity to provide new or better solutions to our customers. Whilst for some web based applications a simple Cloud based web hosting solution will be […]
In the previous article I showed how to get started with Microsoft’s Azure and create your first Web Application in the Cloud. This application was nothing more than a basic web site and to really achieve anything with most applications you will soon want to be accessing data held in a database so I thought […]
I guess no computing article these days should be without a look at cloud computing. I like many others are experimenting with putting applications out on the cloud where it is claimed to be held in a virtual ether, replicated across multiple servers in a fully resilient fashion so uptimes of 100% or near can […]
Hosting your web site in the Cloud has the benefits of being easily scalable to deal with even peaky traffic, so if you have a marketing promotion one month or you ‘suffer’ from the ‘Digg’ effect and your site url benefits from a viral campaign, instead of the site failing to deal with the extra […]
Of course the current trendy way to solve the problem of dealing with such traffic is to host your web site in the ‘Cloud’. With a vast number of servers all waiting to serve your web application to your eager audience, surly it is a ‘brain dead’ choice? The reservation I have here is problem […]
High performance and scalable live video streaming via the new Azure Media Services There have been some interesting announcements recently from Microsoft. One is the launch of Azure Media services (http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2012/04/16/announcing-windows-azure-media-services.aspx ) . This will provide a mechanism for streaming live video content via the Cloud. In a previous article in issue 198 I wrote about […]