October 2010 - Posts

• Quote of the Day: On Internet Comments

  Congress should pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line. - Andy Grove Read More... Posted Friday, October 29, 2010 6:31 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Quote Of The Day

• iPad Update and Answering Ray Ozzie

  This is an odd post – I’ll say that from the outset. It really combines two topics, and both have to do with the cloud, at least a little. Some time ago I posted that I bought an iPad to demonstrate a cloud application. True, anything that Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 26, 2010 7:27 AM by BuckWoody | 1 Comments Filed under: Rant, Cloud

• Quote of the Day - What sounds good isn't always

  "Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good." - Thomas Sowell Read More... Posted Friday, October 22, 2010 9:31 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Quote Of The Day

• Windows Azure Components

  In a previous post I explained an overview of the storage options you have for Windows Azure . I’d like to pull back a bit today – because Windows Azure is often used as a single term, you might not be aware it actually is composed of three Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 19, 2010 8:08 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Cloud, Azure, Windows Azure, Storage, Concepts, Compute, Application Fabric

• Quote of the Day: On the wisdom of crowds

  No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. - Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Read More... Posted Friday, October 15, 2010 7:03 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Quote Of The Day

• What Role for IT Infrastructure in a Cloud Environment?

  Most companies I deal with are seriously considering a cloud strategy. When you evaluate the benefits of a platform as a service, it makes sense to do that. But some of the folks I talk to are those who buy, build, configure and administer systems like Read More... Posted Thursday, October 14, 2010 7:19 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Career, Book Review, Azure, Cloud Computing

• Which Cloud Are You Talking About?

  In the early days of computing, IT delivered computing using huge mainframes, accepting input from users, crunching the numbers and returning results to a very thin client - just a green-screen terminal. PC's came into the mix, allowing users a local Read More... Posted Monday, October 11, 2010 8:42 AM by BuckWoody | 2 Comments Filed under: Azure, Cloud Computing

• Quote of the Day: On New Challenges

  "I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." Pablo Picasso Read More... Posted Friday, October 08, 2010 7:20 AM by BuckWoody | 1 Comments Filed under: Quote Of The Day

• Which Azure Cloud Storage Model Should I Choose for my Application?

  Most applications have four parts – input, computation, storage and output. I’ll write about all of these over time, but today I want to focus on how to choose the storage part of the equation. This won’t be a full tutorial, full of Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 05, 2010 8:59 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Cloud, Azure, Storage, Application Architecture