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• Creating a Corporate Data Hub

  The Windows Azure Marketplace has a rich assortment of data and software offerings for you to use – a type of Software as a Service (SaaS) for IT workers, not necessarily for end-users. Among those offerings is the “Data Hub” – a  codename for a Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 26, 2012 8:36 AM by BuckWoody | 1 Comments Filed under: Azure, Azure Use Cases, Business Enablement, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Data

• Windows Azure Use Case: Supplementing Infrastructure

  I’ve explained before that Windows Azure is a Platform as a Service - at its simplest, that means that you write software and Azure runs it for you. But what if you are a shop that normally buys “off the shelf” software, and the only software you write Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 01, 2011 7:22 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Azure, Azure Use Cases, Cloud, Cloud Computing, SQL Azure, Windows Azure

• Big Data and the Cloud - More Hype or a Real Workload?

  Last week Microsoft announced several new offerings for “Big Data” - and since I’m a stickler for definitions, I wanted to make sure I understood what that really means. What is “Big Data”? What size hard drive is that? After all, my laptop has 1TB of Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 18, 2011 7:57 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Azure, Azure Use Cases, Career, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Concepts, Conferences, Data, Data Professional, DBA, Developer, Microsoft, PASS, Policy Based Management, SQL Azure, SQL Server, SQLServer, Storage, Windows Azure

• Rip and Replace or Extend and Embrace?

  As most of you know, I don’t like the term “cloud” very much. It isn’t defined, which means it can be anything. I prefer “distributed computing”, which is more technically accurate and describes what you’re doing Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 13, 2011 5:20 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Application Architecture, Application Fabric, Azure, Azure Use Cases, Best Practices, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Computing, Data, Design, Developer, Development, Windows Azure

• SQL Azure Use Case: Shared Data Hub

  This is one in a series of posts on when and where to use a distributed architecture design in your organization's computing needs. You can find the main post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2011/01/18/windows-azure-and-sql-azure-use-cases.aspx Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 05, 2011 8:10 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Azure, Azure Use Cases, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Concepts, Data, Data Professional, SQL Azure

• Windows Azure Use Case: High-Performance Computing (HPC)

  This is one in a series of posts on when and where to use a distributed architecture design in your organization's computing needs. You can find the main post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2011/01/18/windows-azure-and-sql-azure-use-cases.aspx Read More... Posted Monday, February 28, 2011 8:52 AM by BuckWoody | 1 Comments Filed under: Azure, Azure Use Cases, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Computing, Link Lists, Links, Windows Azure

• Windows Azure Use Case: Hybrid Applications

  This is one in a series of posts on when and where to use a distributed architecture design in your organization's computing needs. You can find the main post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2011/01/18/windows-azure-and-sql-azure-use-cases.aspx Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:44 PM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Azure, Azure Use Cases, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Computing, Concepts, Design, Link Lists, Links, SOA, SQL Azure, Web, Windows Azure

• Windows Azure Use Case: Web Applications

  This is one in a series of posts on when and where to use a distributed architecture design in your organization's computing needs. You can find the main post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2011/01/18/windows-azure-and-sql-azure-use-cases.aspx Read More... Posted Monday, February 14, 2011 10:22 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Azure, Azure Use Cases, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Compute, Computing, Concepts, Link Lists, Links, SOA, SQL Azure, Web, Windows Azure

• Windows Azure Use Case: New Development

  This is one in a series of posts on when and where to use a distributed architecture design in your organization's computing needs. You can find the main post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2011/01/18/windows-azure-and-sql-azure-use-cases.aspx Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 08, 2011 6:46 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Azure, Azure Use Cases, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Link Lists, Links, Windows Azure

• Windows Azure Use Case: Agility

  This is one in a series of posts on when and where to use a distributed architecture design in your organization's computing needs. You can find the main post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2011/01/18/windows-azure-and-sql-azure-use-cases.aspx Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 25, 2011 7:56 AM by BuckWoody | 1 Comments Filed under: Azure, Azure Use Cases, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Link Lists, Links, Windows Azure

• Windows Azure and SQL Azure Use Cases

  The key to effectively leveraging “Cloud Computing” or more accurately, Distributed Computing architectures like Windows and SQL Azure is to implement them where they make the most sense. This is actually good advice for any computing paradigm, Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 18, 2011 8:14 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Azure, Azure Use Cases, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Link Lists, Links, Windows Azure

• Windows Azure Use Case: Elastic Scale

  This is one in a series of posts on when and where to use a distributed architecture design in your organization's computing needs. You can find the main post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2011/01/18/windows-azure-and-sql-azure-use-cases.aspx Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 18, 2011 7:54 AM by BuckWoody | 0 Comments Filed under: Azure, Azure Use Cases, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Link Lists, Links, Windows Azure