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Sample Windows Azure Blob VB.NET Code
To easily upload byte arrays to Windows Azure blobs using VB.NET you will need to download the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio. After installing the SDK add a reference in your VB.NET project to...
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Legacy Applications Running on Windows Azure
Many applications running today require access to the NTFS APIs in Windows. A major requirement of getting these applications to run in the cloud is to not break the application dependencies on these...
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Business Opportunity Around the Cloud and Access 2010
Many companies still use Microsoft Access for basic database operations in the office. Access 2010 now connects to SQL Azure which gives perfect opportunity for IT professionals to setup small business...
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Apple’s iCloud uses Windows Azure behind the scenes
This blog post claims that the people at InfiniteApple have discovered that iCloud uses Windows Azure Services for hosting data. It also appears to use Amazon’s cloud. Could this mean that iCloud is...
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The New Windows Azure
Windows Azure was updated this past week. This update includes a new Metro-style admin portal, new types of virtual machines (like Linux), new Azure Web Sites and more. From the Windows Azure Blog it...
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Amazon Cloud Down Again, Windows Azure is More Reliable
Amazon’s cloud is down again, which means that this year Windows Azure has been more reliable than Amazon’s cloud. This fits my theory that while Amazon was innovative at the time for selling it’s...
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MakerShop Website and MVC 4
I’m making a new site meant for Makers to connect with others and market their stuff. On the technical side I’m using MVC 4, which is my first attempt at using MVC for a real project and not just...
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How Do You Generate Business Value to Flow
JD Meier has a new blog post titled Business Value Generation is the New Bottleneck. His piece got me thinking about how all of the new capabilities and re-imagining of IT is opening up new...
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The Value of the Cloud is not Realized by Only Being in the Cloud
I know of a company that was evaluating Microsoft’s Azure platform, but after a major Azure outage earlier in the year they decided to go with Amazon’s cloud platform. Now Amazon just had a major...
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Expanding Profit Margin Through Cloud and Inflation
There’s a neat affect with ad revenues and cloud computing. As long as the web remains competitive in ads and demand doesn’t weaken because of ads in apps instead of ads in web pages, then ads will get...
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