Posts Tagged ‘Azure’

On Wednesday, we hosted a webinar on Windows Azure. During the session, Adetayo Adegoke, a senior solutions architect at Perficient, gave an overview on Azure, which is Microsoft’s secure, standards compliant, rapidly scalable and globally distributed cloud computing offering. It offers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities for a wide […]

Microsoft’s Windows Azure is a secure, standards compliant, scalable cloud computing offering. It provides a simple, comprehensive, and powerful platform for the creation of web applications and services. As an open and flexible cloud platform, it allows organizations to build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of datacenters. You can build applications using your choice of […]

Microsoft recently announced several updates to Windows Azure. You can read about all the details on Scott Guthrie’s blog (ScottGu’s Blog), but there was one item that really caught my attention: Active Directory Application Access Enhancements. This feature (or collection of features) was previewed over the summer and is supposed to be available by the […]

Perficient’s Microsoft team is excited to announce the promotion of David Greve to National Cloud Enablement Director! Perficient’s Microsoft team is more that just Microsoft’s 2013 US Partner of the Year award winner, we are Microsoft cloud computing experts. David’s role in the organization will ensure that Perficient continues to lead with the cloud when […]

What is Sitecore Azure? In simple words, it is your Sitecore implementation running in Windows Azure, a popular cloud computing platform from Microsoft. Sitecore Azure provides development and deployment tools to support Sitecore CMS and DMS(Digital Marketing System)  in Windows Azure. Windows Azure: As you may already know, Windows Azure services are available both as […]

Edit: Part 2 (setup) : Part 3 (Mahout) The internet is becoming increasingly personalized.  It has transitioned from indexing massive wells of information to delivering personalized information, or recommendations based on complex searches.  Evidence of this is seen in Google’s Knowledge graph, Amazon, the Bing engine, Facebook friends and twitter recommending people you may be interesting in […]

On Wednesday, we hosted a webinar on Office 365 and identity management. During the webinar, Shalini Pasupneti, a Solution Architect in Perficient’s Microsoft infrastructure practice, shared her Office 365 acumen specific to identity management between on-premise and the cloud. Shalini explained what constitutes identity management and single sign on in Office 365, and delved into […]

Thanks to @lizasisler for telling  me about this post.  ZDNet has an article about large organizations using PaaS and that it’s not just a small company kind of thing.  The interesting point they make deeper in the article is that PaaS can be used for more than just hosting a site or set of functionality […]

CRN has a longish article about Gartner’s ranking (Note: you need to pay for the research) of Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) vendors.  Microsoft made the the list as a visionary.  Now before any Microsoft fans complain about Azure not being in the leadership quadrant, remember that Azure started out as a Platform as a Service […]

Microsoft has an interesting set of research they published for their partners on Successful Cloud Partners.  The respected research firm IDC created and published this information for Microsoft.  I’m not going to bore you with what it takes to be a successful partner.  I do want to highlight a couple stats on cloud growth.  Doubtless […]

On Wednesday we hosted a webinar on BI in the Cloud with Windows Azure and Office 365.  During the webinar Andy Tegethoff, a Microsoft BI architect in Perficient’s dedicated Microsoft BI practice, shared key point on taking advantage of the cost savings, scalability and speed of implementation benefits offered by Cloud based implementations. Andy offered […]

In my most recent article at CMSWire, I had the opportunity to make some wild and crazy predictions for the future of Microsoft’s SharePoint platform.  While not claiming access to any crystal ball or inside information, I did make every attempt to ground my possibilities in the realm of actual, factual reality.  One of those predictions […]