Posts Tagged ‘Azure’

It was exciting to read Heather Clancy‘s post on ZDNet.com this morning, ‘Perficient’s Cloud Prescription for Healthcare Companies‘ highlighting Perficient’s Cloud & Healthcare expertise.  From Heather’s post, which can be read here [Perficient] was named in July as both the software developer’s U.S. Partner of the Year and also as [Microsoft’s] top provider for delivering healthcare […]

Healthcare IT News’ Erin McCann recently reported that Oregon Health & Science University had to again notify patients that their protected health information had been compromised.  From Erin’s post The Oregon Health & Science University has notified 3,044 patients that their protected health information has been compromised after several residents and physicians-in-training inappropriately used Google […]

Yesterday Microsoft and Oracle announced a cloud based enterprise partnership that they said will help customers embrace cloud computing by providing greater choice and flexibility. From CRN’s Rick Whiting Oracle (NSDQ:ORCL) will certify and support its software products running on Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT)’s Windows Azure cloud platform and Hyper-V virtualization technology under an alliance unveiled by […]

One of the keys to Microsoft’s strategy to make Azure a clear choice for customers of every size is the idea that you get massive scalability to meet demands, but only have to pay for capacity that you’re actually using at any given point in time. Until today, that statement has always come with its […]

I have had a few days to recover from the last 10 days of launches, releases, announcements and presentations from Microsoft and after catching up from the sleep deprivation, I have had an epiphany. Everything you knew about Microsoft has not changed but everything you knew about Microsoft has been turned upside-down. First let’s look […]

I’ll be speaking at a brand new cloud & virtualization conference for IT professionals, systems administrators, developers and consultants – Cloud & Virtualization Live!, December 10-14 in Orlando, FL. http://bit.ly/CVSPEAK25 I’ll be presenting the following sessions: · Developing Mobile Solutions with Azure and Windows Phone · Pushing Data to and from the Cloud with SQL […]

CRN has an article about how Microsoft is diving into the cloud with Windows Azure, partner cloud easy program, Office 365 and a host of other tools and programs.  Perficient’s Microsoft group has seen this first hand as well.  In some ways, it’s like when Microsoft dove into the web browser world and really got […]

My Colleague Martin Sizemore had a great post this morning on Microsoft stepping up to the HIPAA Compliance challenge in the Cloud. In the post, which you can read here Martin talks about Microsoft’s recent announcement that support for HIPAA compliance is now avaliable for Windows Azure in addition to Office 365. From Martin’s post Microsoft […]

Mark Fidelman of harmon.ie wrote an article for Forbes today outlining Microsoft’s current position, in which they are poised for a launch into social business tools and solutions for the enterprise. He argues that Microsoft, with their business technology foothold in the enterprise, is best positioned to become a primary leader in the social business […]

In part one of this series I discussed about Software as a service (Saas) and some findings in that area. This post is about Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). In essence it’s just like the SaaS model instead of buying a server and putting it into your data center and then hire people to administrate […]

This post has moved. New location Future updates to the series will only be posted to the new location. Intro This is part two of the first series of posts I’m writing on developing native mobile apps using the Windows Azure platform. In the first part, I covered the basic setup of my azure storage, […]