Posts Tagged ‘cloud’

If you qualify Microsoft will donate Office 365 to your organization. Don’t you think you could benefit from Exchange and SharePoint as well as Office applications? Wouldn’t it be great if you could simplify IT administration and work towards your goals as a nonprofit? Well I believe that is what Microsoft is trying to do […]

I’m going to use the theme of an earlier post (Windows Azure SQL Database what’s missing?) and ask the same question on another service offered on Windows Azure. The reason I chose these offerings specifically is because I really like them as a developer. Not having to deal with configuring infrastructure and being able to […]

Obviously there’s a lot of excitement going on with the upcoming release of Xbox One.  Ryan Duclos has a new post out about it’s potential outside of gaming and entertainment which frankly is where my mind lies as well.  In my portal world, I seem to spend about 50% of my time with healthcare clients […]

I recently blogged on interesting avenues in which you can use Windows Azure to more easily move software that was originally on-premise to the cloud.  No sooner do I finish that than I read an article from @sharepointrich on SharePoint vs Sitecore.  In his post, Rich mentioned that Sitecore Azure runs on Windows Azure.  That […]

The latest from Microsoft concerning the next release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM (2013) scheduled to be released in October 2013. This documentation (Release Preview Guide) contains the latest information as of this morning from Microsoft about what will be contained in the release. As you can see above it contacts the key these me have been […]

Will Xbox One be used in the workplace, is a question I ask myself as I see information come across the wire. The simple answer is Yes it will have value in the workplace in my opinion. At first glance it may not have a place in the enterprise, though I believe it will be […]

You may hear this from almost any vendor whose original software was built for an on-premise installation.  “Look, we are on the cloud. Our product has an image on Amazon AWS. It takes just minutes to provision this pre-existing image and you are off and running.” I love the concept of that. I love the […]

Thanks to @lizasisler for pointing me to this. ZDNet has an article about Microsoft’s recent announcement raising the upper limit on file size from 250 MB to 2 Gig.  They now also allow you to upload .exe files.  At it’s face, that’s a pretty easy thing to report but I think that raising the limit […]

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 […]

Ever since cloud came onto the scene, I’ve loved the concept but have always been a bit put off by high availability.  You can’t simply install your on premise software into an image and think your are done.   Quite simply, high availability techniques on premise do not translate perfectly into rich and growing tools […]

Being primarily a developer, I would prefer not having to manage infrastructure. With SQL Database I don’t have too. SQL Database provides most of the features I need when working with a relational database. If SQL Database doesn’t suit your needs, you can have SQL Server running in a VM within Windows Azure. Though again […]

So continuing on my SkyDrive and SkyDrive Pro kick, I want to focus today on why having an API in SkyDrive gives extra value and opens up many opportunities.  Here’s a short list. BoxCryptor BoxCryptor provides secure encryption for your files.  They work with all the major vendors (SkyDrive, Google Drive, Box, and Dropbox)  This […]