It is now known that a new BuzzWord is emerging on the Internet and is perhaps replacing, or adding, to the old “Cloud Computing”. Big Data. The two terms, which have been the subject of internet media bombardment, are also two terms that are very closely linked to each other, as we want to demonstrate […]
Our EuroCloud Day 2012 event, held on May 23rd at the same time throughout Europe, here in Italy, in the evocative structure of the CUOA foundation of managerial studies in Altavilla Vicentina, proved to be an event of considerable depth, with excellent contents, excellent and illustrious speakers and excellent participation of a quality public. The […]
Lately, there has been a very strong movement and growth of the PaaS (Platform as a Services) ecosystem. Within a couple of months, AWS expanded its roots in the PaaS world by powerfully invading the world of Windows Azure. AWS BeanStalk, a PaaS service born for quite some time now, initially only for the Java […]
Next July 1st will be remembered as the date of the price war between the big names in Cloud Services relating to Storage services. Microsoft Azure: from July 1st, upload costs will be zero Amazon: from July 1, data transfer costs between regions will be zeroed Other companies such as GoGrid, have always offered inbound […]
At the kind invitation of Microsoft, we participated in this very interesting three-day Full Immersion course in the classroom at Microsoft’s premises in Segrate, on the Microsoft Window Azure Cloud Computing platform. The course is part of a new and strong marketing strategy by Microsoft on Azure to introduce Microsoft’s PaaS platform to developers and/or […]
On November 23rd, an event of the Microsoft tour was held in the Byte room of Città della Scienza in Naples to bring to the attention of companies the reality of Azure, Microsoft’s Cloud Computing of the PaaS and SaaS type and soon also IaaS. The first part was presented to us by Fabio Scotti, […]
On February 1st, Microsoft announced the availability of the Azure Cloud Computing platform in 21 countries and declared the testing phase over, therefore no longer free. •Austria • Belgium •Canada • Denmark • Finland • France • Germany • Ireland •India • Italy • Japan • Netherlands • New Zealand • Norway • Portugal •Singapore […]
Yesterday Microsoft published the price-model for its Windows Azure Cloud. What’s interesting about the model is that it appears to be very similar to the Amazon Web Services model. Amazon is asking for $12.5 cents for each hour of a Windows Server base, in contrast to Microsoft has stated that the price will be 12 […]
Microsoft’s Cloud Computing platform, which is of the Application/Platform (Saas/PaaS) type, has an interesting service, SQL Data Service (SDS), represents a cloud-based relational database developed with SQL Server 2008 technology of which I recommend to see the presentation in silverlight. Through SDS it is possible to easily use an RDBMS relational database (such as SQL […]