Last August, Microsoft mitigated one of the largest DDoS attacks in history. A few months later, the same attack was also carried out in the Lombardy region.
Recently AWS has opened its very advanced DNS service (AWS Route53) to the purchase and transfer of domains, has activated a file sharing and collaboration service (AWS Zocalo is now called AWS WorkDocs) and today, as could be expected, also given the powerful email messaging tool (AWS SES) it has opened in preview an email […]
I find it very funny to see on the net how people are constantly and often inappropriately talking about cloud computing both positively and negatively. Everyone “shoots” their own opinion by calling themselves an expert on this or that. As the title suggests, this is a new “disastrous” event for cloud computing. And I feel […]
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 […]
On August 7, a lightning storm broke out in Dublin (Ireland) that was able to cause the energy backup systems of the Amazon Web Services and Microsoft BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite) Datacenters located in Ireland to go haywire. In the middle of summer in Dublin an electrical storm knocks out the data system of […]
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, […]
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 […]
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