Category: Video
Video:UP2010 Virtual Cloud Conference – Microsoft’s PaaS Solution
Get a tour of the Platform as a Service offering from Microsoft, shared at the Nov 2010 UP2010 virtual cloud event by Niraj Nagrani Director in the SQL Azure team. You will learn of the fundamental building blocks such as compute, non-relational storage, relational storage, identity and access control
Video: UP2010 Virtual Cloud Conference – Windows Azure Security Essentials for Technology Decision Makers
Security is a huge topic in any discussion regarding the public cloud. This session from the Nov 2010 UP2010 virtual cloud event is led by Distinguished Engineer Yousef Khalidi. It provides a terrific walk thru of how to think thru security considerations in general and for the Windows Azure Platform specifically.
SAP Moves Emissions Reporting to the Cloud
SAP has begun the first of what is anticipated to become an ever-growing migration of reporting mechanisms to a cloud platform. With its newly launched version 5.0 of SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand, which reports carbon emissions, the software company is positioning the product at a lower cost and at various scales. SAP is using Amazon’s [...]
Hilarious: Why Larry Ellison hates the phrase “Cloud Computing”
I just found this video on YouTube. My hero Larry Ellison on the absurdity of the phrase “Cloud Computing”. It’s pretty friggin funny… embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt
Hilarious: Why Larry Ellison hates the phrase "Cloud Computing"
I just found this video on YouTube. My hero Larry Ellison on the absurdity of the phrase “Cloud Computing”. It’s pretty friggin funny… embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt
MSDN Video: Simulcast Event: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 5 of 7): Building Applications for the Cloud
The cloud is everywhere and here at Microsoft we’re flying high with our cloud computing release, Windows Azure. As most of you saw at the Professional Developers Conference, the reaction to Windows Azure has been nothing short of “wow” – and based on your feedback, we organized this special, all-day Windows Azure Firestarter event to [...]
MSDN Video: Simulcast Event: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 4 of 7): SQL Azure
The cloud is everywhere and here at Microsoft we’re flying high with our cloud computing release, Windows Azure. As most of you saw at the Professional Developers Conference, the reaction to Windows Azure has been nothing short of “wow” – and based on your feedback, we organized this special, all-day Windows Azure Firestarter event to [...]
Google releases cloud coding tool
Google has released a programming tool to help move its Native Client project–and more broadly, its cloud-computing ambitions–from abstract idea to practical reality. The new Native Client software developer kit, though only a developer preview version, is designed to make it easier for programmers to use the Net giant’s browser-boosting Native Client technology. “The Native [...]
Microsoft harnessing the power of machine learning
Microsoft wants to harness the power of machine learning — the statistically driven computing concepts that animate search engines and recommendation services — and other techniques to reduce power consumption, according to Rick Rashid, the senior vice president overseeing Microsoft Research. Microsoft, of course, is also trying to reduce the power consumed by PCs, servers, [...]
MSDN Video: Simulcast Event: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 3 of 7): Windows Azure Storage
The cloud is everywhere and here at Microsoft we’re flying high with our cloud computing release, Windows Azure. As most of you saw at the Professional Developers Conference, the reaction to Windows Azure has been nothing short of “wow” – and based on your feedback, we organized and recorded this special, all-day Windows Azure Firestarter [...]
MSDN Video: Simulcast Event: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 2 of 7): Platform Overview for Developers
The cloud is everywhere and here at Microsoft we’re flying high with our cloud computing release, Windows Azure. As most of you saw at the Professional Developers Conference, the reaction to Windows Azure has been nothing short of “wow” – and based on your feedback, we organized and recorded this special, all-day Windows Azure Firestarter [...]
Video: Secure network communications within Windows Azure
Charlie Kaufman (from Microsoft), gives us details on how the network communications work and are secure within Windows Azure. Topics: » Why don’t we use IPSec between Compute node and store? » Breakdown of virtualization security in Azure » How do we protect against malicious users doing things like Denial of Service (DoS) attacks? » [...]
MSDN Video: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 1 of 7)
As most of you saw at the Professional Developers Conference, the reaction to Windows Azure has been nothing short of “wow”














