Category: Video

Video:UP2010 Virtual Cloud Conference – Microsoft’s PaaS Solution

Video:UP2010 Virtual Cloud Conference – Microsoft’s PaaS Solution

| January 28, 2011 | Comments (1)

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

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Video: UP2010 Virtual Cloud Conference – Windows Azure Security Essentials for Technology Decision Makers

Video: UP2010 Virtual Cloud Conference – Windows Azure Security Essentials for Technology Decision Makers

| January 28, 2011 | Comments (1)

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.

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SAP Moves Emissions Reporting to the Cloud

SAP Moves Emissions Reporting to the Cloud

| October 5, 2010 | Comments (0)

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 [...]

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Hilarious: Why Larry Ellison hates the phrase “Cloud Computing”

Hilarious: Why Larry Ellison hates the phrase “Cloud Computing”

| September 23, 2010 | Comments (0)

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

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Hilarious: Why Larry Ellison hates the phrase "Cloud Computing"

Hilarious: Why Larry Ellison hates the phrase "Cloud Computing"

| September 23, 2010 | Comments (0)

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

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Cloud Cover Episode 25 – Deploying and Upgrading

Cloud Cover Episode 25 – Deploying and Upgrading

| September 12, 2010 | Comments (0)

Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. In this episode: Listen as they talk about how you can deploy and manage the services you have running in Windows Azure Discover the various options, and the caveats, for upgrading your services Learn some tips and tricks on how to run your [...]

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MSDN Video: Simulcast Event: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 5 of 7): Building Applications for the Cloud

MSDN Video: Simulcast Event: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 5 of 7): Building Applications for the Cloud

| May 15, 2010 | Comments (0)

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 [...]

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MSDN Video: Simulcast Event: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 4 of 7): SQL Azure

MSDN Video: Simulcast Event: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 4 of 7): SQL Azure

| May 15, 2010 | Comments (0)

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 [...]

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Google releases cloud coding tool

Google releases cloud coding tool

| May 14, 2010 | Comments (0)

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 [...]

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Microsoft harnessing the power of machine learning

Microsoft harnessing the power of machine learning

| May 13, 2010 | Comments (0)

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, [...]

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MSDN Video: Simulcast Event: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 3 of 7): Windows Azure Storage

MSDN Video: Simulcast Event: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 3 of 7): Windows Azure Storage

| May 10, 2010 | Comments (0)

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 [...]

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MSDN Video: Simulcast Event: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 2 of 7): Platform Overview for Developers

MSDN Video: Simulcast Event: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 2 of 7): Platform Overview for Developers

| May 9, 2010 | Comments (1)

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 [...]

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Video: Secure network communications within Windows Azure

Video: Secure network communications within Windows Azure

| May 8, 2010 | Comments (7)

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? » [...]

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MSDN Video: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 1 of 7)

MSDN Video: Get Cloud Ready with Windows Azure (Part 1 of 7)

| May 7, 2010 | Comments (2)

As most of you saw at the Professional Developers Conference, the reaction to Windows Azure has been nothing short of “wow”

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