Windows Azure and Azure Storage offers a new scalable and robust architecture that borrows much from the common feel of ASP.NET applications but brings plenty of new features as well. This paradigm shift from what has become traditional client-server architecture will offer new options to developers and headaches alike. While "the cloud" is not intended to be the answer for all applications and situations, it can only be a potential answer (another "tool" in the proverbial "tool belt") if you have at minimum a general understanding.  Read more...

With the proliferation of high availability & specialist online Backup companies, do we really have any excuses left to NOT have an offsite backup location, even if it is in the Cloud? Brad things not...  Read more...

Now, Internet-hosted distributed applications with connectivity to internal applications—often referred as Software plus Services (S+S)—are gaining popularity. Organizations are leveraging datacenters hosted by third parties to alleviate concerns about hardware, software, reliability, and scalability. These are just some of the new architecture trends that help you build interoperable applications that scale, reduce capital expenditure, and improve reliability. Cloud computing offers many of these benefits.  Read more...

Web Services has been a hot topic for a number of years now, but what, you may wonder, are these Data Services everyone's talking about lately? As the architecture of Web applications has changed and matured (with the popularity of Rich Internet Applications [RIAs], for example), there has been an increased awareness of the value of exposing raw data, minus any interface or formatting, to any service or application that wants to consume it.  Read more...

Steve Jones ends a "Week in the Clouds" with a poll asking if you might have changed your mind about using a cloud version of SQL Server.  Read more...

Steve Jones ends a "Week in the Clouds" with a poll asking if you might have changed your mind about using a cloud version of SQL Server.  Read more...

Steve Jones ends a "Week in the Clouds" with a poll asking if you might have changed your mind about using a cloud version of SQL Server.  Read more...

Steve Jones ends a "Week in the Clouds" with a poll asking if you might have changed your mind about using a cloud version of SQL Server.  Read more...

Day four of a "Week in the Clouds" has Steve Jones dreaming of some exciting possibilities for SQL Server and cloud computing.  Read more...

Day four of a "Week in the Clouds" has Steve Jones dreaming of some exciting possibilities for SQL Server and cloud computing.  Read more...

Day four of a "Week in the Clouds" has Steve Jones dreaming of some exciting possibilities for SQL Server and cloud computing.  Read more...

Day four of a "Week in the Clouds" has Steve Jones dreaming of some exciting possibilities for SQL Server and cloud computing.  Read more...

Continuing on with a "Week in the Clouds", today Steve Jones discusses some of the challenges of cloud computing.  Read more...

Continuing on with a "Week in the Clouds", today Steve Jones discusses some of the challenges of cloud computing.  Read more...

Continuing on with a "Week in the Clouds", today Steve Jones discusses some of the challenges of cloud computing.  Read more...

Continuing on with a "Week in the Clouds", today Steve Jones discusses some of the challenges of cloud computing.  Read more...

Continuing on with his week in the clouds, Steve Jones looks at how SQL Server might appear in the cloud world.  Read more...

Continuing on with his week in the clouds, Steve Jones looks at how SQL Server might appear in the cloud world.  Read more...

Continuing on with his week in the clouds, Steve Jones looks at how SQL Server might appear in the cloud world.  Read more...

Continuing on with his week in the clouds, Steve Jones looks at how SQL Server might appear in the cloud world.  Read more...

Continuing on with a "Week in the Clouds", today Steve Jones discusses some of the challenges of cloud computing.  Read more...

Continuing on with his week in the clouds, Steve Jones looks at how SQL Server might appear in the cloud world.  Read more...

Steve Jones ends a "Week in the Clouds" with a poll asking if you might have changed your mind about using a cloud version of SQL Server.  Read more...