Archivo de la categoría: Azure

Azure, Cloud computing, Featured, Public Cloud

Microsoft Azure – It’s More Than Just Portability

When people discuss Microsoft Azure, they often think about portability to the cloud. One of the misnomers of the Azure cloud is that you’re just taking your on-prem virtual machines and moving them to the cloud when, in reality, Azure is much more than that. It is about VM portability, but it is also running different platforms in the cloud. It’s using instances which allows users to move, say, a web server to an instance in the Azure cloud so they don’t have to worry about the patching and management of that server from month to month. Instead, the user knows that it’s already taken care of for you. Other benefits include uptime SLAs and back up solutions.

Watch the video below with DJ Ferrara to learn more about the benefits Microsoft Azure has to offer.

 

Microsoft Azure – What are the benefits?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfsobUCjff0

What are your thoughts on Microsoft Azure? Has your organization utilized the platform? Any plans to use Azure in the future? Why or why not?

To hear more from DJ, watch his video blog discussing the pros and cons of different public cloud platforms and when it makes sense to use each. If you’d like to speak with DJ more about the Azure cloud, email us at socialmedia@greenpages.com.

 

Video with DJ Ferrara, Vice President & Enterprise Architect

Azure, Cloud computing, Featured, vCloud Air

Comparing Cloud Platforms: When it Makes Sense to Use Each

Video with DJ Ferrara, Vice President & Enterprise Architect

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9-VJ92yxc

 

In this video, DJ discusses the pros and cons different cloud providers have to offer. When does it make sense to use vCloud Air (note: this was filmed right before VMware announced name change from vCHS)? What about Azure? How about Amazon?

If you’re interested in learning more, read this ebook about the evolution of the corporate IT department.

 

 

 

 

 

Amazon, Amazon AWS, Azure, Cloud Storage, File hosting service, Google, Microsoft, Nirvanix, Storage, Venture Funding

Nirvanix Shutdown: Collateral Damage in Big Players’ Price War?

The sudden shutdown of Nirvanix, an early but recently faltering participant in the “pure-play” Online Storage space dominated by the likes of AWS S3, Microsoft Azure and Google, is in large part a result of downward pressure on prices as the big players continually lower theirs. Amazon, for instance, launched S3 in 2006 and charged $0.15 per gigabyte-month. After many step-wise price cuts S3 is down to $0.095 per gigabyte-month.

Pure online storage is fast becoming the sole province of vendors who either enjoy economies of scale, or who treat their offerings as a loss-leader to get other business (or a combination of both).

Smaller players may have to add value in other ways to survive. Nirvanix was not profitable, and when their latest round of funding came up short it was the last nail in their coffin.

Azure, Big Data, Garantia Data, NoSQL, Redis, Window Azure

Garantia Data Offers First Redis Hosting on Azure

Garantia Data, a provider of in-memory NoSQL cloud services, today announced the availability of its Redis Cloud and Memcached Cloud database hosting services on the Windows Azure cloud platform. Garantia Data’s services will provide thousands of developers who run their applications on Windows Azure with virtually infinite scalability, high availability, high-performance and zero-management in just one click.

Garantia is currently offering its Redis Cloud and Memcached Cloud services free of charge to early adopters in the US-East and US-West Azure regions.

Used by both enterprise developers and cutting-edge start-ups, Redis and Memcached are open source, RAM-based, key-value memory stores that provide significant value in a wide range of important use cases. Garantia Data’s Redis Cloud and Memcached Cloud are reliable and fully-automated services for running Redis and Memcached on the cloud – essentially freeing developers from dealing with nodes, clusters, scaling, data-persistence configuration and failure recovery.

“We are happy to be the first to offer the community a Redis architecture on Windows Azure,” said Ofer Bengal, CEO of Garantia Data. “We have seen great demand among .Net and Windows users for scalable, highly available and fully-automated services for Redis and Memcached. Our Redis Cloud and Memcached Cloud provide exactly the sort functionality they need.”

“We’re very excited to welcome Garantia Data to the Windows Azure ecosystem,” said Rob Craft, Senior Director Cloud Strategy at Microsoft. “Services such as Redis Cloud and Memcached Cloud give customers the production, workload-ready services they can use today to solve real business problems on Windows Azure.”

Redis Cloud scales seamlessly and infinitely, so a Redis dataset can grow to any size while supporting all Redis commands. Memcached Cloud offers a storage engine and full replication capabilities to standard Memcached. Both provide true high-availability, including instant failover with no human intervention. In addition, they run a dataset on multiple CPUs and use advanced techniques to maximize performance for any dataset size.

Amazon AWS, App Status Dashboard, Azure, Google, Outage Alert, Tools

Most Popular: App Status Dashboard of Dashboards

Since we introduced our App Status Dashboards page, it has proven to be our most popular offering. As most of what we offer is news that quickly gets stale that’s not surprising, though it is sort of heartening that something with serious rather than humorous intent is finally edging out our most popular post ever.

How can we make it better? Send any ideas to richard at cloud news daily dot com.


Amazon AWS, AppSpot, Azure, Dashboard, Google, Icloud, Internet Pulse, Joyent, Microsoft, Rackspace, salesforce.com

Introducing Cloud Service Dashboard of Dashboards

We’ve added a one-stop “dashboard of dashboards” that displays all the major cloud service dashboards on one page.

The page contains a “window” for each service status page or dashboard, with live, up-to-date info at a glance. Scroll for specific applications or locations, or click the link to jump to the full status page itself.

We included these services initially:

  • Amazon AWS
  • Google Apps
  • AppSpot
  • Microsoft Azure
  • RackSpace
  • Apple iCloud
  • Salesforce.com
  • Joyent
  • internet Pulse

Have we missed any? If we have leave a comment with the URL and we’ll try to add it.


Amazon AWS, Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services, Azure, Cloud & IT Management, Cloud Storage, CloudBerry Lab, Microsoft Windows, Rackspace, Storage

Cloud Migrator Transfers Files between Amazon S3, Azure, Rackspace

CloudBerry Lab today announced the beta version of its new CloudBerry Cloud Migrator service that allows users to transfer files from one cloud storage to another. The service supports data migration between Amazon S3, Windows Azure Blob Storage, Rackspace Cloud Files and FTP servers.

Cloud Migrator service by CloudBerry Lab is a web application that lets users transfer their files across different cloud storage services without installing any additional software. All copy operations executes inside a cloud and managed through the web interface.

The service allows users to copy files between different locations or accounts within one cloud storage provider as well as between different. It’s a perfect solution to painlessly migrate data from one Amazon S3 bucket to another or from Amazon S3 to Azure Blob Storage or Rackspace Cloud Files and vice versa.

Finally, Cloud Migrator supports FTP so it can also be used to easily copy/move files from an FTP server to any of the supported cloud storage accounts with no need to implement complicated scripts.

In the Cloud Migrator future releases, the new low-cost Glacier storage by Amazon AWS will be added to the list of supported cloud storage accounts.

CloudBerry Cloud Migrator is available at http://sync.cloudberrylab.com/


Azure, Internet Technology, Microsoft Windows, Quest, Tools, Windows Azure

Quest Software Foglight for Windows Azure Monitors Application Performance.

Quest Software today introduced Foglight for Windows Azure Applications, an application performance monitoring (APM) solution available via software-as-a-service (SaaS). Available immediately as a beta, the newest addition to the industry-leading Foglight APM portfolio enables IT administrators to monitor performance and understand what end users are experiencing with Windows Azure-based application.

Foglight for Windows Azure Applications enables enterprises to leverage cloud-based performance monitoring technology for applications built on the Windows Azure platform, and allows IT administrators to gain critical insight as to how end users interact with these applications.