Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
My Azure session at TEC
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 23, 2009
Just got a note from The Experts Conference organizers that my session on Azure and identity management got into the agenda. Active Directory, User Identity and Azure/BPOS for IT Professionals In this session we will dive into identity management, federation and sign-on process for Windows Azure and Microsoft’s BPOS products such as Exchange Online and [...]
Azure leaving Microsoft
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 13, 2009
It’s official: Microsoft partners will be able to run Windows Azure too. The news was broken by Microsoft’s general manager of business strategy for cloud infrastructure services Doug Hauger this Wednesday as he spoke at the Thomas Weisel 2009 Technology and Telecom Conference in San Francisco. I quote from ENT News: “This is a beautiful [...]
My TechEd Session on Azure apps approved
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 5, 2009
Looks like I will be presenting at Microsoft TechEd US in LA this May. I have just got notified that the session got approved. Will be my first full hour TechEd session (I was only co-presenting at previous TechEds) – so I am really looking forward to the event. Case Study: Migrating Existing Client Applications [...]
Cloud Computing in 2009: IaaS & PaaS
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 1, 2009
- In: Platforms | Predictions
- 5 Comments
Here’s my attempt to put together the list of things I expect to happen to Cloud Computing in 2009 – kind of natural thing to do the fist day of the year, right? Overall, this is going to be a year when cloud computing will start rapidly maturing with competition heating up on the infrastructure/platform [...]
TEC 2009 – The First Big Microsoft Cloud Event of 2009
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: December 17, 2008
TEC 2009 (Las Vegas March 22-25) agenda is almost complete now and it seems to be biggest show since PDC (Professional Developers Conference) last year on which Microsoft and their key partners will talk about Azure, Exchange Online and other “cloud” platforms. Also, while PDC was mainly dev-oriented – this is going to be first [...]
Microsoft so open on datacenters
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: December 10, 2008
Seems that Microsoft is suddenly surprisingly extremely open on how they design and run their datacenters. Not only we have a write up by Michael Manos on their Generation 4 datacenter architecture (and a great concept video), but even more surprisingly James Hamilton is giving us a spreadsheet of their datacenter expense structure! Can you [...]
Exchange Online, Hosted Services, Labs, Hotmail, Live@edu – can you tell the difference?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 14, 2008
Microsoft is producing so much effort in the SaaS space recently that they can get one easily confused. Quickly: can you tell the difference between Microsoft Exchange Online, Exchange Labs, Windows Live Hotmail, Microsoft Live@edu, and Exchange Hosted Services? Fear not. This post will make the distinction crystal clear! First of all: All of them [...]
Microsoft Azure vs Amazon, Google, and VMware
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 29, 2008
- In: Amazon | Google | Microsoft | VMware
- 25 Comments
Now that we had a few days to look at Microsoft’s Windows Azure it is time to compare it with other alternatives on the market. For our comparison we picked solutions from the biggest players in the market and potential to impact the industry in that area: Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google App [...]
Webex Connect vs Microsoft Online Services
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 20, 2008
Bob Ives published an overview of Webex Connect and it looks like SharePoint Online and other soon to be released Microsoft-hosted collaboration tools are going to face pretty tough competition from Cisco. Feature-to-feature both companies are offering a very similar set of technologies: messaging, presence, document sharing, web meetings. So what’s the difference? It looks [...]
Will Live Mesh fail like Groove did?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 14, 2008
As Microsoft is ramping up its cloud story it seems that Live Mesh is starting to be positioned as one of the key elements. For example, now the Mesh framework got renamed to just Live Framework – quite a promotion unless there’s something else added in there. I am quite skeptical about the technology and [...]
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- The Jelastic Spotlight May 25, 2012We are starting something new here on the blog for Fridays. Up until now, we were doing more light-hearted stuff but as we were sitting around talking about the different sweet apps that you, our customers, are deploying, we realized that we should be showcasing the apps and the developers! So, as of today, Fridays [...]
- Remote Access to MySQL in Jelastic: Import/Export Dump Files in a Few Minutes May 24, 2012Recently, we told you about that another cool feature that you have access to in the commercial version of Jelastic, Public IPv4. With a single click you access to a number of cool new capabilities. One of the most important opportunity you get with this feature is the ability to work with your databases remotely and [...]
- The Jelastic Newsletter – May 23, 2012 May 23, 2012Java 7 adoption, Commercial releases in Europe and Russia and Software stack market share. . . The Jelastic newsletter is a weekly round-up of news, how-to’s and contribution opportunities. Here’s what’s happening this week: Commercial Releases in Europe and Russia As we continue to grow and add partners, we are happy to say that, as of yes […]
- We are now available commercially in Europe! May 22, 2012In partnership with dogado, we are now available commercially in Germany The last few weeks have been hectic here at Jelastic! We launched commercially in the US with ServInt; then we did the same in Russian with Rusonyx; and now we have launched commercially in Europe with Germany. Now in Europe Our commercial release with [...]
- Software stacks market share: May 2012 May 21, 2012Every month we share stats on the usage and popularity of different software stacks within Jelastic PaaS with you. This month it’s even more interesting, because the scope of our stats has grown: we have a new hosting partner in Russia, Rusonyx. So, let’s check out the stats on databases, servers and JVMs for May and analyze the differences betwe […]
- Geek Project of the Day May 18, 2012Just in time for the weekend. Here is your geek project of the day. Because sometimes, a regular grill is not enough. We want one. Going to “borrow” a friend’s car and turn it into a grill.
- Jelastic announces the commercial availability of its Java cloud hosting platform with Rusonyx May 17, 2012Rusonyx’s Jelastic offering provides Cloud Java hosting with no lock-in or code changes required PALO ALTO, Ca. – Jelastic, the world’s first standards-based Platform-as-a-Service, today announced its commercial availability in Russia through its partner, Rusonyx, one of Russia’s leading web hosting service providers. Rusonyx is the exclusive provider […]
