Storage and the cloud
In his article Scott provides very positive feedback on the data storage options with www.azure.com. While Scott is careful to provide balance in picking out a number of specific strengths of the other reviewed solutions – Amazon and Google – he certainly makes a strong case of azure. Would depend on what's more important in [...]
Rush to the cloud
Could not agree more with this comment why all this talk about cloud services . I think this was all well underway when we experienced the 'dotbomb' failure in 2000/2001. Current economic issues have nothing to do with IT. This time the tools are better, adoption is greater, the MS/google/ amazon race is driving the suppliers, [...]
Microsoft in the cloud
The announcements around azure (www.azure.com) certainly seem to place MS firmly in the cloud – or should I say with a firm presence both on the ground and in the cloud(s). Not before time. The challenge from the likes of google apps continues to gather momentum. And the economic slow down certainly asks of IT [...]