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Cloud Computing and the Code-Based Infrastructure

In an on-premise system, most of us start fulfilling business computing requirements by making decisions around buy or build. If there is a software package that fills the need of the business,...

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Windows Azure Security Review

Current as of 08/01/2011 - Check the Resources listed below for more up-to-date information on this topicBackground:Security for any computing platform involves three primary areas:Principals (users or...

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Rip and Replace or Extend and Embrace?

As most of you know, I don’t like the term “cloud” verymuch. It isn’t defined, which means it can be anything. I prefer “distributedcomputing”, which is more technically accurate and describes what...

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Developing a Cost Model for Cloud Applications

Note - please pay attention to the date of this post. As much as I attempt to make the information below accurate, the nature of distributed computing means that components, units and pricing will...

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Bug-Out Bags and Cloud Architecture Considerations

I served in the U.S. Military for a while, and as part of my training we had to maintain a “Bug-Out Bag”, which was a large duffle-bag full of certain items that we could live on/fight with in an...

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Application Lifecycle Management Overview for Windows Azure

Developing in Windows Azure is at once not that much different from what you’re familiar with in on-premises systems, and different in significant ways. Because of these differences, developers often...

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Pay in the future should make you think in the present

Distributed Computing - and more importantly “-as-a-Service” models of computing have a different cost model. This is something that sounds obvious on the surface but it’s often forgotten during the...

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Book Review (Book 11) - Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform

This is a continuation of the books I challenged myself to read to help my career - one a month, for year. You can read my first book review here, and the entire list is here. The book I chose for...

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Windows Azure – Write, Run or Use Software

Windows Azure is a platform that has you covered, whether you need to write software, run software that is already written, or Install and use “canned” software whether you or someone else wrote it....

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Windows Azure Visio Shapes

Normally when I diagram a solution for a customer, I use whatever they are comfortable with. I do most of my work these days in OneNote, especially when it’s an Architecture Design Session (ADS), since...

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Keeping your options open in a cloud solution

In on-premises solutions we have the full range of options open for a given computing solution – but we don’t always take advantage of them, for multiple reasons. Data goes in a Relational Database...

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High Availability for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS in the Cloud

Outages, natural disasters and unforeseen events have proved that even in a distributed architecture, you need to plan for High Availability (HA). In this entry I'll explain a few considerations for HA...

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How Does the Cloud Change a Systems Architect’s Job?

I know - I said I didn't like the "cloud" term, but my better-phrased "Distributed Systems" moniker just never took off like I had hoped. So I'll stick with the "c" word for now, at least until the...

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How Does the Cloud Change a Database Administrator’s Job?

I recently posted a blog entry on how cloud computing would change the Systems Architect’s role in an organization. In a way, the Systems Architect has the easiest transition to a new way of using...

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How Does the Cloud Change a Developer's Job?

I've recently posted a blog on how cloud computing would change the Systems Architect’s role in an organization, another on how the cloud changes a Database Administrator's job, and the last post dealt...

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