Using the Windows Azure Cache Preview with SDK 1.7
Update: This has been a fairly popular post. I did another one a couple of months ago which goes into the cache at a deeper level and highlights some different setup gotchas. You can view here the...
View ArticleTricks with IaaS and SQL: Part 1 – Installing SQL Server 2012 VMs using...
This blog post has been a long time coming. I’ve sat on IaaS research since the morning of the 8th June. Truth is I love it. Forget the comparisons with EC2 and the maturity of Windows Azure’s...
View ArticleCopying Azure Blobs from one subscription to another with API 1.7.1
This is a great feature! I read Gaurav Mantri’s excellent blog post on copying blobs from S3 to Azure Storage and realised that this had been the feature we’d been looking for ourselves for a long...
View ArticleThe issues you may have with the Azure co-located cache 1.7 and other caching...
On Tuesday 10th July I did a talk for the UKWAUG on using the new co-located cache. Since we’ve been working caching into our HPC implementation successfully I’ve become a dabhand on the dos and donts...
View ArticleFluent Management update and Wiki
It’s been a long time coming but I’ve finally added a Fluent Management Wiki online. Thankfully Azure Websites makes it very easy to add WordPress instances Anyway, the changelist is immense from...
View ArticleAgile path ways into the Azure Universe – Access Control Service [ACS]
Preparation Tasks and Concepts The main content of this article depends upon an Azure Service called ‘Access Control Service’. To make use of this service, you’ll need to sign up for an Azure Account....
View ArticleA Windows Azure Service Management Client in Java
Recently I worked on a Service Management problem with my friend and colleague Wenming Ye from Microsoft. We looked at how easy it was to construct a Java Service Management API example. The criteria...
View ArticleLinq to Azure using Fluent Management
It’s been a while since I’ve even looked at Fluent Management but I wanted to add some things to it over the last couple of months and HPC, Big Data and general consulting and product development has...
View ArticleAgile path ways into the Azure Universe – Configuring the Azure Emulator to...
Reader Notes This article is pitched at a highly technical audience who are already working with Azure , StoryQ and potentially Selenium / Web Driver. This article primarily builds on a previous...
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